Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Many of the limitations appear not as abrupt cut-off points , distinguishing what we can do from what we ca n't , but as limitations of rate .
2 The intelligentsia are blamed — or praised — for instilling in the working class the conviction that the solution to their problems lay not in economic reform but political revolution .
3 Seek not after new light for the searching into the private records of God … the event is registered in heaven , and we can expect no other certain notice of it , but that it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared by the Father of mercies . ’
4 Boulton and Swartzentruber urge the acceptance of a common explanation for both phenomena , arguing that contextual cues and explicit occasion setters act not by direct association with other events but by modulating the influence of CS-US associations .
5 That we look not for detailed application of single techniques in a piecemeal fashion , but rather that we look for the general developments from which we can build school specific approaches which translate the experience into usable school practice .
6 Eliot 's sympathies lie not with urban industrialism of ‘ half-dead mill towns of southern New Hampshire and Massachusetts ’ but with humanized rural landscape which ‘ has been moulded by numerous generations of one race , and … which … in turn has modified the race to its own character .
7 The lanky West Indians rely not on lateral movement but on speed and bounce , as to England 's Malcolm and numerous others like him , who do not give the ball enough air in which to swing .
8 It is precisely in confused situations , after all , as travellers on the London Underground know , that people need clear maps , and the complexities of modern civilisation call not for literary difficulty but for literary clarity .
9 We do not in scientific experience move from an external world of things to an abstract world of ideas ; we always move within a single world of quantitative ideas .
10 So during an election the pollsters work not with random sampling but with ‘ quota sampling ’ .
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