Example sentences of "[vb base] not [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Alternative responses to the early stages of the National Curriculum build not from rigid hierarchies of tasks , but from pedagogical principles flexibly applied to respond to different individuals and groups , and based on an understanding of broad developmental principles and their diverse expression in individual children 's work.6 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The dark fine-grained rocks lie not in horizontal layers like all those above , but are twisted and buckled and riven with veins of pink granite . |
| 9 | The internal rhymes however operate not between even lines but between odd and even , 1 and 2 , 3 and 4 , and so on . |
| 10 | They talk not of rural matters ( except of the possibilities of old barn conversions ) , but of stocks , shares , investments , and insurance . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nations are , he says , the basis of the State , and national struggles derive not from social classes but from historical entities called nations . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Many of our most difficult cases are those where buildings belong not to private owners but to institutions or government organizations . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Logic suggests that 16 should be the age of consent for this conduct , too , but the CLRC took the view that young men of 16 and 17 need protection from this kind of behaviour , whereas they do not from other kinds of sexual contact . |
| 17 | So during an election the pollsters work not with random sampling but with ‘ quota sampling ’ . |