Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The greatest single expenditure on a Nonconformist chapel came not from the Congregationalists but from the Baptists and not in England but in Scotland . |
2 | In many ways the stimulus for this came not from the miners but from the wool and worsted textile workers who fought against further wage reductions in 1925 . |
3 | The initial impetus for the rethink came not from the officials but from Sir Stafford Cripps in the summer of 1946 . |
4 | The wood for the hedge arrived not on the backs of the hedge-builders but in the boot of their Ford Cortina . |
5 | But the jobs in the new mechanised washeries went not to the women they displaced but to men . |
6 | The main significance of the circle lay not in the views of its members but in the viciousness of the government 's response to them . |
7 | Before the Appellate Committee Mr. Newman however relied on certain additional points which had apparently been raised by him before the Divisional Court , but which the court did not in the circumstances find it necessary to consider in its judgment . |
8 | It was held that the exemption clause did not in the circumstances pass the test of reasonableness and that therefore their sellers could not rely upon it to limit their liability . |
9 | They did not in the measures involving the five guillotines which I introduced . |
10 | Furthermore the court 's alternative conclusion that the profit arose in or derived from the places where these assets were licensed erroneously presupposes that the rights in question had a fixed situs outside Hong Kong whence profits accrued not to the sub-licensees but to the taxpayer . |