Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The responsibility for that lies not with the west , but with the CIS itself . |
| 2 | The dynamic force for educational change this time around ( in contrast to the sixties and seventies ? ) lies not within the profession but is social and political and , in the latter sense , is enshrined in the Education Reform Acts of 1986 and 1988 in particular . |
| 3 | The deviance lies not in the act itself but is a consequence of the application by ‘ moral entrepreneurs ’ of rules and sanctions to the offender . |
| 4 | Eventually the ground of objectivity lies not in the past , in the nature of early members of the series or in our early grasp of the rule , but in the present behaviour of our linguistic or mathematical community . |
| 5 | time and again the Ministerial contribution to penal policy-making … lies not in the Minister 's bringing in his own fresh policy ideas , but in his operating creatively and with political drive upon ideas , proposals , reports , etc. , that are , so to speak , already to hand , often within the department but sometimes in the surrounding world of penal thought . |
| 6 | The chief danger from the resurgence of the far right in Western Europe lies not in the likelihood of its achieving any real influence , but in the reactions to it of centre right parties . |
| 7 | The utility of a bank loan lies not in the money itself , of course , but in the goods which can be purchased with it . |
| 8 | Salvation lies not in the thrust |
| 9 | The validity of critical theory lies not in the adoption of a method , vindicated by epistemology , but in the enlightenment that is successful in generating a political practice that moves towards emancipation , the liberation of human beings from domination . |
| 10 | However , for the historian the problem lies not in the absence of data , but rather in the bulk of the material available to him . |
| 11 | The important distinction between both dollar markets lies not in the nature of deposits or types of loan granted but in the fact that euro-dollar banking is not subject to US domestic banking regulations . |
| 12 | The first method — each bell unique but each ringing everywhere — means that the ‘ message ’ of the bell lies in its specific sound ; in the second , the message lies not in the bell , but in the way it is wired up . |
| 13 | Where goods are not durable , the mischief lies not in the fact that they ceased to perform adequately but rather that , at the date of supply , they did not have the capacity to endure . |
| 14 | In custodial terms , even a successful simulation exercise does no more than transfer the operational persona of an historic early machine to a currently supportable platform ( typically a 486-based PC ) which will itself be duly subject to generational obsolescence : the potential of the technique lies not in the immortality of current hardware but in the prospect of machine-independent software . |
| 15 | This time the difficulty lies not in the term ‘ professional ’ but in the term ‘ development ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’ |
| 17 | One is led to conclude from all this that despite some tactical ‘ victories ’ here and there , the British point of view with respect to policy in the EEC has not on the whole prevailed , any more than has its influence over the development of the institutional framework of the Community . |
| 18 | That has now decided that it will have one meeting of it 's council a year which will be it 's A G M , it has not for the moment elected an executive committee . |
| 19 | It is , however , a presumption that may be more easily displaced in family cases particularly those involving children where it has not in the past been usual practice to award costs against an unsuccessful party . |
| 20 | Perhaps the rage and common decency of the British people will vent itself in the near future where it has not in the past and finally get this Government out and replace it with a more caring one . |
| 21 | That is why the arms-for-Iraq case has caused such interest at Westminster , even if it has not in the rest of the country . |
| 22 | Yup , this is the old ‘ cultural crossover ’ in first gear , a barrage of noise which flinches not in the face of a Panzer tank . |
| 23 | That the latter seems to be chosen overwhelmingly testifies not to the existence of coercion , but to careful selection procedures for placing persons in corporate positions coupled with successful methods of persuading them that their interests and the corporation 's interests happily coincide — or at least , that that is the most sensible , pragmatic way of looking at it . |
| 24 | Finally , the authors advance the widely held view that thrombosis contributes not to the initiation of the process but to its progression . |
| 25 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 26 | This ‘ difference ’ refers not to the difference in the law of the actual topic under study ( for that is to confuse the weakness in the technique with the whole rational for undertaking a comparative approach — if the law is not different why compare ? ) . |
| 27 | The phrase damnatio memoriae ( formal condemnation of an emperor following his death ) refers not to the repealing of the acts of an unpopular emperor but to the destruction of his images and the elimination of his name from inscriptions . |
| 28 | It follows that there is a close , but quite unexplored , relation between discourse deixis and mention or quotation ; thus in the following example ( from Lyons , 1977a : 667 ) : ( 91 ) A : That 's a rhinoceros B : Spell it for me it refers not to the referent , the beast itself , but to the word rhinoceros . |
| 29 | The " public interest " is a value judgment , and the ethical impact of the Act depends not on the law of libel , but on the values of the press . |
| 30 | The creation of an effective school depends not on the application of some well-honed formulae nor on the opportunities provided by legislation . |