Example sentences of "not [conj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The complexity I am concerned with is not that supposed intrinsic property of the text which politically motivated critics allegedly distort ( in biased readings ) and impartial critics transparently represent ( in long readings ) . |
| 2 | Not if involves this weekend . |
| 3 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
| 4 | The question is not whether to develop ever-better weapons , but how much to spend on doing it . |
| 5 | On the other hand , public authorities do not usually commit illegal acts deliberately , and if an atmosphere of opinion were created in which compensation for illegality were seen as being simply compensation for loss and not as carrying any stigma of fault or as being designed to perform the function of deterring illegal conduct , public authorities might be able to put the chance of an award out of their mind in deciding the applicant 's case the second time round . |
| 6 | Consider the following final sentences : ( a ) It is tempting to see the Boer War not as ending British Imperialism but as turning its energy inwards . |
| 7 | Kashi was directly in point , but the judgments in that case were treated as statements of the then settled practice and not as declaring any restriction upon the powers of the court . |
| 8 | The date of the World Veterans ' Championships in Turku , Finland , is July 18–28 , and not as reported last month . |
| 9 | A women quoted in Ethel Elderton 's 1914 study declared that she 'd ‘ rather swallow the druggist 's shop and the man i n't than have another kid ’ . |