Example sentences of "[verb] not [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the sword , but all by the extremity of famine , which they themselves had wrought . |
| 2 | There is room for organising in a non-party political way , and for the creation of umbrella organisations which bring together gay men or people with AIDS , representing not any attempt at service delivery , but a demand for government action . |
| 3 | Yet the urge to press on , paradoxically , could lead to questioning becoming not more but less effective and therefore a somewhat inefficient use of the time available . |
| 4 | That lease stipulates that the building occupy not more than half the lot , but the garden-topped garage brings the footprint to 90% . |
| 5 | No , I think sometimes it 's forgotten not all that many , you know , these remarks about us not being there . |
| 6 | Cos you 're going there because your own business has not any more ! |
| 7 | When general it ordains a standard , which however has not more but less authority than the particular choice , since it depends on a generalization about everyone 's reactions in a recurring situation , which is as vulnerable to exceptions as any other generalization . |
| 8 | Maybe we Scots and Irish have paid a high price for our long memories , but who in Scotland or Ireland has not some attitude to the Great Hunger , or the Clearances , or just to a vague morass of names , Culloden and Robert the Bruce and Rebel Songs ? |
| 9 | With a fixed exchange rate , has not this country badly lost competitiveness ? |
| 10 | But in that this is the case , has not another problem appeared ? |
| 11 | To those who urged the perennial claims of the virtues of community living and quoted Ecclesiastes 4:10 " Woe to him who is alone when he falls ; for he has not another to help him up " , Rolle answered : they do not define " alone " as being " without God " but understand it to mean " without company " . |
| 12 | Wigan , going for their 20th successive victory at St Helens tomorrow , have the opposite problem , playing so well individually and collectively that their coach , John Monie , has not enough places , especially with Martin Dermott and Steve Hampson fit again , to satisfy demand . |
| 13 | It 's nothing that I hear , say not another car |
| 14 | That is the situation where the relief is most likely to be needed and if it excluded not much is left . |
| 15 | And with a fabulous climate of around 250 days of sun a year , tempered by refreshing sea breezes , this southern shore has become a paradise for those who want not more from a holiday than relaxation or sport or a combination of the two . |
| 16 | She has n't many other pleasures . |
| 17 | So why has n't such behaviour been recorded before ? |
| 18 | Has n't that campaign been going for |
| 19 | ‘ You were being used , or has n't that dawned on you yet ? |
| 20 | You know , it has n't all got to happen on a Sunday . |
| 21 | It has n't all been smooth running of course , I mean working in a parliament with eighty separate national political delegations , working in t nine languages , I have to admit we 've made the odd slip . |
| 22 | Jean has n't much time — and I think I might do it quite well . ’ |
| 23 | The last time we met he had just bought a new boat , having taken up sailing in his spare time ( but he has n't much of that ) . |
| 24 | But he has n't much of a choice . |
| 25 | She really has n't much choice , there 's the glorified schoolmarm ; there 's the brave little woman who tries to be a good wife and housewife , and I daresay mother , as well , and makes a point of her pretty clothes ; and there 's the bluestocking , the eccentric and frump , the mathematic 's dean who does n't know which side her tea-cup is chipped . |
| 26 | The front bit has n't much blood in it , but the two side bits when they fill up with blood and they start to stretch , it 's like blowing up a balloon . |
| 27 | ‘ After all , Master Taplow has n't much time left , he 's to die at two this afternoon . |
| 28 | No , we , we 're looking at individual cases still , and , indeed they will be reviewed as ind individual cases in the future , with the Health Authority clearly recognizing that it has n't much of a responsibilities on them . |
| 29 | For has n't this war been of immense gain to Bush and Major ? |
| 30 | ‘ Has n't this door been locked ever since I put that coat up ? ’ |