Example sentences of "[to-vb] [not/n't] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As there was no suitable textbook , he and another schoolmaster in Rugby decided to write not one , but two , and he also wrote The Mathematics of Physics for Biologists , who often find the mathematical aspects of Physics rather difficult . |
| 2 | That scene , as Golding has often told , was the first he conceived of , and he invented the rest of the book with the conclusion already in mind ; and it tells of a frightened boy ‘ tensed for more terrors ’ who staggers to his feet to find not his tormentors but an officer in a white-topped cap : |
| 3 | We compare them in order to see not what each is like but in what respects they are like each other . |
| 4 | But the slip dresses in the catwalk picture do not come cheap and to achieve this daring look you need to buy not one , but two dresses ( not for the faint-hearted , being virtually see-through ) making a total retail cost of £522 . |
| 5 | I know they refer to do n't they ? |
| 6 | there 's Fred then and Hipner and they all like being cuddled to do n't they ? lovely Does n't he look different to his other parts . |
| 7 | Well we know who to talk to do n't we ? |
| 8 | to talk to do n't she ? |
| 9 | And you like to do n't you . |
| 10 | I was on winning to do n't I ? |
| 11 | I really need to do n't I ? |
| 12 | For example , substance P can be used to control not its own synthesis but some other pathway , just as a thermostat could be used to switch on the television instead of the boiler . |
| 13 | It is , I can assure you , a rare event in this establishment to have not one but two newcomers with such a qualification . |
| 14 | We 've been to have n't we ? |
| 15 | I have indeed , it 's serendipity we 've got to have n't we ? |
| 16 | Well they 've got to have n't they ? |
| 17 | Well you 've got to have n't you ? |
| 18 | Is he quite it course it 's something you got ta got ta get used to have n't you really ? |
| 19 | Oh Yeah I 've bloody got to have n't I . |
| 20 | Quine on the other hand takes the evidence of one 's senses to concern not what is internal to the observer but what is external to him , that is to say the presence of certain ( public ) stimuli ( Quine , 1975a , p. 73 ) . |
| 21 | When we set out to tell other people the truth by saying things , what we actually do is to say not what we believe , but what we believe we believe — which , as Freud and others have taught us , is n't always the same thing . |