Example sentences of "[v-ing] not [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henceforth I shall take life as it comes , looking not to the future … |
| 2 | The inside of each binding is a compacted mass of yellowed fatty tissue in which whorls and furling can be seen , looking not unlike the surface of the cerebral cortex . |
| 3 | Miss Bedwelty 's place was a slightly shabby but tidy yard laid round a gravelled square , with a large indoor school — looking not unlike the refrigerator warehouse — looming behind . |
| 4 | There also lay embedded in the system the inequality of paying not for the job but for the qualifications : degrees received a year 's extra increment and as a result earnings differentials rose . |
| 5 | I felt what was happening was we were going not in the direction of addition , but of total change . |
| 6 | Once out of sight it speeded up , heading not for the crematorium but back to the mortuary . |
| 7 | ‘ We are aiming not at the elaboration of a few but at the erection of many temples or houses of our Lord ’ and therefore ‘ cheapness in the construction of each is indispensable to success ’ and Gothic chapels need not be expensive . |
| 8 | This is what has made some people think that in this work the distinction between good and bad is simply arbitrary , residing not in the nature of the characters but in the needs of the plot . |
| 9 | There were not matters arising not on the agenda . |
| 10 | And as he drives away , he 's thinking not about the assertiveness of a petty official , but about the horizon . |
| 11 | His benevolent brown eyes are looking at the floor to Shirley 's left , about five feet beyond her , and he appears to be thinking not about the flute as a career , but about the problems and opportunities of kitchen floor tiling . |