Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For true freedom lies not in holding , but in letting go ; not in receiving , but in giving . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | One 's reason for doubt lies not merely in the way selection is made : it is simply that those selected have to be very independent indeed to withstand or divert the direction pushed by permanent staff , all of whom seem already to be behaving with unwonted circumspection . |
| 34 | The main conclusion which this section and the preceding one allow is that the true importance of intention in trusts lies not in the internal interpretation of the meaning or the details of a bequest , but in construction , in the ability to construe a trust on the basis of the testator 's intention , and to use facts rather than words to do so . |
| 35 | Yet , the answer to the drought and related problems lies not with the worthy , necessary and spatchcocked aid to Ethiopia but with a positive response to Brandt . |
| 36 | The survival value of this act lies not with the individual but with its hive community . |
| 37 | The solution to this problem lies not in legislation but in effective screening of potential surrogate mothers . |
| 38 | From this perspective , the remedy lies not so much in providing personal help as in attempting to reconcile the activities of women and the values of society more effectively . |
| 39 | The charm of this village lies not only in the pleasing situation , but in being quite unspoilt by modern buildings , and in still retaining a genuine ‘ olde worlde ’ atmosphere . |
| 40 | The most convincing way to interpret Sinhalese perceptions of the colonial courts lies not in the judicial proceedings of Dutch or Kandyan times , but in the cultural precedent set by perceptions of the gods and spirits of popular Buddhism . |
| 41 | The power of the passage lies not in mots justes but in the evocation of ideas at once old and new , familiar in outline but strongly redefined in context : like ‘ stocks and stones ’ . |
| 42 | But since Cassius 's ‘ The fault lies not in our stars , but in ourselves ’ we have found it hard to take external circumstances as the sole cause of terrible events . |
| 43 | In fact , a most significant area for dealing with the problem , if not in some cases accounting for it altogether , is to realise a major part lies not outside ourselves ( in them and their attitudes ) , but with me ( in me and my attitudes — in my inner reactions , habits of mind , prejudices and habitual behaviour given certain threatening circumstances ) . |
| 44 | And the feminist folklinguistic discussion of logic does seem to imply that difference lies not only in what women say , but in the way they say it . |
| 45 | However , the power of critical thought lies not in any aspiration towards ‘ absolute truth ’ ( for which Horkheimer criticizes bourgeois methods ) but in its merging of the experience and action of the thinker and the categories available to consciousness . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | This concentration on christology is of the very essence of Barth 's method , but the greatness of his theological achievement lies not simply in the method and form of the whole , but in the way in which he succeeded by this means in re-integrating and casting quite fresh light on all the great leading themes of classical orthodox belief . |
| 48 | If we adopt this standpoint authority lies not with teachers but with those who define society 's expectation of schools and of the teachers who work in them . |
| 49 | The second and more general reason lies not in the particular ways in which human beings may have evolved , but simply in the fact that they have evolved , and by natural selection . |
| 50 | As this agenda spreads to other sections of the press , to radio and to television , it produces a ‘ self-enforcing conformity ’ whose importance ‘ lies not in the nuances of attitude taken on different items on the political agenda , but rather in the common agreement on that agenda itself … ’ . |
| 51 | In its defence the computer points out that the problem lies not in its answer but in the question it was asked in the first place . |
| 52 | The significance of this lies not only in the fact that these are all writers who themselves adopted the ancient conception of the rule of law . |
| 53 | The importance of television in US politics , it should be stressed , lies not so much in the paid media of political advertising as in the free media of news broadcasts . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | The structural problem lies not in the overall placing , which is finely judged , but in an occasional lapse into spasmodic ( Latin American ? ) rubato . |
| 56 | The characteristic contribution of the senior civil servant lies not so much in the originality and imagination he or she may display in thinking up new policies — these can be a positive nuisance without the ability to convince and lead those , often outside the service , who will have to put them into effect — but the skills to recognize promising new ideas and the opportunities to develop them , and to exploit the opportunities when they occur . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | The difference lies not in ideology , nor in what they have to offer for exchange , but in their unequal vulnerability to the disapproval of the United States , the IMF and the World Bank . |
| 59 | The complexity of [ 8 ] lies not in clause structure , but in noun phrase structure ( in this case it is the noun phrases that are italicised ) . |
| 60 | 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 . |