Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skyline is dominated not by spires , but pylons . |
| 2 | But Thursday morning 's meeting was dominated not by Law but by Baldwin . |
| 3 | The room , in consequence , is dominated not by its furniture but by its structural features — walls , floor , and ceiling ; windows , doors , and fireplace . |
| 4 | Secondly , and far more important , the main factor in most men 's standard of living was not what they could earn but what they could produce , and here conditions were dominated not by economic relationships with other men but by something far more basic , the annual and unpredictable variations in the weather and the effects which this would have on the harvest . |
| 5 | The event was dominated not by the man but by a team of ladies all from the City of Derry , they were Ann Wallace , Claire Hughes and Vivienne Houston and their professional from Cill Dara was Gerry Burke . |
| 6 | A welcoming party of six walked down to the shore as the boating party disembarked not without difficulty ; Johnson , after his six or seven hours on the Atlantic , found the rocks ‘ irregularly broken , and a false step would have been very mischievous ’ . |
| 7 | And it was as she hesitated , thinking of Liam , touched as so often , and usually at the wrong moment , by the silence and sadness of him which so troubled her , wondering if a sugar stick would lighten it , that she felt herself suddenly surrounded not by the usual ebb and flow of the market day crowd but by something much more purposeful . |
| 8 | When we include uncertainty , er , we ought to acknowledge that farmers may behave not as profit , profit maximizers erm , but as profit satisfiers , and that 's reflected in their , in their risk-aversion . |
| 9 | This produces a hypsometric curve which shows the elevations of those regions lying between the continental platforms and the ocean basins and suggests that the true break between the continents and oceans lies not at present sea level but some 200 m or so lower . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The survival value of this act lies not with the individual but with its hive community . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The key here lies not with personal rivalries , as administrative historians would have us believe . |
| 14 | Does he realise that the real potential danger to the Union of Scotland with Britain lies not with the separatists but with his Government 's refusal to listen to the voice of the people of Scotland ? |
| 15 | The responsibility for that lies not with the west , but with the CIS itself . |
| 16 | Is the hon. Member aware that the companies argue that responsibility lies not with them but with their contractors ? |
| 17 | The new frontier for firms like BP , Statoil , Amoco and Pennzoil lies not on land but under the Caspian Sea . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | The dynamic force for educational change this time around ( in contrast to the sixties and seventies ? ) lies not within the profession but is social and political and , in the latter sense , is enshrined in the Education Reform Acts of 1986 and 1988 in particular . |
| 20 | The chief danger from the resurgence of the far right in Western Europe lies not in the likelihood of its achieving any real influence , but in the reactions to it of centre right parties . |
| 21 | For Eliot in this poem the only way to banish endless debate lies not in accepting dogma , but in fleeing from speculation to Sweeney in his bath . |
| 22 | Its appeal , however , lies not in its fragrant bouquet but in its potency : some teenagers call it ‘ liquid crack ’ . |
| 23 | Dexter 's interest lies not in gang warfare , but in the character of Peter Flood . |
| 24 | Its importance lies not in its detail , which is highly confusing and often contradictory , but in its broad outline . |
| 25 | For true freedom lies not in holding , but in letting go ; not in receiving , but in giving . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The solution to this problem lies not in legislation but in effective screening of potential surrogate mothers . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |