Example sentences of "[verb] not [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The key here lies not with personal rivalries , as administrative historians would have us believe . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The peace of mind that they produce however is won not without some costs . |
| 6 | Many of the limitations appear not as abrupt cut-off points , distinguishing what we can do from what we ca n't , but as limitations of rate . |
| 7 | Williams , Textbook of Criminal Law , 2nd edn , Stevens & Sons , 1983 , 764 , criticised Pitham : if a butler invites the maid to join him in stealing the Duke 's silver when he has found the key to the safe , surely he has not at that time appropriated the silver . |
| 8 | The government has not at this stage , legislated in this area , but I understand in their next White Paper , they probably will take away the ceiling that presently exists , so that a rich offender could pay a lot more for his fine than er a person of average means . |
| 9 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 10 | But the return to opera has not by any means been a search for a lost past . |
| 11 | For these parts of the country the evidence on earnings would seem to justify Adam Smith 's observation of 1776 : " the high price of provisions during these ten years past has not in many parts of the kingdom been accompanied with any sensible rise in the money price of labour " . |
| 12 | This has not in any way curtailed enthusiasm for the principle that good design is based upon utility among its acolytes in London 's Design Centre or the Boilerhouse project of the Victoria and Albert Museum , London , where beauty through ergonomics may still be an avowed aim . |
| 13 | In this respect it is interesting to note that the new location of the interposed colon has not in any way altered the inherent motility characteristics of that segment . |
| 14 | He has to learn that God is a living God now , as well as in the middle ages ; to learn to trust not in antique precedents , but in eternal laws : to learn that his tenants , just because they are children of God , are not to be kept children , but developed and educated into sons . |
| 15 | ‘ And that 's assuming the machine is programmed not to double back along the same path . |
| 16 | Strangely enough these stemmed not from any hostility towards Doctor Who the concept all three were thoroughly supportive of the format — only from reservations Wilson and Newman had about the way Verity Lambert and David Whitaker were interpreting their prodigy . |
| 17 | Doorways and walls and even the chapel belfry are adorned with dates and inscriptions relating not to national events and national heroes but to local ‘ statesmen ’ of past generations . |
| 18 | Alternative responses to the early stages of the National Curriculum build not from rigid hierarchies of tasks , but from pedagogical principles flexibly applied to respond to different individuals and groups , and based on an understanding of broad developmental principles and their diverse expression in individual children 's work.6 |
| 19 | She could hear the rush of water , but it seemed to come not from one point but from all around her . |
| 20 | Cavaillès developed these ideas into a theory of science as such , which , he argued , changed not through empirical discovery but through the theoretical reworking of its own concepts in the ‘ pure ’ sciences . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't think there 's anybody who 's worked here for a time who has n't at some time felt like crying , or who has n't actually cried or felt really down . |
| 22 | Honestly , though , who out there has n't at several junctions been reduced by sleeplessness , exhaustion and sheer frustration into staring over the heads of your babies at the man who fathered them , and thinking what in hell 's name am I doing with this person ? |
| 23 | But it has n't in other jurisdictions such as in the US , and parts of the Commonwealth or Europe , ’ said . |
| 24 | Paul Mellon : The book has n't in any way curtailed my privacy because I still have the same life ; I still have people to answer the telephone ; I still have a private airplane and my travel plans are unannounced ; and I lead my own life . |
| 25 | He is free born and trembles not at priestly threats or the papal curse … |
| 26 | Michael Wishart recollects him saying , ‘ Please stay , I ca n't cry all night , ’ his request reflecting not on sexual need , for he never touched Wishart , but on a recurrent despair . |
| 27 | The intelligentsia are blamed — or praised — for instilling in the working class the conviction that the solution to their problems lay not in economic reform but political revolution . |
| 28 | Much of the writing on education and the structure of knowledge refers not to higher education but to the schools , and in particular to the concept of general education at the secondary level . |
| 29 | He argued that enterprise zones should be established in which detailed planning controls would cease to exist , certain legal obligations on employers such as employment protection legislation would no longer apply , various taxes would not be levied and the overall management of zones would be undertaken not by local authorities but by some other agency . |
| 30 | These differences are better explained not by that kind of analogy , but by a recognition of the complex history of the text within the history of an ancient tribe — a history that is sometimes romanticized , sometimes idealized , and in which past and present are sometimes confusingly mixed . |