Example sentences of "[vb past] not [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was that the most innovative proposal in the Criminal Justice Bill presented to Parliament on 10 November 1971 stemmed not from the Tory manifesto , nor from Crime Has No Boundaries , but from an official committee chaired by a Labour life-peer . |
| 2 | Second , there was feeling , the word used not in the conventional sense , but to describe a much less consciously formulated process of appreciation and subjective valuation . |
| 3 | It became evident in the course of analysing the submissions that a majority of those responding to the question objected not to the underlying principle but to the proposed time scale of 2–3 days . |
| 4 | The conception of language that Saussure developed is that of a social phenomenon , realized not in the individual act of speaking , but ‘ only by virtue of a sort of contract signed by the members of a community ’ ( Saussure 1974 : 14 ) . |
| 5 | Other more idiosyncratic constructs might include ‘ ambitious ’ and ‘ not prepared to trample on colleagues ’ or , in the case of a response to a particular colour in a painting , ‘ warm ’ opposed not by the conventional ‘ cold ’ but by the more idiosyncratic ‘ clinical ’ . |
| 6 | The inspiration for his second name came not from the famous missionary and explorer , but the street in Sydney where his parents ' college had been situated . |
| 7 | This was when the need to live together came not from the older generation , but from the child 's own family . |
| 8 | In the 18 years 1798–1815 inclusive , for each million tons sold there were 0.62 explosions and approximately 11 deaths ; in 1817–1834 inclusive the cost was 0.68 explosions , a 10 per cent increase , but with the loss of only 8.7 lives : for 1839–1844 , this had fallen further to 6.5 lives , But the three periods are not easily comparable ; the new production came not from the old collieries described but from new and ever deeper ones to the south and east made accessible after 1815 by steam-and-gravity operated railways . |
| 9 | Chris Smith , Labour 's Shadow Environment Secretary believed the country 's problem came not from the last few weeks , but the previous 13 years . |
| 10 | He turned not to the developing rage for eclecticism , but to the French Renaissance style of the Second Empire . |
| 11 | Fourth , the cries in Balinese dance seemed to Artaud to have a cosmic power and communicated not through the differentiated and ‘ shadow ’ realm of meaning , but , directly , through impact . |
| 12 | This figure was painted in the same syrupy pastel shades as the rest of the crucifix , but when Zen tapped it the head resounded not with the dull thud of plaster but with a light metallic ring |
| 13 | I meant not in the same way . |
| 14 | fell not for the two or three women |
| 15 | The key lay not in the direct transfer of power into the hands of workers on the factory floor but the administration of industry by a ‘ workers ’ state' in their interests . |
| 16 | The merit of the Record of Achievement movement lay not in the graded test profile therefore , which proved impractical . |
| 17 | He did not in the simplest sense romanticise fact but used it as a way of making his readers see a complex and various world . |
| 18 | We did n't , we did n't on the first request . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ If he does n't select and stalk his victim , and obviously he did n't in the last three cases , he 'd normally have to expect a long wait . |
| 20 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 21 | Culturally , too , there were signs that Europe was beginning to be receptive again , as she had not since the sixteenth century . |
| 22 | He had n't on the one occasion he 'd been there — in fact they 'd treated him rather badly , although he did n't like to admit as much . |
| 23 | Extraordinarily , it ended not with the usual ‘ Vote Labour ’ or even ‘ Vote Kinnock ’ , but merely ‘ Kinnock ’ . |
| 24 | Dr Neil , cradling him in his arms for a moment before handing him to McAllister to care for , wondered not for the first time on such occasions whether he had done the baby a favour by enabling him to live . |