Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] " 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 | Given the above assumptions none of these portfolios apart from M can exist as they are all sub-optimal , being dominated not only by combinations of M and the risk-free asset but also by other portfolios on the efficient frontier itself . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It may be that the drummings by the males have served to communicate not only where each one of them is , but what mood they are in . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | One result of this difference of reference is that it is possible to construct sentences which will be analytic or contradictory on the one interpretation but not on the other : ( 11 ) Nikolai offered us the message decoded but it was not decoded when he offered it to us 4.2 One curious feature about these adjectives is that they somehow seem to modify not only the noun which they accompany but simultaneously the verb as well ; if this is a genuine observation it will be surprising on general grounds , since it would be decidedly abnormal in syntax for one element to simultaneously qualify two different items . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The whole spreading fortress was surrounded not just by a moat , but by a deep artificial lake . |
| 12 | The other blackest , other blackest book is on next week , when we shall see Freud , erm psychoanalysing not Woodrow Wilson , but Moses . |
| 13 | These implications involve not John the Baptist , but a much more elusive figure , whom later Christian tradition has been decidedly reluctant to accommodate . |
| 14 | First are simple systems which involve not more than three or four variables and can be handled by relatively simple techniques , including regression models and partial differential equations although finite difference methods may increase in the future . |
| 15 | A few large authorities have created these posts , which involve not merely the operation and maintenance of audio-visual equipment and other educational technology , but also the preparation and production of audio-visual materials and the in-service training of teaching staff in the use of the equipment . |
| 16 | On economic development , we have failed to pursue the policies of partnership between Government and industry which are commonplace elsewhere in Europe and which involve not only management but trade unions and workers ' representatives in a much more positive way than anything that has happened under this Government . |
| 17 | For example , changes in the Earth 's climate involve not only winds and clouds in the atmosphere , but also the interactive effect of the biosphere , ocean currents , human influences on atmospheric chemistry , the Earth 's orbital characteristics , the reflective properties of the planet , and the distribution of water between atmosphere , hydrosphere and cryosphere ’ . |
| 18 | Such a service could act not only as a mediator between users and official agencies , but also deal with those aspects of heroin use that these agencies are unable or unwilling to resolve . |
| 19 | The fiduciary duties which a director owes to his company are founded on the simple concept that a director must act not only honestly , but in the interests of his company and not in his own interest . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is a moving story that leaves one marvelling not only at the bravery of Middleton himself but that fate had brought so many courageous men together in the one crew . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Its appeal , however , lies not in its fragrant bouquet but in its potency : some teenagers call it ‘ liquid crack ’ . |
| 25 | Dexter 's interest lies not in gang warfare , but in the character of Peter Flood . |
| 26 | Its importance lies not in its detail , which is highly confusing and often contradictory , but in its broad outline . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The danger , however , lies not only in swallowing false generalizations , or in forgetting how far the realities of later life are shaped by social pressures which may be quite new or open to future change . |
| 29 | Behind this privileging of popular culture lies not only an identification with the oppressed masses , but also a sense that Latin-American reality is radically different from that of the developed , industrial West , as well as a search for an identity whose roots are to be found in Latin America itself . |
| 30 | The importance of Bakhtin 's method lies not simply in the formal identification of a genre or a subgenre or a chronotope , but also in the connection which he establishes between internal generic form and external history . |