Example sentences of "[pn reflx] not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , of course , there is one step beyond that which most people would find an even greater challenge : to widen the circle so that we see ourselves not only as one part of one human family , but of the family of all life on Earth . |
| 2 | This did not lead him to question the principle of majority decisions ; but it did lead him to pay attention to the social , cultural and economic conditions in which the will of all , or the will of the majority , would be more rather than less likely to coincide with " the general will " , by which Rousseau meant what all of us would will if we thought of ourselves not as private individuals but as citizens identifying ourselves with the good of the community . |
| 3 | Because only in this way we regard ourselves not merely as a variant of a human prototype but as a being with its own irreplaceable essence . |
| 4 | As Minton was fond of saying , ‘ Do n't possess anything , because if you do it will end up possessing you , ’ he himself not surprisingly felt uncomfortable in this Home Beautiful and , never really liking the place , was to move again after only two years . |
| 5 | If Fumaroli fears for the future of French traditions , if he worries that his students will one day no longer be reading Montaigne and Proust , he should address himself not just to Mr Lang , but also to Mr Berlusconi and Mr Murdoch and Mr Hersant . |
| 6 | He seemed to be always looking at himself not literally , but trying to see what effect he was making . |
| 7 | Layton 's ebullience was on a par with Ezra Pound 's ‘ showmanship ’ , and Leonard now found himself not so very far from where the great revolutionary poet ( of Imagism , Vortism etc. ) was actually incarcerated . |
| 8 | He could make love by the hour , but he went the whole way himself not more often than twice a week … |
| 9 | He was delighted to find himself not merely a Lord 24 years ago , but in possession of the regular expenses his status brings him . |
| 10 | Accordingly tovarisch condemns himself not only because ‘ nothing I build ’ , but also because ‘ I reap/Nothing ’ ; the failure in the one capacity implies a failure in the other . |
| 11 | He painted this picture of his father-in-law : ‘ Over his kindred he held a wary and chary care , which bountifully was expressed when occasion so required , reputing himself not only principal of the family but a general father to them all … as for frank , well ordered and continual hospitality he outwent all show of competence ; spare but discreet of speech : better conceiving than delivering ; equally stout and kind , not upon lightness of humour , but upon soundness of judgement : inclined to commiseration , ready to relieve . ’ |
| 12 | Goodman ( 1970 , p.36 ) says that ‘ The reader asks himself not only ‘ Do I understand what this means ? ’ but ‘ Do I buy it ? ’ ’ |
| 13 | To a degree unknown in any other use of language he finds himself not only attending to what is said but simultaneously hearing the words as textures of vowels and consonants , noting rhythm , rhyme , assonance ; meanings refuse to be tied down , disclose nuances and associations of which he has never been conscious ; sights and sounds which he has never heeded become sensuously precise and vivid in imagination ; emotion assumes a peculiar lucidity , undisguised by what he habitually feels or has been taught that he ought to feel ; truths about life and death , which he follows social convention in systematically evading , stand out as simple and unchallengeable . |
| 14 | The year 1974 saw both Ceauşescu 's ‘ election ’ as President of the Socialist Republic of Romania at a ceremony in which he bestowed on himself not only a sash of office but a sceptre too . |
| 15 | Fame is a less brilliant commodity in England , but nevertheless he had to keep his address secret , to protect himself not only from letters and telephone calls but also from undesirable visitors who might arrive at Carlyle Mansions . |
| 16 | Paul finds himself not only with a new pardon now he is united with Christ : but also with a new power . |
| 17 | It seems to me , not only that this does not appear , but that the contrary appears ; for the plaintiff before the letter had already bound himself to marry , by placing himself not only under a moral , but under a legal , obligation to marry , and the testator knew it . |
| 18 | We have immense regard for the way in which he conducts himself not only in Leicester but in the rest of the United Kingdom and on behalf of the United Kingdom abroad . |
| 19 | Throughout the eighties some officials displayed a tendency to overdo the latest idea , often itself not particularly sound . |
| 20 | Since all the members of the family made no attempt to hide their feelings of antipathy , Mathilde 's behaviour was in itself not particularly remarked on by those who packed the huge interior of Notre Dame : |
| 21 | It has concerned itself not simply with financial concepts , such as ‘ cost per pupil ’ but also with outcomes , including in its 1986 report , examination successes , staying-on rates and ‘ sickness absence amongst teachers — a barometer of staff morale . ’ |
| 22 | In particular , it appears to be forging links with philosophy , linguistics and psychology in what are increasingly referred to as ‘ cognitive sciences ’ , and establishing itself not simply as a tool but an object of study in its own right . |
| 23 | In his article in your March issue Mr Royalton-Kisch roundly criticizes Benesch 's serial method of making attributions to Rembrandt : as a result almost any Rembrandtesque drawing might find itself not just in the catalogue raisonné but might be used as a starting point for further attributions to Rembrandt . |
| 24 | As Smith points out , the use of such a covert strategy is well established in research that uncovers behaviour that is itself not merely unethical or immoral but illegal . |
| 25 | His immense desire to have something outside himself that he could look up to and worship expressed itself not merely in that idealistic phase that he 'd just gone through , but in his attitude towards mathematical truth . |
| 26 | Some feminist critics have condemned this film for itself not roundly condemning violence towards women . |
| 27 | Is the reference in the preamble to the policy , beyond the outer boundary of the York greenbelt in itself not enough ? |
| 28 | However , the idea of the ‘ cosmic egg ’ was in itself not very satisfactory . |
| 29 | They could not easily have found any other body with which they could compare themselves , and in any case the House of Commons of the 1620s was itself not very important . |
| 30 | The B-line however makes everything plain , not without some help from the A-line. is itself not very precise ( RV " judgement " ; RSV " right " ; " cause " ) . |