Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] not [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , Charles Mackerras ' wonderful pot-pourri of tunes from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas for Pineapple Poll displayed how well he has caught not only the humour but also the pathos of The Bum Boat Woman 's Story . |
| 2 | Indeed , the concept of judicial independence is deemed to entail not merely the freedom of judges from responsibility to the political executive , but their active duty to protect the citizen against the political executive or its agents , and to act , in the state 's encounter with members of society , as the defenders of the latter 's rights and liberties … |
| 3 | Huxley 's retort that he would rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop — or words to that effect — has come to symbolize not merely the conflict between Darwinism and the Bible but the victory of science over religion . |
| 4 | First comes the inner experience of a spiritual reality described as a door opening to reveal not only the face of the Beloved but a way of love by which he can be reached ( 15.92 ) . |
| 5 | For example , to describe the lexicon , morphology and syntax of Javanese one would need to distinguish three levels of respect to addressees and two levels of respect to referents ( Geertz , 1960 ; Comrie , 1979b ) ; to describe the particles of a number of South American Indian languages one would need to distinguish between sentences that are central versus those that are peripheral to the telling of a story ( Longacre , 1976a ) ; to describe the third person pronouns of Tunica one would need to distinguish not only the sex of the referent , but also the sex of the addressee ( so there would be two words for " she " depending on whether one is speaking to a man or a woman ; Haas , 1964 ) , while in some Australian languages the pronouns encode the moiety or section ( kinship division ) of the referent , or the kinship relation between referents ( e.g. there are sometimes two words one of which means " you-dual of the same moiety " and another " you-dual in different moieties from each other " ; Dixon , 1980 : 2-3 ; Heath et al. |
| 6 | The tragic death of drummer Jeff Porcaro has heralded not just the end of an era but , according to Toto 's guitarist and now frontman Steve Lukather , the end of the band 's fourteen-year career … |
| 7 | This led to a field study which at least seemed to locate not only the site but the probable outlines of the building . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As The Very Model of a Man is full of angels and story-tellers — two essential ingredients of ‘ magic realism ’ — there is clearly a strong hint that Jacobson is attempting to rewrite not just the Bible but our contemporary literary orthodoxies , which are in danger of assuming the status of a surrogate religion . |
| 10 | The report from one such course recently was that , during the film , various people were tapped on the shoulder and asked to leave not only the showing , but also the company . |
| 11 | This is because the frame will have to accommodate not only the thickness of the plain glass but also the thickness of the mirror and that of the hardboard backing . |
| 12 | In a poem like the ‘ Express ’ I believe we are dealing with a very involved , indeed fanatical , view of the journey , movement and stately presence of a train which seems to overpower not just the author himself but also the very universe and natural world in which it exists . |
| 13 | The first three chapters of The Form address themselves chiefly to the solitary religious , pointing the contrast between the reality of inward holiness and the outward appearances — " habett of halyness " ( 3.94.39 ) — a term which seems to cover not just the clothing but the outward practices of piety , fasting and abstinence . |
| 14 | This will be a truly gigantic equation in this instance , for it will have to describe not only the electron and the microscope but also the observer peering down the latter 's eyepiece . |
| 15 | Gould and Darwin must have discussed not only the alliance between the species in the Galapagos and the species on the continents , but the reliance of the Galapagos species for their individual characteristics on their particular environment . |
| 16 | Having lost their serfs , they realized that they would have to alter not only the basis on which they conducted their money-raising activities , but also perhaps the activities themselves . |
| 17 | By 1919 , mustard gas was known to injure not only the skin but also the bone marrow , preventing the formation of white blood cells and other essential elements of the blood . |
| 18 | Of course , those who advocate unfettered insider dealing emphasise not only the lack of victims . |
| 19 | Promoted to a senior lectureship in 1973 and to his professorship in German some 10 years later , he was one of the few remaining full-time members of the staff to have witnessed not only the coming of age of the University , but also the massive expansion of the Modern Languages Department and its impressive rise to prominence as an exponent of the applied approach to the teaching of languages , involving a marked shift of emphasis from a near exclusive preoccupation with literary studies in one foreign language to the development of communication skills in at least two . |
| 20 | Our interest is satiated , and we are pleased to have seen not only the Parthenon but other great buildings as well . |
| 21 | In these he has tried to reflect not only the period in which their music was written but also to devise a particular way of dancing inspired by the structure and tone of the particular piece of music ( see page 41 ) . |
| 22 | At the parliament which met in November 1279 Pecham was forced to withdraw not only the order to display and expound Magna Carta but also the excommunication against royal officers who ignored writs of caption or seized or wasted temporalities and against any of the suitors of illegitimate prohibitions . |
| 23 | Professor Forrester Cockburn , head of the university 's department of child health at the sick children 's hospital , said the move had angered not only the university staff at Yorkhill , but the health service staff who work with them in a team effort at the hospitals . |
| 24 | He added that the government was especially pleased that the scheme had encouraged not just the planting of large forests but also of small woodlands for recreational purposes . |
| 25 | The Tories , however , were convinced that the Toleration Act had encouraged not only the growth of Dissent , but also of heresies such as Deism and Socinianism , and of irreligion in general . |
| 26 | Recognising the inherent flexibility of microelectronics-based technologies it seeks to influence not only the rate of change but also the choice and design of new technology and associated systems of working . |
| 27 | She had married not just the man , she had married his job , and all that it involved . |
| 28 | The following pages show , on large colour plates , the versatility and sheer brilliance of an artist who has managed to catch not only the feel and technical accuracy of aircraft but also the mood of nature , in every painting . |
| 29 | Thus , we need to know not just the shape of the pre- and post-distributions but also the location of families within the distributions . |
| 30 | That Nottinghamshire went on working reflects not simply the self-interest of its miners but more importantly the culture that their predecessors ( many of them their ancestors ) helped to create and transmit to the present . |