Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Los Angeles , discussions centred not merely on drug usage as a topical exploitation subject for movies but also on the widespread and varied substances which were readily available , being increasingly used and largely blamed for the incredible recent upsurge in violence within the protest movement . |
| 2 | as if to underline the shifting boundaries of our assumptions , the working group on design and technology has challenged its ‘ subject ’ status , preferring to describe it as a ‘ capability ’ that will be developed not only through design technology , business studies , information technology and home economics , but through most other subjects as well . |
| 3 | This needs to be recognized not only at university level ( as in France , where now a course of statistics is an essential part of the training of an academic historian ) but also in any high school which has an interest in sending on students to do university work in the humanities . |
| 4 | In North America , emphasis is now placed not only on art history but also on what is termed ‘ material culture ’ — that is , everything pertaining to the lives and activities of all those who lived in the house . |
| 5 | Bus competition has been hampered not only by road congestion but upheaval in the road-passenger industry . |
| 6 | The impact for Telford is seen not only in profit growth but also greater job enrichment for its employees . |
| 7 | The information obtained was being used not only for patient care but also for management purposes such as audit , planning services , resource management , and monitoring contracts . |
| 8 | In its two years of existence , Charterail has tried to demonstrate that the railways could be used not only for bulk freight such as coal , aggregates and steel , but were also flexible enough to shift fast-selling consumer goods efficiently . |
| 9 | The Alliance , which increasingly became a de facto Nonconformist organization , existed not just to fight popery but Puseyism and also to coordinate Evangelical work . |
| 10 | Typically , the decentralised management applies not only to marketing policy but also to financial and operations management . |
| 11 | It was , after all , to be found not only in textile manufacture , but in nailmaking and some branches of the metal smallware trade . |
| 12 | Later various Far Eastern forms with a more or less conspicuous white neck ring and lower back and rump mainly green , torquatus group , ( 2 ) were introduced , and these have interbred not only with colchicus type but with other subspecies introduced from time to time , till the British Isles and much of W Europe are occupied by an indescribable amalgam of pheasant forms from all over Asia . |
| 13 | Missionary societies and church denominations are involved not only in church planting but also in giving advice and assistance in such fields as Education and Health Care , etc . |
| 14 | They resolved that the idea of a European conference on disarmament should take into account the Mediterranean dimension and should involve ‘ concrete measures which will lead not only to confidence building but also to the initiation of steps to lessen forces in the region ’ . |
| 15 | Some employers became aware that the efficiency of the workforce could be increased not only by capital investment and technological improvement , but by ‘ increasing the efficiency of human capital ’ , i.e. by improving working conditions and providing welfare benefits for workers , so that they were both physically stronger and psychologically more secure and hence able to work harder . |
| 16 | The gains would come not only in quality assurance and morale , but also in a better understanding of each other . |
| 17 | We have recently shown that children with acute infection have an IgG and IgA response to a 57 kilodalton antigen referred to as Giardia heat shock antigen and this is likely to play an important role in host parasite interactions as its expression is modulated not only by heat shock but also by conditions in the gastrointestinal tract . |
| 18 | The computer , which of course does n't find it at all funny , needs to guess what it is , and needs to rely not just on sentence structure but also on general knowledge about heads , grenades and buckets of sand — general knowledge that computers do n't have unless it is built in to them . |
| 19 | Attention must be paid not only to stool frequency and stool consistency , but to painful bowel movements , the degree of straining , and the time it takes to evacuate stools in younr children . |