Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is particularly so when mobility , speech or hearing have been impaired , perhaps after a serious stroke . |
| 2 | This is not only because law and morality are related , but also because some costs ( eg. the loss of confidence in the markets ) are incapable of being quantified . |
| 3 | This is not only because marriage is thought more important but because higher education is dangerous . |
| 4 | This is not only because quotation contributes to an appropriate " literary critical " register ( for this dubious reason , quotations are often believed to be " compulsory in essays " ) ; it is also because your essays are largely about language ( both the language of the literary texts you are analysing and also the language of critical works about them ) , so quotation is the main way of presenting essential data . |
| 5 | And if , as so oft en , ecstasy obliterates the specificity of the landscape which simultaneously enables and absorbs it , this is not only because ecstasy is of its nature blind ; it is also because what we repudiate remains with us as partial blindness to what we embrace in its stead . |
| 6 | The television nasties we all thought had gone for good are here again and age has n't improved them . |
| 7 | That is not just because inflation is raging less fiercely than it was in the early 1980s , but also because of improvements in the way the labour market works . |