Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adv] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were responsible for the complete show , which was why stories of stars giving notes to other actors or ordering changes in sets and costumes were not just examples of megalomania , but the desire to maintain the overall standard of whatever production they put their names to . |
| 2 | As the judge so rightly said , his were not merely crimes of theft but of violence against elderly people . |
| 3 | They were not only evidence of disagreement amongst abolitionists but perceived by contemporaries to have different religious and political characteristics . |
| 4 | It seems to me that these dreams were not only manifestations of hunger , but that they also evinced a desire to be normal and part of the natural world . |
| 5 | The CSO 's new director , Bill McLennan , said the changes were not only part of general tidying up operation to standardise distribution but also to prevent leaks . |
| 6 | The middlemen who organized supplies of these crops for European traders were not only accumulators of capital but also invested in new opportunities , such as that created by the demand for cocoa in the 1890s . |
| 7 | North listened to this impassively ; when it was over his eyes filled with tears , but these were not necessarily tears of compunction . |
| 8 | The trouble was that ( where it was not already part of tradition ) the introduction of piece-work was often resisted , especially by the skilled men , and that it was complex and obscure not only for the workers , but for employers who often had only the haziest idea of what production-norms to set . |
| 9 | It was not primarily ideas of democracy , which , as we have seen , only enjoyed a diluted existence in the eighteenth century , but popular action , and above all the eruption of the French people into politics in the years of the Revolution , that transformed the modern history of democracy . |
| 10 | Sir Ralph Sadler , for instance , was not only Secretary of State from 1540 to 1543 , he was also Master of the Great Wardrobe from 1543 to 1553 , Keeper of the Hanaper in Chancery from 1535 until his death in 1587 , and notary in Chancery from 1534 . |
| 11 | This might have been expected to mitigate fear of death ; unfortunately , with the general decay of faith towards the end of the century , it was not only terror of hell that was declining , but also hope of immortality . |
| 12 | It was not only gifts of cash that kept the voluntary hospitals going , but the donation by leading doctors of their services . |