Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be appreciated that , although the population of the world is about a million times larger than the population of a large village , the model needed to make a reasonable study of some major world trends and problems is not necessarily much larger or more complex than the village model . |
| 2 | Now , I think staying stopped is much more , not much more difficult but just does n't receive the attention that it deserves |
| 3 | Furthermore , the need to include parking spaces always puts undesirable constraints on the development itself , by for example limiting the areas of open space available and by vastly increasing the costs of building ; underground carparks are not only enormously expensive but also ‘ unnatural ’ in a Georgian/Victorian city like Edinburgh . |
| 4 | Hence our debt to Giulio Argan , who in his writings always favoured movements and artists who were not only independently creative but also in step with historical change . |
| 5 | An underlying principle of the project was that each school must be free to develop its own proposal and curriculum plan in the light of its own particular setting , needs , and history , and that this was not only practically desirable but also essential if the professional autonomy of the school staff was to be respected . |
| 6 | For feminists to see all men as ‘ potential rapists ’ is not only grossly simplistic but also denies the specificity of crime and criminal , as well as women 's own potential ( suppressed into depression , self-hatred , and inertia ) to be aggressive and violent , to abuse , batter , and murder — and to consume pornography . |
| 7 | Assume for the moment that utility is not only cardinally measurable but also comparable between individuals . |
| 8 | However , some medical complications are not only clinically important but actually life-threatening ; these require special attention . |
| 9 | There is concern , however , that providing separate , specially labelled services which only mentally disordered people can use is not only extremely expensive but also encourages a discriminating attitude towards already stigmatized people . |
| 10 | In the last few years there has been an increasing realization that many modern production methods are not only very wasteful but probably also unnecessary … |
| 11 | At the same time as our launching of Youth Leagues , we identified volleyball as a growth sport which was not only visually exciting but also had a good , clean image . |
| 12 | Animals are not only more ingenious and better suited to life , they also have weird sex and commit weird murders . |
| 13 | The main problem with serial/parallel disk drives is that they are not only more expensive but slower . |
| 14 | The diaries and memoirs of those who worked closely with de Gaulle in these years give the impression that his gradual disengagement from the RPF ( which began in 1951 and was not complete until 1954 ) was not only more protracted but also more painful than his disengagement from the provisional government in January 1946 . |
| 15 | Qaddafi is convinced that nature is better than art ; that society based on natural givens is not only more comfortable and just than one based on acts of will and rational choice , but more likely to survive : ‘ A flourishing garden or field is one in which plants grow , flower , are pollinated and root themselves naturally . |
| 16 | Both explained that small packs of products were not only more convenient but also meant less wasted packaging . |
| 17 | In these sections punishment will be understood to mean the infliction of pain and the review of the project will seek to demonstrate that the probation practice described is not only more demanding but also more effective than this traditional understanding of punishment . |
| 18 | She was not only too apathetic but also too afraid : the Council were mixed up , in her mind , with the police and the Government . |
| 19 | Beside the fruit house is another store , invisible to passers-by because it is not only comparatively tiny but also underground . |
| 20 | ’ This last phrase , in particular , made Ed feel not only deeply curious but extremely worried . |
| 21 | They 're not not that thick but certainly that thick . |
| 22 | ‘ By focusing on team building , project management , communication skills and so on we will provide the learning strategy that produces not just highly skilled but highly flexible people , ’ she says . |
| 23 | Although Noverre did not specifically name them he described these dancers ' particular characteristics as having similar physiques and technical expertise as the danseurs classiques but they were not always so well-proportioned and usually possessed a natural sense of comedy . |
| 24 | Below are the linked toy basins of the old fishing port , so small they are almost lost in the rocks , and a reminder that Biarritz was not always so big and so prosperous as it is now . |
| 25 | A major report on the health consequences of the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station has concluded that the effects have been limited , and not nearly as serious as widely reported . |
| 26 | Thus in the women 's fight , Spenser presents the two combatants not as fundamentally different but very similar . |
| 27 | Kautsky himself defended the orthodox case in Neue Zeit — namely , Polish national liberation , while not as strategically important as before , was still revolutionary and anti-Tsarist ; any compromise on the issue would give aid and comfort to the Tsars . |
| 28 | They 're not really so complicated as perhaps they might look in the first place . |
| 29 | In east Germany and Prussia , for example , the peasant was not quite so poor as elsewhere , but he was disciplined to the estate by legal devices which seem to have been as powerful a stimulus to rural emigration as poverty . |
| 30 | But in the period covered by this book society was not quite so hierarchical as before or after ; nor did a man 's place in the sun depend on the number and dignity of his ancestors . |