Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've not even the money to see you properly married , Emily , ’ he said softly . |
| 2 | A lifelong love of fashions means I have not only the nerve to try something original , but the experience to put my own version of style together . |
| 3 | Visual art has a rich and abundant language , and by learning to express and translate its varied vocabulary you gain not only the power to explore personal truths or create unique images , but you have the opportunity to show a rare insight into this diverse and extraordinary world . |
| 4 | When Flora Tristan , the French feminist and socialist , visited London in 1839 she noted not just the extent of prostitution but the complex ritualization of male debauchery . |
| 5 | You violated not only the lady but her home in which she was entitled to expect she would be safe . |
| 6 | She had not even the comfort of Hector 's presence , for her nervousness upset him and he had taken to roaming again , now that his leg was healed . |
| 7 | She had not quite the disdain of him that she put into what she said ; and perhaps he knew it as well as she did . |
| 8 | If she had not quite the fire and the golden glow of her ancestors , nobody remarked it . |
| 9 | We indicate not only the location and amenities , but also the number of bedrooms in the hotel , and whether it has a lift . |
| 10 | Can we afford not only the debate today but can we afford it in another eighteen months ? |
| 11 | We did not back the consortium . |
| 12 | With essential oils we have not only the material substance of the oil with its therapeutic properties , we also have the ethereal aroma , which , according to psychic healers , influences not only the emotions , but also the spiritual aspect . |
| 13 | In particular , do they affect not only the presentation but the substance of government decisions ? |
| 14 | They influence not only the way the audience receives cultural texts , but also what gets exhibited in museums , the paintings we see in books and magazines and on television , and what gets taught in the art schools . |
| 15 | The people who have raised the petition , in particular the Scunthorpe pensioners rights campaign , point out that they seek not only the restoration of the link that was broken in 1979 , but also parity with pensions in Europe . |
| 16 | They cover not only the lifting of loads but also lowering , pushing , pulling , carrying or moving them , whether by hand or other bodily force . |
| 17 | By the closing weeks of 1987 the population of the occupied territories had concluded that they faced not only the prevarication of Israel and Jordan but also the acquiescence of the other Arab states . |
| 18 | Zakrevskii 's political opinions were so far to the right that he thought the Moscow Slavophiles were dangerous subversives ; his antipathy to modernization led him to deplore not only the construction of new factories in Moscow but also the expansion of old ones . |
| 19 | The basic and sorry fact about the grants with which Frohnmayer had so much difficulty was that they expressed not only the unity of American life , but the fissures within it . |
| 20 | The great advantage of having a fixed date er for these European elections on the ninth of June , a date that 's been well known for a considerable time now , should be the certainty for the electorate , that they know not only the date of that election but the geographical boundary er of the constituency in which they live er the candidates that they can choose from and of course in relation to European elections , the number of er members of the European parliament that there will be representing the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | The Count of Flanders , Louis de Mâle , had only one child , his daughter Margaret , whose marriage was eagerly sought by both protagonists in the war , for with her went not only the County of Flanders itself with its substantial revenues but also Artois , Nevers , Rethel and the County of Burgundy . |
| 22 | Rebel MPs told of threats to their futures if they did not back the Government . |
| 23 | If they do not then the interview is politely broken off . |
| 24 | Conflicts in the countryside — especially between farming , forestry and conservation — have in places become so intense that they threaten not only the sound use of land resources but also the future prosperity of rural communities . |
| 25 | They have not merely the right to possess : they are in possession . |
| 26 | Anyway , they have not really the transport for a journey as far as this and in any case , they could not spare the time from work . ’ |
| 27 | They see not only the immediacy of pain but the effects of damage , accident and fate on human lives . |
| 28 | And this one is a very interesting project because it 's being done under the director of , direction of Dr. Michael Eraut in the University , but it involves not merely the University but the East Sussex County Council . |
| 29 | For the rest of the war , the party 's loyalty to Lloyd George was strengthened when he became not only the organizer of victory but the inspiration of the country . |
| 30 | Throughout 1932 and 1933 he retained not only the position of Prime Minister but most of the prerogatives of the office as well . |