Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [not/n't] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government promoted Swahili as a national language not only because it was useful in administration but also because it was seen as an instrument ‘ for uniting the people of the nation 's different tribes ’ . |
| 2 | Information Technology ( IT ) is a strategic resource not just because it provides sophisticated operational systems and day-to-day information for management control but also because associated Information Systems ( IS ) provide top level market information . |
| 3 | She observes , for example , that gender may affect language use in a given situation not just as a property of the speaker but also as a characteristic of the addressee ; the determining factor might be who is being spoken to rather than who is speaking . |
| 4 | He was , after all , proposing to jerk up and down on top of a naked woman not more than three or four strides away from a sleeping child , her child . |
| 5 | The scenes surge back overlaid with a red mist not there when I dreamed . |
| 6 | Bannon 's resignation was also seen as increasing the difficulties of federal Prime Minister Paul Keating whose ALP government was recording poor popularity ratings and was due to face a federal election not later than May 1993 . |
| 7 | The courts have sometimes appeared to embrace a rule that a person can become a constructive trustee not only because he personally receives trust property knowing it is transferred in breach of trust , but also where he knowingly assists in the breach . |
| 8 | The assembly of merchants had become of little value as a tax-granting body not just because of the hostility of the commons but also because Edward 's monopolistic schemes had so divided the mercantile community that it could no longer speak with one voice . |
| 9 | In their writing , Froebel , Pestalozzi , Edgeworth , the Macmillans and Susan Isaacs reiterate basic principles for effective learning , all of which involve the child as an active learner not just as a passive receptacle ( Curtis 1986 , Ch. 2 ) . |