Example sentences of "not [adv] a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not wholly a man of nostalgia , and the road accident which cost him his son at the age of 21 all but destroyed his religious faith . |
| 2 | Once comedy was given the incentive to develop it soon leapt ahead of the dramatic film : suddenly there emerged a handful of geniuses and this was not entirely a matter of chance . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , this attitude was probably not entirely a matter of hubris since the Treasury may well have had genuine doubts as to the potential effectiveness of planning [ Brittan , 1971 ] . |
| 4 | The authority will be purchasers and enablers of care , but not necessarily a provider of care . |
| 5 | The father in one family , himself a compositor with both a son and daughter following his trade , was described as " a first-class workman , clever , thoughtful and well-read … he is in the Trade Union " and also attended Labour Party meetings ( indicating incidentally that it was not necessarily a sign of disaffection from the union for a comp to send his daughter to the trade ) . |
| 6 | Thus , in moral deliberation it is not necessarily a confusion of validity and truth to give weight to the way in which a decision is reached as well as or perhaps rather than to the content of the decision reached . |
| 7 | This is not necessarily a matter of money . |
| 8 | It was not necessarily a world of fantasy . |
| 9 | This is not necessarily a recipe for despair , however . |
| 10 | To own land was to possess , not only a symbol of status , but also the most prized source of wealth and power . |
| 11 | But even in the 1860s , the notion that a " mere girl " might learn the trade very quickly and be doing as well as a man in a short time , was not only a threat to employment but a threat to the craftsman 's pride in his skill . |
| 12 | Our eyes and minds have felt the need for change , not only a change of view but also the psychological relief and stimulus of thinking of something new . |
| 13 | Such records are not only a stimulus for enthusiasm and an aid to forward planning but have communication value for a team of staff as well as for parents , and help continuity in case of staff change . |
| 14 | It needed not only a revolution in organisation but in technology too . |
| 15 | But it does indicate the extent to which Mary 's cushioned childhood created not only a cocoon of adulation , but a cocoon of immaturity which she seemed remarkably reluctant to pierce . |
| 16 | A positive experience of school was not only a reflection of examination success , but may also have resulted from good relationships with peers or a positive memory of several other aspects of school life . |
| 17 | The extent to which children are thought about while housework is done is not only a reflection on housework 's fragmented quality ; it also signifies the basic difficulties which inhere in the combination of housewife and mother roles . |
| 18 | The coherence is therefore not only a coherence over time but also a consistency or cohesion in action . |
| 19 | The year 1974 saw both Ceauşescu 's ‘ election ’ as President of the Socialist Republic of Romania at a ceremony in which he bestowed on himself not only a sash of office but a sceptre too . |
| 20 | The maintenance of living structure requires not only a flow of energy , but a multitude of controls on that flow . |
| 21 | He will appreciate that there will be not only a sense of relief at Yarrow , but a great sense of pride that the company has been entrusted with that order . |
| 22 | Faced with changes like these , the farm worker experiences not only a sense of alienation from the village , but often a real material deprivation . |
| 23 | Their in fidelity was not only a solvent of family ties in this world ; it also destroyed all prospects of reunion in the next . |
| 24 | Their attempt to cause trouble is not only a sign of division within the party ; it could also pose problems for Solidarity . |
| 25 | This increasing emphasis on ‘ dignity ’ was not only a reference to behaviour within the chapel but to the nature of the Church as a body . |
| 26 | Not only a question about art . |
| 27 | Perhaps we could all agree that it is not only a question of money . |
| 28 | Of course , there are relatively as well as absolutely very many more poor people in the Third World than in the First World but this is not only a question of geography but also of transnational class location . |
| 29 | Privatisation , then , is not only a question of secularisation . |
| 30 | Chess is not only a part of home life . |