Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [pron] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The package would seem to be designed to appeal to people with enough money to make a ‘ once for all ’ holiday payment , but not enough to buy their own holiday home . |
| 2 | It should not perhaps surprise us that trade unions appear to have made less bargaining headway on the issues of job design than on the question of equipment design . |
| 3 | For all these reasons , the Bosnian government does not much want its own capital to become a safe haven . |
| 4 | He was about to experiment with a drastic remedy — not only taking his own advice but overriding that ‘ occasionally ’ by cohabiting with a prostitute as a common law wife . |
| 5 | A failure to give proper levels of support to informal carers not only reduces their own quality of life and that of the relative or friend they care for , but is also potentially inefficient as it can lead to less personally appropriate care being offered . |
| 6 | The British Property Federation ( BPF ) has gone as far as not only producing its own system for dealing with projects but , in liaison with the ACA ( Association of Consultant Architects ) , producing its own standard building contract to suit its system . |
| 7 | Each discipline may choose not only to put their own interpretation on the material they incorporate under a heading , but also choose to organize the material in a different way , e.g. classify according to the type of processing , rather than function . |
| 8 | As such it is not only reworking its own field , but putting new questions and new evidence into the general work of the social sciences . |
| 9 | Kristian Schmid , alias Todd Landers , told us : ‘ Neighbours not only has its own style , it makes people feel good . ’ |
| 10 | Dr Hallauer summed up the importance of vaccinating healthcare workers against hepatitis B , not only to protect their own health but also for the good of others . |
| 11 | The counselling task is not only to understand what each individual is saying , but also to spot the differences , the possible areas of friction and incompatibility that exist within the family , and then to interpret and explain these to the family group . |
| 12 | Not only did my own shape improve dramatically but so did that of my ladies . |
| 13 | In a society dominated by consumerism , every buying choice we make is a political act — by choosing to buy environmentally-friendly cleaning fluids and powders , avoiding aerosols and using lead-free petrol , we are not only minimizing our own impact on the environment but also registering a protest . |
| 14 | He considered that Liza was behaving disgracefully , maintained that Harriet was encouraging her daughter in what he called ‘ selfish laziness ’ and that , sorry as he was about the death of John Carrow , surely Harriet had not long lost her own husband and it was up to Liza to give her more support . |
| 15 | The compensatory factor was that old-school professionals did not usually have their own transport and many a signature was cajoled out of them on their way to nearest railway station or tram or bus stop . |
| 16 | The military did not always get its own way but it was in a strong position . |
| 17 | But some children , either through their experience of using tantrums to get their own way or through general strong will and temperament , will take a lot of teaching and repeated experiences to realize finally that they can not always get their own way . |
| 18 | It is true that she has not always got her own way in Cabinet , particularly in the first years . |
| 19 | For example , if the patient says ‘ I can not possibly measure my own blood glucose because I am at work all day ’ , the patient might be lost if the doctor were to insist . |
| 20 | The jungle in which they are isolated provides them with shelter but can not possibly offer them enough food . |
| 21 | The educationalist Sir Robert Gould once said that a child being educated in Great Britain could not possibly understand his own environment without understanding something about Christianity ; and he was right . |
| 22 | Language can not symbolically signal its own meaning but has to be contextually connected to yield indexical meaning , so it follows that some mutually agreed ground rules for co-operation have to be assumed . |
| 23 | The court did not simply substitute its own view because Congress had assigned the task primarily to the agency which , because of its greater experience , placed it in a better position to resolve the matter than the Court . |
| 24 | She had not even phoned them that morning to explain her absence . |
| 25 | It will not even give him any power in Brittany , for if she comes here she loses whatever sway she has there . |
| 26 | Students were not even given their own campus cafe or union bar to meet in . |
| 27 | Frederica , who did not even make her own bed , acquired one or two odd skills . |
| 28 | He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference . |
| 29 | The aim is to give an initial impression of efficiency ; if you can not even get your own act together what likelihood is there of your being of any use to anyone else ? |
| 30 | The implication of all this is not only that weak businesses do worse in absolute terms , but that they do not even realize their own potential . |