Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also wrote to her brother , whom she had mostly but not altogether forgiven for his betrayal of her to her mother . |
| 2 | The subversive implications of Lamarck 's thought — in particular the implication that a person 's character , destiny and deserts are not wholly determined by his breeding — aroused some disfavour : Napoleon did not like Lamarck . |
| 3 | At £145 ( + VAT , of course ) it is not badly priced for its power , and gives other packages a run for their money , including its big brother ! |
| 4 | Smart 's friends were not all alienated by his misfortune , because on 26 January 1759 David Garrick presented a successful benefit for him , acting a leading part himself , at Drury Lane , and Newbery and Carnan published one of the plays performed , also for Smart 's benefit . |
| 5 | But the quantity of these early materials was not entirely matched by their quality and relevance . |
| 6 | I was not greatly comforted by my talk with Seddon . |
| 7 | The reasons for their success are not necessarily to do with their acuteness , not necessarily to do with their originality , but everything to do with sustaining the status-quo of the institution at that time . |
| 8 | The reasons for their success are not necessarily to do with their acuteness , not necessarily to do with their originality , but everything to do with sustaining the status-quo of the institution at that time . |
| 9 | Human life was not necessarily robbed of its meaning by being incorporated into the natural system . |
| 10 | Formal links between sentences , then , are not enough to account for our feeling that a stretch of language is discourse . |
| 11 | Gilly finds an excuse for going back to Mr Randolph 's house and she manages to steal the rest of his money , but there is still not enough to pay for her ticket to San Francisco . |
| 12 | Her father , a net maker , earned a " scanty subsistence " which was " not much enlarged by my mother 's keeping a little day-school for the girls in her neighbourhood " . |
| 13 | A distinction is sought to be drawn between the staff included in clause 1 of section 34 ( being those also falling within section 35 and who are appointed until a fixed age ) and staff not so appointed to whom section 34(3) applies and who may be dismissed on the notice period specified in their letter of appointment . |
| 14 | As the 1956 Act applies only to buildings , s.1(1) of the 1968 Act extended the offence to include dark smoke emitted from ‘ industrial and trade premises ’ defined , for the purpose of that Act , by s.1(5) as ‘ premises used for any industrial or trade purposes or premises not so used on which matter is burnt in connection with any industrial or trade process ’ . |
| 15 | We should look behind the artificially magnified scope of the devil to discover he is not so deserved of our admiration as once we supposed . |
| 16 | Choose your type of moisturiser , not only according to your skin type , but also in relation to the climate . |
| 17 | A bishop 's status was not only connected to his role in defining Christian society and to his monopolization of holy places and objects , but also based on legally conferred rights and obligations dating from the late Roman period . |
| 18 | He has not only remained in his job as a chemical engineer but has also been promoted twice and is now principal chemical engineer with Ciba , in Paisley . |
| 19 | In the second case , however , compulsory acquisition at less than market price involves an actual loss since the owner is not only deprived of his property but is also compensated at a price which might be less than he paid for it and would almost certainly be insufficient to purchase a similar parcel of land in the open market . |
| 20 | He can not only bring to our remembrance what Jesus taught , but can reveal to us the deeper significance of his person , his death and resurrection which we could never have grasped by historical contemporaneity . |
| 21 | In this case , Brenda not only accommodates to her father 's language variety ( Standard English , in terms of syntax ) but actually echoes his words in agreement in the first part of her turn . |
| 22 | Trakback not only helps with your stock control , it also helps you manage your company 's cash flow , by letting you know quickly when you can invoice . |
| 23 | But what Miss Blagden had sought her out for was not only to ask after her welfare or bring news from Lucca but to offer her two lady-boarders for three months . |
| 24 | Tom Sutcliffe 's wife not only acted as his Secretary and personal interpreter , but made her own contribution to the cause for which he worked as a teacher of sign language and an outstanding interpreter particularly in the educational field . |
| 25 | Young women were not only constrained by their class position and by unemployment , but also by their male peers and by their position within the family . |
| 26 | For , unlike conquerors before and after , the Romans did not only take from their subject peoples , they contributed also , and the result of these contributions in road communications , law and administration , heating systems , architecture and art has had a permanent effect in Europe despite the 1000 years which intervened between the collapse of the Western half of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance . |
| 27 | Wood-boring ambrosia beetles ( of the species Xyleborus ferrugineus ) are parasitized by bacteria that not only live in their host 's body but also use the host 's eggs as their transport into a new host . |
| 28 | She had not long returned to her room however , when her telephone rang , and when she answered it the sun came out . |
| 29 | The shape and musculature of a dolphin do not alone account for its speed and swimming efficiency , and biologists have long been searching for features of the skin which may explain the mysteries of the dolphin 's swimming prowess . |
| 30 | If an arrangement is chosen that can not physically pass through its end positions without breaking the couple , then the iterative procedure will state , after a set number of attempts , that it is unable to re-establish the associations in this configuration . |