Example sentences of "not [adv] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour government , then , was not wholly the prisoner of dogma . |
| 2 | A visiting fossilist from Aberdeenshire drew Johnson 's attention to a species of ash tree , enabling the great man to support his recurring arboreal obsession : ‘ The present nakedness of the Hebrides is not wholly the fault of Nature . ’ |
| 3 | Thus in the light of much which has been surveyed here , it is impossible to view overmanning — the bane of British industry — as mainly if not wholly the consequence of union power . |
| 4 | It is not necessarily the Secretary of State 's definitive view , it is the view that erm the regional office have come to given the erm evidence presented presented at the time . |
| 5 | The Americans and their allies have always made it plain that January 15th was merely the point after which war would become authorised , not necessarily the date for attack . |
| 6 | The " Green Movement " is not necessarily the friend of religion — it can displace it as understood within the great religious traditions , giving rise to a neo-paganism which challenges them . |
| 7 | There , any archaeological excavation without a permit is illegal , which is not necessarily the case in Britain . |
| 8 | The main problem was not necessarily the number of matches played , though winners Namibia and runners-up Hong Kong had to play eleven games each , mostly under the hot glare of the Sicilian sun . |
| 9 | Those who knew him remember an amiable man , but not necessarily the sort of person you 'd expect to end up in the White House . |
| 10 | There 's also a general view in the community that community care itself is not necessarily really working very well , there 's some fears about it , some uncertainties and a member did mention , it may have been Jim you know or somebody mentioned about the seven hours domiciliary , from my experience as a councillor I am not sure that simply because that figure exists that that means that that is satisfying the need of those people and in any case the sort of people who need to go into residential care , who can no longer be maintained in their home , with whatever help we give them or with whatever help their family have to give them they 're not necessarily the sort of people who we 're talking about need to go in a home . |
| 11 | They are not perhaps the kind of remarks to be found in Christmas crackers , but they suggest that his humour was bound up with the idea of self-parody : he is mocking the pontifical manner which others associated with him . |
| 12 | It might be felt that this is not perhaps the set of circumstances in which ignoring ail Continental experience would seem to be a logical and easily justified decision . |
| 13 | Not so the philosophy of animal rights . |
| 14 | Signposting to the ferry in Dieppe leaves something to be desired ; not so the food at La Marmite Dieppoise , 8 rue St Jean : menus from FF125 ( Tel : 010 33 35 84 24 26 ) . |
| 15 | Moderator I declare my interest as a member of the panel on doctrine but I wanted to enquire whether Professor would be willing to include not only the problem of anti-semitism but what seems to me to be the opposite problem which also exists today , which is the problem of Zionism . |
| 16 | It is not only the order of words that has changed , however , but also the form of the verb itself , since the active verb arrested becomes was arrested in the passive . |
| 17 | But it was not only the head of Christendom whose example would remind Edward of the prestige attached to making and coordinating laws . |
| 18 | This is a forceful attack on not only the idea of literature as communication but also on the idea of communication itself . |
| 19 | They see not only the immediacy of pain but the effects of damage , accident and fate on human lives . |
| 20 | What does matter is that the Cabinet has got right not only the level of spending but where the money is to go . |
| 21 | How schools conceive the curriculum will affect not only the scope of changes entertained , but also the way they perceive the relationship between changes in different elements of the curriculum . |
| 22 | But the Commission takes into account not only the behaviour of customers , but also the importance of regulatory factors of transport costs or national buying preferences . |
| 23 | This procedure acknowledged not only the interdependence of church and realm but also the weakness of excommunication as a sanction unless it were backed by secular coercion . |
| 24 | He believes this conflict is responsible for the ‘ crisis ’ in film , television and pop , pointing out that the Sixties saw not only the easing of censorship but also a massive decline in cinema attendances . |
| 25 | Sadler was no doubt thinking of the climate of opinion in which his inquiry was conducted , in particular the movement for ‘ National Efficiency ’ which questioned not only the principle of voluntaryism , but also the apparently redundant individualism of late nineteenth-century Liberalism . |
| 26 | It is not only the credibility of Mr Major and his lot that needs to be questioned but also their morality . |
| 27 | Of course , those who advocate unfettered insider dealing emphasise not only the lack of victims . |
| 28 | But it was not only the work of Vredeman de Vries that made this garden so remarkable . |
| 29 | For this is not only the man in charge of the Second Division leaders but the former manager of West Ham , the last Second Division club to win the FA Cup . |
| 30 | A mass of facts and figures which embrace not only the year by year progress of aviation , but also features separate sections on piston and jet engines and their development , propellers , fuel , and world airlines and their respective histories . |