Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Stanley Baldwin was sent to Hawtrey 's , near Slough , which was almost exclusively an Eton preparatory school , although there followed a not wholly explained change of plan and he went to Harrow in 1881 . |
| 2 | This abandonment of a Tyneside base by ship owning interests would not necessarily reduce recruitment of merchant seamen from the Tyne . |
| 3 | One of the most common experiments of this kind is making and firing of pottery , which not only tests methods of pottery construction , decoration , glazing , and firing methods , but also leaves the remains of the kiln itself which can be compared with excavated examples . |
| 4 | Talks on privatising Deutsche Bundespost Telekom have entered a critical phase , with a key decision due next month , Germany 's postal and telecommunications minister Wolfgang Bosch told Reuter at Hannover on Friday : ‘ In a few weeks we will know whether or not there will be a change to the constitution , ’ he said , noting that decision will not only affect privatisation of Telekom but also Bonn 's position at the upcoming talks with the European Commission — an agreement on privatisation would pave the way for Bonn to approve the Community plan to open domestic and international telephone calls to competition ; the current strategy to get agreement from Germany 's opposition socialists is to win over the postal union , which so far rejects turning Telekom into a joint stock company for fear of massive job losses . |
| 5 | His leadership characteristics include ingenuity and determination not only to unearth agents of change , but to see that they are profitably applied : he took robotic ideas from Austin Rover into food manufacturing . |
| 6 | Railway and port facilities will be needed and higher levels of mine mechanization if coal production is to achieve levels which not only supply 70% of energy demand but afford an opportunity for exports . |
| 7 | Lambeth Council in London banned a book , Midnight Circus , on the grounds that ‘ most carers ’ disapprove of circuses , and the presentation of an ape as the baddie not only raises issues of animal rights but has racial overtones — even though it turns out that the ape is really a white woman in disguise . |
| 8 | Since that time , not only have views of education and educational research changed , but so have views of science . |
| 9 | Since that time , not only have views of education and educational research changed , but so have views of science . |
| 10 | This principle includes the need to see whether the professional or other body under scrutiny not only has rules of conduct , which will be thoroughly scrutinised within the statutory machinery , but also has an effective mechanism for enforcing the rules of conduct and is likely to enforce them . |
| 11 | Such mis-managed demeaning talk not only induces feelings of worthlessness amongst old folk momentarily , but can , in the long run , reduce life-satisfaction , mental and physical health , with valued social welfare and medical resources being subsequently implicated . |
| 12 | At the outset this seems an onerous task , as not only do gallons of water lie on the sail but the wind is also trying to hold the sail down . |
| 13 | They are advised to choose the compulsory modules for an extra field , not only to encourage breadth of study but also to serve as a foundation for a possible change of field in the future . |
| 14 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 15 | That is , it does not directly make use of information about the length of words , or information about the overall word shape . |
| 16 | The physical ownership of a work does not automatically include ownership of copyright . |
| 17 | To make matters worse , in vitro fertilisation is an experimental procedure and so there are not clearly defined standards of care against which a doctor 's actions could be judged . |
| 18 | However , her categorisation is unprincipled in the sense that it does not really relate types of metaphor to each other , and is thus no more than a typology of poetic examples . |
| 19 | Most rheumatologists agree that monitoring the treatment in rheumatoid disease does not routinely require measurement of blood cyclosporin concentrations : patients ' blood pressure , renal biochemical variables , creatinine clearance , and full blood count are monitored . |
| 20 | The overwhelming climate of secrecy has long been encouraged and supported by the Official Secrets Acts 1911–1920 which have been used not simply to prevent disclosure of security information but to prevent the disclosure of all information which governments have chosen not to disclose . |
| 21 | The distribution of hoards which were deposited in the Civil War does not closely reflect areas of fighting , nor does it correspond with regional variations in the density of population or wealth . |
| 22 | The addition of 100 µl faecal fluid to a biopsy specimen in culture did not significantly affect metabolism of butyrate ( biopsy specimen+ faecal fluid 49.7 ( 10.1 ) nmol/µg protein/h , biopsy specimen+Krebs-Henseleit 52.2 ( 5.8 ) ) ( mean ( SD ) , five experiments per group ) ( 95% CI=-18.1 to 22.5 ) or glutamine ( biopsy specimen+faecal fluid 5.7 ( 1.1 ) , biopsy specimen +Krebs-Henseleit 6.8 ( 2.2 ) ) ( 95% CI=-3.8 to 2.2 ) . |
| 23 | While the statutory grounds of attack do not specifically mention error of law on the face of the record , later courts have given the formula a broad interpretation . |
| 24 | Researchers in the 50's showed that children from middle-class families were far more likely to gain a place at grammar school than the children of the working-class and the system was not therefore providing equality of opportunity . |