Example sentences of "not [adv] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , it is not enough for designers of information products to recognise the benefits of those products . |
| 2 | Too crowded — not enough in depth on debt |
| 3 | Still , without returning on our tracks and urging the rigorist position ( that one must always do as much good as possible ) , there must be some kind of requirement that one do as little harm as possible , in terms of actual pain ( though not perhaps in terms of pleasure prevented ) in order to achieve the good one does . |
| 4 | The passage is concerned not only with objects of perception , but with the process of perceiving them ; the occurrence of first person pronouns ( over half of the personal pronouns are of this type ) is a symptom of this(37) |
| 5 | There are also in many languages forms reserved for authorized recipients , including restrictions on most titles of address ( Your Honour , Mr President , etc. ) ; in Tunica there were pronouns that differed not only with sex of referent , but also with the sex of the addressee , so that there were , for example , two words for " they " , depending on whether one was speaking to a man or a woman ( Haas , ibid . ) . |
| 6 | In the mid-to-late 1970s , while building her business , she had to cope not only with prejudice against headhunting , but with prejudice against her as a woman . |
| 7 | This is because cousin has a general meaning which covers all the more specific possibilities ( not only with regard to sex , but also with regard to an indefinitely large number of other matters , such as height , age , eye-colour , etc . ) . |
| 8 | But market research is concerned not only with measurement of consumption : some of the industry 's most striking successes ( as well as a few flops ) have been about prediction . |
| 9 | It is through the study of quartered coats , as displayed in cathedrals , county archives and other reference sources that the local historian may glean much information not only on families of note ( should textual information not exist or be imprecise ) , but how tenure and ownership of estates changed hands in days long or recently past . |
| 10 | This depended not only on variations in rate poundage but also on rateable values , which varied from one part of the country to another . |
| 11 | In the Forest of Dean the warden levied cheminage , not only on loads of wood , but also on sea coal and iron ore carried ‘ through the forest towards Gloucester ’ . |
| 12 | It is the result of us winning the argument in favour of our diesels , not only on grounds of economics but also on quality . ’ |
| 13 | At the same time , some forms of state support are provided , not only on grounds of age or disability alone , but contingent on whether or not informal carers are seen as able to give assistance . |
| 14 | This led on in later generations to a widespread belief among orthodox Christians that the Bible should be looked upon as a compendium of truths directly revealed by God , inerrant and totally consistent in all its parts , and thus the supremely authoritative source of information not only on points of doctrine but on any other matters on which it might touch . |
| 15 | The plays become a focus , not only for question about Renaissance drama , but about a variety of cultural debates . |
| 16 | Already , though , the examiners are looking not only for knowledge of syllabus content but also for those intellectual qualities that make a successful chartered accountant . |
| 17 | It is important to recognize , then , that a variety of different indexing approaches are inevitable , not only for reasons of history and indexer preference , but because different situations demand different approaches . |
| 18 | At the first summit of the non-aligned nations in 1961 the Cuban President had declared that ‘ the peoples reject the installation in their territory of foreign military bases implying an imminent danger of war ’ not only for reasons of principle ‘ but by mere instinct of self-preservation ’ . |
| 19 | Pupils with little or no sight need the opportunity to explore the classroom , not only for reasons of access and safety but also to find out where the key activities take place and where the objects needed for their work and play are kept . |
| 20 | Therefore , we 're left with a certain pot and we must manage that the best way possible in providing the best education , not only for children in village schools , but in towns and every of large or medium size throughout this county . |
| 21 | He believed education should fit man for society , as well as equipping him with learning , hence he pressed not only for lessons in drawing , but also in French . |
| 22 | Like the Race Relations Act 1976 it applies not only to discrimination in relation to admissions , but also to the benefits , facilities and services offered by the school and the arrangements for discipline , including exclusion from school . |
| 23 | This was due not only to economies of scale but also to what came to be known as the experience curve . |
| 24 | I refer not only to issues about manpower and conditions arising out of the implementation of ’ fresh start ’ but to the clear opposition to privatisation of prison services , prisons or remand centres , on which I do not agree . |
| 25 | However , these kinds of events are not only of importance in depression ; they are implicated in a variety of illnesses . |
| 26 | They go into school wearing comfortable old clothes and rapidly discover they need to tailor for themselves , and quickly , a substantial wardrobe , not only of ways of operating but of ways of thinking , feeling and perceiving as well . |
| 27 | Language has the ability to stimulate and motivate , not only through appeals to logic but also through appeals to emotion ( Burke , 1950 ; Pfeffer , 1981 ; Edelman , 1964 ) . |
| 28 | The spirit of brotherhood travels not only from country to country but also from time to time . |
| 29 | The basis for use of energy in biogeography derives not only from work in ecology generally but also from the field of bioenergetics . |
| 30 | On the basis of this evidence , it has been suggested that poverty is the primary cause of the failure to seek legal advice , and it has been proposed that the failure is due to a lack of ‘ legal competence ’ among the less affluent who suffer not only from lack of money , but also from lack of influence , lack of energy and lack of awareness . |