Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real restriction of his freedom arose not so much from the restraints of his colleagues as front the fact that his Plymouth speech inevitably created an election atmosphere which he found difficult to control . |
| 2 | The agents or lecturers became not only dramatic figures in the theatre of the public meeting but combatants , for example on the occasions when Thompson and some colleagues debated the West Indian Peter Borthwick and associates at Glasgow in 1833 and in 1836 the American defender of slavery , Breckinridge . |
| 3 | The credit for securing this freedom belongs not so much to the legislators ( many of whom now profess themselves appalled at developments ) but to a few courageous publishers who risked jail by inviting juries to take a stand against censorship , and to the ineptitude and corruption of police enforcement . |
| 4 | His resignation arose not so much because an audience was to be debarred from geology , as because women were to be debarred from the audience . |
| 5 | Groups became not merely bands , but ‘ ensembles ’ , deploying electronics , synthesisers and , in one case , something called ‘ crossover music theatre ’ . |
| 6 | It was a mercy we did , for X-rays revealed not only back trouble , but a massive abdominal aorta aneurysm . |
| 7 | In Los Angeles , discussions centred not merely on drug usage as a topical exploitation subject for movies but also on the widespread and varied substances which were readily available , being increasingly used and largely blamed for the incredible recent upsurge in violence within the protest movement . |
| 8 | In this type of use , to is intercepted at the final moment of the movement it denotes , so that the adjective or main verb evokes not only how the person designated as the support of the infinitive was predisposed towards the realization of the latter 's event , but also his feelings at the time of its occurrence . |
| 9 | Indeed such is the pressure for adequate car parking that there are a surprising number of cases where brewing companies have applied for permission to demolish not only outbuildings but adjacent cottages , some of them listed … ’ |
| 10 | As a consequence of these practical deficiencies , the principle of strict traffic segregation has been replaced in most Western societies by a repertoire of policies developed not just to improve traffic safety , but to do so without detracting from the quality of life in residential districts . |
| 11 | Many of the projects arose not just because they seemed to be suitable topics for academic research , but at the direct instigation of teachers or sometimes students . |
| 12 | During the late 1920s republican ranks swelled not only with members of an expanding , educated urban middle class but also with recently active monarchists . |
| 13 | Your steel-mesh underflesh has n't quite knitted properly . |
| 14 | For example , if an authority has granted planning permission to A but building has not yet started , B might be able to get the permission revoked . |
| 15 | Comparable findings were obtained in an electrophysiological study by Hirshkowitz , Earle and Paley ( 1978 ) but a significant group-by-ear interaction has not always been found ( Gates and Bradshaw , 1977a ; Zattore , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | British Rail has not yet put an investment proposition to the Department for the west coast main line . |
| 17 | This leaves open the possibility of the inclusion of the PDPA in some format in a future settlement on Afghanistan , even though the principle of representation of the PDPA in an eventual settlement has not yet been accepted by Washington . |
| 18 | However , approval from the relevant authorities has not yet been gained . |
| 19 | Whilst the general power to cap the rates of all authorities has not yet been used , the switch in emphasis from concern with local government spending to local authority spending has nevertheless been marked . |
| 20 | Whether MDC's co-operative outlook would survive market-led development pressures that contravene local authority or community wishes has not yet been tested . |
| 21 | Yet aposematic coloration has not always evolved among kin-grouped prey and we need to identify the variables that are of evolutionary importance . |
| 22 | The UCTA covers not only clauses which exclude such liability in whole , but also those which exclude or restrict it partially ( eg a limitation as to the monetary amount to be paid by way of compensation for such a liability when incurred ) . |
| 23 | A final decision has not yet been taken on the possible move . |
| 24 | Although the decision has not yet been made , that ECR is likely to be approved . |
| 25 | A planning inquiry into its application to build a dry store at Torness to hold the spent fuel has already been held , although the decision has not yet been announced . |
| 26 | Although the full potential of coaxial cable has not yet been exploited , the long term potential of optical fibre is far greater . |
| 27 | The driver has not yet been identified . |
| 28 | The most obvious reason for this is that neuro-science has not yet reached the point where it is possible to describe language as a direct manifestation of underlying physiological of neurological states . |
| 29 | All profess greenness nowadays , of course , but climate change has not yet become part of their instinctual combat kit with its codes telling them instantly what to do when action is joined over , for example , trade union legislation and welfare payments . |
| 30 | This caution is all the more necessary when we realize that there are varieties in which this change has not yet taken place , more than three centuries later , and that there are yet other varieties in which different changes have taken place . |