Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The castle and grounds , which include the greatest arboretum in Poland , at present belong to the colossal state forestry authority , while the collections have been dispersed not only to Poznan , but also to Warsaw , whose National Museum is sitting on the remains of the unique collection of Etruscan and Greek vases ( some are in Moscow , while others were looted by the Germans , along with all the Limoges enamels , some of which regularly turn up in Western collections ) . |
| 2 | Above all , the extremely strong presumption against the legality of the use of nuclear weapons needs not only to be reaffirmed , but also made more specific . |
| 3 | For all these purposes he needs not only to be a good lawyer but to have business acumen and an intimate knowledge of the problems of the trade or industry in question . |
| 4 | Nevertheless one can hardly hope to discuss knowledge in a language any less metaphorical than Descartes ' ( I have myself a few paragraphs back analogized not only to seeing but to ‘ glimpsing ’ and being ‘ illuminated ’ by a ‘ flash ’ , not only to clarity but to drawing a ‘ clear line ’ ) . |
| 5 | One consents not only to actions but also to the holding of certain positions and to the imposition of duties and burdens . |
| 6 | the anthropologist is committed not simply to description , but to analysing and questioning the definitions and assumptions on which social groups base their existence and predicate their activities , and to unveiling that which may be concealed or unrecognised . |
| 7 | To say that I see the squirrel with the black nose is to be committed not only to the existence of a visual experience , but also to the existence of something else . |
| 8 | If the public are to be protected from gratuitous affront , then this will involve applying the manners test not only to public displays but to any matter which invades the privacy of individuals without their consent , which of course extends to unsolicited matter sent through the post . |
| 9 | They have been learning the in professional golf every shot counts and that in order to win , brilliance has not only to be attained , it has to be sustained . |
| 10 | Whether the security could be upheld if the only ground for impeaching it was that Mrs. Duval had no independent advice has not really to be determined . |
| 11 | That this has not always to be the case in religion is demonstrated by religions like Buddhism and Hinduism where laughter plays a big part . |
| 12 | This model will appeal not only to organisations who would like to develop small groups of their managers at regular intervals , but also to those who would like interaction with people from other industries and sectors . |
| 13 | When asked how the tree came about she said ‘ Well , it 's just like God to make something useful out of what we think is rubbish ’ — a comment which referred not only to the fruit but also to her own convict origins . |
| 14 | The work referred not only to the seemingly private areas of our lives like the family album but also the more public construction of motherhood ( baby food ads and Mothercare catalogues ) . |
| 15 | He suggests that authenticity can be understood as relating not only to the language selected to be taught but the task on which the learner is engaged and the social setting which is created in the classroom . |
| 16 | The Bill gives the Secretary of State wide-ranging new powers , relating not only to capping but to the vast number of orders and regulations that he will be able to issue , and even to the grants that will be given to London 's voluntary organisations . |
| 17 | But these are allegorical landscapes , rich in symbolism relating not only to the public domain of universally recognised codes but also to the artist 's personal mythologies . |
| 18 | And Sir Richard Attenborough was there to tell his audience that he felt as if he had come not just to the centre of Europe but of the world . |
| 19 | We had come not only to Wales but , according to the guide-books , to ‘ the heart of Welsh-speaking Wales ’ . |
| 20 | Examples of this outward expansion , combined with an increasing centralization , are confined not just to sites dependent on a single main road , as at Brough-on-Fosse , but also to sites developing at road junctions as in the case of Great Chesterford . |
| 21 | The new law will carry a sentence which could average two years in jail , ‘ designed not just to be a deterrent but to instil new respect for the rule of law ’ . |
| 22 | There are a variety of reasons for this , but one of them is that buying and selling shares is considered not only to be something for the rich but also to be very complex . |
| 23 | Information should relate not only to the country as a whole but should apply to the locality where the expatriate is to live and work . |
| 24 | Maria has to pretend not only to Glass that she no longer loves Leonard , but to Leonard too . |
| 25 | This points not only to a severe differential in the quality of jobs between north and south but also to a differential in their rate of job growth over time . |
| 26 | In case of doubt , Justinian ruled that these provisions applied not just to dispositions charged on the heir , but also to trusts charged on legatees and trust beneficiaries . |
| 27 | They were , by twelfth-century standards , exceedingly rich ; and that applied not only to the Pisa of duomo , baptistry and leaning tower — but to many of its lesser neighbours , Volterra , San Gimignano and the rest . |
| 28 | Edward 's protection of his servants from excommunication — tenants-in-chief had been exempted since the twelfth century — applied not only to those servants who were permanently in his employment , but even to those on ad hoc commissions . |
| 29 | In Director of Public Prosecutions v. Gordon [ 1990 ] R.T.R. 71 it was held that Hobbs v. Clark applied not only to driver 's option cases but also to obligatory section 7(4) cases and this was followed in Paterson v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1990 ] R.T.R. 329 . |
| 30 | His quiet , unassuming exterior hid great determination and considerable inventive ability , which he applied not only to bridges but to a wide range of other technical equipment . |