Example sentences of "[adj] [not/n't] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's exploit this , let let's use this not just for the existing members , let's use this as a recruitment tool . |
| 2 | We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ? |
| 3 | One sees this not only on the ground , travelling through these parts , but it is also brought out clearly on the Ordnance map . |
| 4 | It does this not only in its narrative preoccupations ( active male protagonist , with woman as victim or sexual object ) but also — and crucially — in its conventions , in the way the camera moves and produces the image on the screen . |
| 5 | Barth was driven to this not only by his own exceptionally and relentlessly enquiring mind , but also by the shaking of the foundations of the world he had known under the impact of the First World War . |
| 6 | However , management is constrained in this not only by the technical capabilities , but also by the requirement to break even on the basis of rate of return above the norm . |
| 7 | Even horses that are full brothers or sisters , and have been handled by the same people in the same conditions all their lives , can be very different not only in looks but also in personality . |
| 8 | Both the androgynous evasion of sexual difference , and the psychoanalytic insistence on it , disavow the homoerotic knowledge of its other side ( s ) and the perverse dynamic which so radically implicates masculine and feminine not only within each other but , much more disturbingly , with what each excludes . |
| 9 | It struck me as a trivial , but irritating error ; the dust-pan would have been conspicuous not only from the five ground-floor doorways opening on to the hall , but also from the staircase and the first-floor balconies . |
| 10 | The quality of inspection varied enormously and was dependent not just on the inspectors ' powers of observation but also on their view of how young refugees should be treated . |
| 11 | Therefore , the change in the dividend was dependent not solely on the target layout ratio but also on some adjustment factor . |
| 12 | The extent to which new finds will eventually ease Canada 's problem will of course be dependent not only on the nature of the finds but on the level of demand . |
| 13 | The safety of an army in the field is dependent not only on defending itself against direct attack but also on its maintaining open communications with its base … we should be as much concerned with threats to the rear as with threats to the front . |
| 14 | Generally , the idea 's progress through the process is dependent not only on the quality of the idea and its enhancement , but also upon the amount of drive the originator exerts . |
| 15 | It 's clear not just in his work , but also in his demeanour . |
| 16 | As the purpose of teaching is to produce a planned change in students , it is essential that those whose responsibility it is to produce the change should be clear not only about their intentions but about the assumptions on which those intentions are based . |
| 17 | Christians were distressed because the age of revelation was over ( and they were acutely conscious of this with the passing of the apostolic generation , as is made clear not only by the speedy recognition in the second century that their writings were determinative for the Christian faith , but also by the deep sense of nostalgia to be found in the earliest of the sub-apostolic writers like Polycarp and Ignatius ) . |
| 18 | Secondly , we have been trying to develop an understanding of locality in human agency ; one responsive not only to social or cultural processes but also to instinctive demands and human interaction . |
| 19 | This is grievous news , grievous not only for this and other universities but for the nation ; for it is a grave national misfortune to be governed by those who do not know what a university is and what distinguishes it from other institutions of learning and study , not to mention training . |
| 20 | The present bridge was built to an adventurous design wherein the cast iron sections forming the arches were pin-jointed not only at the ends but also in the centre of the span . |
| 21 | ‘ But I ask you to be Americans again , to be interested not just in getting but in giving … not just in looking out for yourselves , but in looking out for others . ’ |
| 22 | Customers were becoming much more discerning — interested not just in price , but quality of products . |
| 23 | Like Eliot , More had been interested not only in the classics and Christianity , but also in the East . |
| 24 | Chemists are interested not only in isolated and dissociating species but also in colliding molecules and their reactions . |
| 25 | Pericles , in the funeral speech attributed to him by Thucydides , was clear that a withdrawal by the citizen from public life into privacy was not acceptable : " Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well … we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business ; we say that he has no business here at all . " |
| 26 | Host countries are interested not only in how many jobs are created for how long at what cost , but also what kinds of jobs , are created . |
| 27 | Churchill himself was interested not only in this but also in the wider implications of nuclear developments in the 1950s . |
| 28 | Lowther was interested not merely in profits , but also in ways of solving some of the immense technological difficulties confronting coalmining in the eighteenth century . |
| 29 | Erm to curtail it 's competitive event er would be an absolute disaster shows that erm in simply because it is popular not just within the airlines but also the business er customers |
| 30 | Hand-painted in ten different colourways to match the china , the tiles are proving popular not only for the floor and fireplace surrounds , but for brightening up the area around kitchen Agas . |