Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for once this year , Littlewoods ' results will be most keenly awaited not just by its rivals but by the financial community at large . |
| 2 | The national park proposed for the Cairngorms , for example , covers an area of land big enough to include not only the skiing at Cairngorm , but also that at the Lecht and Glenshee as well . |
| 3 | The oldest man on the Derry side , he is also among the most highly regarded not just in Ulster but throughout the country as a whole . |
| 4 | In ridding the Tory Party of its old aristocratic embrace , the Prime Minister has entirely failed — or perhaps has not even tried — to banish oligarchic mores that went with its former upper-crust outlook . |
| 5 | The object is to look at the growth experience of the United Kingdom over the last 80 years or so as a whole — which strangely enough has not yet been examined . |
| 6 | She thought she better buy not only her way into heaven but that of all her husband and relations as well . |
| 7 | So Rose not only knew , but had seen ; somehow she had got hold of Charley 's photographs . |
| 8 | A history of failure in an area of life to which the person is highly committed not only makes him particularly vulnerable to depression following a further experience of failure , but can also raise the probability of further failures . |
| 9 | It is also true that Kilvert had no gift for self-analysis , and further that the diary was impoverished by his widow 's removal from it of the volumes which apparently described not only their courtship and marriage , but the two most profound of Kilvert 's previous affairs of the heart ; though she left the frequent passages describing Kilvert 's passionate attachments to young girls , whose fundamentally erotic nature it is clear that neither she nor Kilvert himself recognized . |
| 10 | Much depends not only on the ability of Britain 's domestic IT industry to provide customers with good products but on how other organisations respond to using the technology . |
| 11 | Microsoft must foresee where the market is going , where and how to direct its effort — and do so better not just than lively young rivals eager to up-end it like IBM , but than powerful companies moving in from outside the industry . |
| 12 | The strength with which particular potentially contradictory relationships are held together depends not only on the amount of objective ‘ fit ’ between the components but also on the strength of the articulating principle involved , which is in turn connected with objective social factors . |
| 13 | It is now being restored again , one can only hope not too thoroughly , given its overpowering simplicity . |
| 14 | Programmes were long over , but the white screen with the volume down served not badly as a night light ; any of the lamps in the shoebox room kept Sam awake , and total darkness made him frightened . |
| 15 | I insist we also do a physical check of each of these refrigerators three times a day , manually logging not just air temperature but core food temperature . |
| 16 | Truths of geometry can be proved , and so known not only to be true but also to be necessarily true . |
| 17 | To make matters even more complicated , there are two quite distinct kinds of mood-change , for the cat 's pupils will become greatly enlarged not only when it sees something pleasant but also when it sees something terribly threatening . |
| 18 | Erm yes the cycle work working party has been very successful i er experiment and it has been much appreciated not only by people in the city but by the the other parties that have taken part in it . |
| 19 | He was and fiercely opposed not only to the Shah 's monarchism but also to his foreign policy . |
| 20 | To have a chance of winning this superb prize , just answer the three questions below and send your answers in to arrive not later than 28th August . |
| 21 | People who have grown up with the sport when the pressures were not too great perhaps do not always think of others . |
| 22 | But if they wo n't talk — or perhaps do n't even know precisely what goes on — we 've shown our hand , and got no tricks . |
| 23 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 24 | And she knew , although they would never have dreamt of telling her , perhaps did n't even admit it to themselves , that they were afraid of her . |
| 25 | He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference . |
| 26 | From some remarks in Sir Alfred Ayer 's autobiography ( Part of my Life Vol. 1 , 1978 ) , it seems that the two met infrequently and perhaps did not altogether get on . |
| 27 | Now , they were combined and synthesized on aesthetic principles which apparently did not always depend on the content of the subject matter , although it is difficult to be certain in an area such as this . |
| 28 | Some of the guilds were quite large , especially in the greater towns and cities , and wealthy enough to have not only their own chantry priest but also their own altars within the church , and there were even instances when funds allowed for the building of an additional aisle as a guild chapel . |
| 29 | The council 's emergency planning officer , Mike Hill , said : ‘ High tides alone do n't necessarily mean flooding , there has to be a combination of winds and tides , and this may not happen . |
| 30 | As I said , spring ninety four is gon na be the latest date for the site we want to start that phase as early as possible so that we can then get onto to the other phase as early as possible because we obviously do n't particularly want to wait until nineteen ninety five ninety six to , to finish the whole thing . |