Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [not/n't] [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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Truths of geometry can be proved , and so known not only to be true but also to be necessarily true . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was and fiercely opposed not only to the Shah 's monarchism but also to his foreign policy . |
| 8 | I I feel in the early days the the social contract was n't particularly well known and I think our party initially felt that these things were better handled not though a proper set protocol in the Maastricht treaty . |
| 9 | In 1945 , papers in Bath , Carlisle , Darlington , Scarborough and North Shields all published not more than 15,000 copies a day ( the Scarborough Evening News published 8,000 ) . |
| 10 | But now to be ‘ orientated ’ is widely seen not as helpful guidance but as a test one has to submit to . |
| 11 | She felt stunned , as if what he had done to her had somehow paralysed not only her limbs but her senses too , leaving her tense . |
| 12 | Thus social policy must be critically evaluated not only for its failure to eradicate poverty among older women ( and , to a lesser extent , men ) , but also because it occupies a central role in producing and legitimating both the poverty of a substantial proportion of older people and the marked inequalities between older women and men . |
| 13 | The new Association is best seen not so much as a pressure group founded to further the professional interests of teachers of English , but rather as a class-based mobilization which drew in not only most professors of English Language and Literature , but also like-minded politicians , administrators , and " men of letters " . |
| 14 | These graduates have already supplied not only their name and address but also names of colleagues , which are now held on database . |
| 15 | When the attempt to force the passage with naval craft on 18 March went disastrously wrong , de Robeck soon persuaded not only himself but many of the senior Allied commanders that the passage could not be forced by ships alone ; a military expedition was also required . |
| 16 | Continuity was nevertheless provided not only by Allan Hayhurst but by Dr Eric Stanley Greenaway , who was elected President at the Edinburgh Congress in 1959 , having been a Vice-President of the Association since 1953 . |
| 17 | The novelty and often the downright dishonesty of claims by royal clerks to livings which appeared to be legitimately filled already led not only to vigorous litigation , but even more seriously to insecurity , bitterness and local violence . |
| 18 | Nicknamed Janet Gaynor by the make-up artists because of her resemblance to the star , she was generally liked not simply because of her sunny nature , but because she had a special hobby ; she read the teacups . |
| 19 | It is worth adding , as something of an aside , that the experimental result just described not only gives reasons for preferring the associative account but also seems to demand an explanation in terms of acquired equivalence rather than acquired distinctiveness . |
| 20 | Further , some very salient Liverpool dialect phenomena such as syllable-final aspirated fricatives ( e.g. [ bu ? h ] ‘ bush ’ ) are probably best described not quantitatively , but qualitatively in terms of the articulatory setting peculiar to the dialect , which can account for a number of superficially quite diverse phonetic characteristics . |
| 21 | If this interpretation is correct , curriculum managers who wish to manage the curriculum in the sense of modifying it so that it is better adapted to the needs of real children and a real society , will be best advised not simply to resist and criticise , but rather to use the power that many people at all levels of the system actually have . |
| 22 | The experiments just mentioned not only introduce a much-needed control procedure but they also extend the generality of the effect . |
| 23 | In all the major states of Europe it was still made not even by the government as a whole but by a small group within it — the chief minister and foreign minister , supplemented according to circumstances and personalities by those for war , colonies or other concerned departments — with the support or at least the acquiescence of the monarch . |
| 24 | Christians have always proclaimed not simply Jesus ' teaching , but something about Jesus . |
| 25 | In this report the mature Ramsey specially valued not only the word uncouth- nesses but also the pointed description of his nonconforming character in the phrase on his own lines . |
| 26 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
| 27 | It seems too that analogizing is so deeply involved not only in thinking but in perception that there is no hope of escaping from it by isolating pure observations from which induction can start . |
| 28 | Instead , at the urgent appeal of the French , on 17 August they had loyally struck not only at Austria but into East Prussia . |
| 29 | From late 1530 onwards , Henry became even more determined not only that his matrimonial case should be heard in England , but also that he should reassert his imperial status which had been usurped by the papacy . |
| 30 | She had been to one of their meetings , and was even more confirmed not only in the conviction that they were right , but that her own group should get involved in trying to organise women to campaign for wages for housework . |