Example sentences of "[noun sg] not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to then work in the future not only to develop South Africa but to develop the region Angola , Mozambique , all the other countries . |
| 2 | For Italian Vogue he dyed the skin of Linda Evangelista nearly black and painted Rachel Williams silver not just to produce a great photograph ( although he has produced many ) , but to synthesise a vision of fashion that is more significant than showing clothes . |
| 3 | With our new store opening programme running to around 20 locations a year , it has taken relatively little time for the idea of the supermarket bakery not just to gain credence , but to become remarkably successful . |
| 4 | Once more , you want to aim with your research not just to acquire enough facts spread over your pages to give a feeling of the times , but to acquire so many that you have enough and to spare and can choose among your store for the one that does more than merely give a notion of the time you are writing about . |
| 5 | This fat book is a worthy attempt not only to educate the electorate but to inform candidates of all parties and of none ; they is even some entertainment offered in the shape of ‘ essays ’ by Guardian scribblers such as Hugo Young , Andrew Rawnsley and David McKie . |
| 6 | A feature of the morphoclimatic zones recognized by the French school ( Tricart , 1957 ) was the attempt not only to relate such morphoclimatic zones to climates and to processes but also to soils and to vegetation . |
| 7 | Outlining his " America First " platform , Buchanan stated his intention not merely to challenge Bush , but to transform the political debate surrounding his party 's choice of nominee . |
| 8 | We must persuade industry not merely to give away their tax- deductible loot as a sop to worthy environmental causes and charities but actually to find ways of integrating environmental capital into their accounts , as part of their business — a kind of natural account — a problem we are researching at the moment . |
| 9 | Can an exhaust brake be fitted to my 1989 Range Rover Vogue V8 auto as , on long declines it will gain enough momentum not only to rip the skin off a rice pudding , but take the table and chairs with it . |
| 10 | MUFC may find that scoring against teams Id not enough to make them roll over and give up anymore . |
| 11 | It emerged early on that each side was determined to deny the other the means of generating enough income not only to prosecute the war but also to govern the country . |
| 12 | The mind of the human observer is endowed with creative imagination ; this allows the scientist not only to make discoveries about the laws of nature but to tamper with them and exploit them to his own advantage . |
| 13 | Israel 's immediate reappointment of the mayors and municipal structure was a deliberate measure not only to ensure normality but also to thwart the emergence of any all-West Bank leadership . |
| 14 | There is , for most of the century , no simple suggestion of a dominant class resisting a popular culture and attempting to supplant it with a preferred alternative , but rather a willingness not only to tolerate it but to accept a functional involvement . |
| 15 | We have a responsibility not only to provide businesses with access to information , but also with structures that enable them to talk to each other and to trade with the residential community ; and , |
| 16 | For example , a child who steals and breaks another youngster 's penknife is required to save up enough money not only to replace the knife , but also to buy a small gift betokening regret . |
| 17 | In a way this new fight against censorship is an opportunity not simply to defend and ensure intellectual freedom but to affirm that a profession does exist which essentially safeguards this freedom . |
| 18 | That is why today , some years on , at a Lloyd club near you , there is the opportunity not only to play tennis ( naturally ) squash , and racket ball , but also to benefit from the wider aspects of health and fitness via the clubs fitness facilities and aerobics classes . |
| 19 | The guild provided working-class women with an opportunity not only to escape domestic confines and meet informally in local branches , but to engage with social and political issues far removed from traditional religious and philanthropic pursuits . |
| 20 | For the union , it was an opportunity not only to protect its long-held privileges — such as consultation over pit closures and the cutting of coal on five days a week only — but also to demonstrate the power of extra-parliamentary opposition to the ‘ elected dictatorship ’ in Whitehall . |
| 21 | I agree with David Marquand ( MT May ) that the Labour Party has an ideal opportunity not only to attack the Tory government record but also develop an exciting alternative strategy . |
| 22 | The answer follows through : it is , as a minimum , to provide the graduates of higher education with the capacity not merely to go on learning , but also to go on being critical of all they encounter in thought and action . |
| 23 | We could learn from the American experience of using the National Guard not only to help with civil disasters but also with drug enforcement , which are both areas in which we can not have too much help , provided that it is properly directed and properly trained . |
| 24 | The law not there to protect the patients , it 's there to protect doctors . |
| 25 | This involves reference not only to average wealth and the structure of employment , but also to the social distribution of wealth and its spending . |
| 26 | His leadership characteristics include ingenuity and determination not only to unearth agents of change , but to see that they are profitably applied : he took robotic ideas from Austin Rover into food manufacturing . |
| 27 | From the 1880s the regime made plain its determination not only to halt any further movement in the direction of public participation but in some respects to reverse the reforms of the 1860s . |
| 28 | The Ukrainian authorities have appealed to the UN and national governments for assistance not only to dismantle the Chernobyl plant but to wind down the republic 's whole nuclear programme . |
| 29 | Treaty , included the right not only to take up activities as a self-employed person but also to pursue them in the broad sense of the term and that ‘ The renting of premises for business purposes furthers the pursuit of an occupation and therefore falls within the scope of article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 30 | Also , cl 3.3 deals with the right not only to reject the goods in question , but grants a right to cancel the balance of the order as well . |