Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One or more of these can be placed in the polybox , but not so it directly touches the bag holding your fish . |
| 2 | Overall , Browne is representative of the English florid style of choral composition at not only its most assured but also at its most imaginative . |
| 3 | Yet this was not only his most effective period in office but also the job he enjoyed most . |
| 4 | But in 1987 the party , at all levels , was forced to accept that many of Labour 's traditional policies — not merely its recently acquired ones — were electorally unsaleable . |
| 5 | he never made any thing else in his image , but he made you to be created in his image and with that there 's that status , were not just a more intelligent animal , were not just something else that God made even , but were that , that peak of his creative genius , the peak of it , the very pinnacle of it , not because of what we are , but because of the image , the pattern that he was using , his own self , created us in his image , so that gave us status but it gives us responsibility . |
| 6 | Thus with perceptual verbs in the passive , the to infinitive involves a subtle shifting of the perceptual verb into the conceptual field with the consequent evocation of an inference and not just something directly perceived . |
| 7 | Erm on this occasion please remember we have a chairman , not just me here . |
| 8 | And that puts everyone at risk — not just yours truly . |
| 9 | Oh so it 's not just you then ? |
| 10 | ‘ But he is not just anyone else , is he ? |
| 11 | Well it 's a case , I 've got to get rid of that thing cos I can not just I just can not afford fifteen quid a day petrol ! |
| 12 | Not like what bloody curly all hair ! |
| 13 | you 're not like it then ? |
| 14 | From the child 's standpoint , efforts to save a grossly disturbed marriage without rectifying the causes of disturbance ( not infrequently themselves sexually based ) are worthless . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not really anything very important , Michael , it 's rather a small thing we 're asking of you . |
| 16 | Not really I just say that because one er person who completed a questionnaire was quite er was quite nasty in their comments and er it is n't really appropriate when people are volunteers . |
| 17 | Not really I just made him do it |
| 18 | Many teenage farm workers ' sons are soon earning as much as , if not more than , their fathers , and not surprisingly they soon demand the independence from parental authority which their economic independence confers . |
| 19 | Not even one as impossible as you . ’ |
| 20 | Is there not even something rather arrogant about the assumption that the human mind and capacity to make things supply the only proper model for conceiving of a supreme reality ? |
| 21 | Many witnesses told lies against Jesus against Jesus not even they however could make their stories agree . |
| 22 | Wodehouse translated into Italian ; and not even someone as ignorant as I was could possibly have believed that Wodehouse 's England was the England I would find . |
| 23 | But that is only how we perceive it , how it registers itself to our physical senses , and not how it really is . |
| 24 | erm Monsieur Mitterand 's relationship with erm Chancellor Schmidt for example is certainly not yet anything like as close erm as Chancellor Schmidt 's relationship with ex-President Giscard was , but they are both socialists , erm they do have a certain amount in common , and I see no reason why they should n't quite quickly build another erm relationship erm that would be quite similar to what happened before . |
| 25 | Oh , I think the majority always have worked hard , but they , some of them became quite flamboyant and extravagant in their gestures about what they , how they wanted to change things , and I think nowadays they , perhaps sadly , really , they feel they , they ca n't so they just knuckle down to it all . |
| 26 | I do this only because there is n't perhaps anybody else . |
| 27 | And if that was n't enough it also offered an impressive array of sexual permutations : gay , bi and toyboys , as well as old-fashioned adultery . |
| 28 | Maybe it 's the knowledge that my history is n't entirely mine alone . |
| 29 | It was n't just us though , there 's Rich as well you see . |
| 30 | They look as though they they do n't really they actually intransitive . |