Example sentences of "[vb past] not [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan worked because in this new environment the young Prince found not only friendship but also the stimulus of intellectual competition . |
| 2 | Here for once a rural industry had been set up regardless of the availability of local labour or any need to create employment ; at first people in the Weald lacked not merely skill but also , it would seem , sufficient incentive . |
| 3 | Mr Robertson said there were ‘ serious questions of substance ’ arising from Mr Hurd 's statement , which concerned not just amendment 27 , but the treaty itself . |
| 4 | Rather different were those heads who avoided not only confrontation but also contact , taking refuge in their office and resorting to memoranda rather than face-to-face encounters . |
| 5 | The Commission provoked not only disappointment but anger and resentment by another recommendation to the effect " that the intermarriage of the congenital deaf should be strongly discouraged , as well as the intermarriage of blood relations , especially where any hereditary tendency to deaf mutism prevails in the family . " |
| 6 | She and her staff organized not only school lunches , but refreshments for all games and meetings , sports days , Speech Days , and Dinners and Lunches for the Old Stopfordians and several outside groups . |
| 7 | So , early this century , the regulatory position might be briefly summarised as protecting the minority of people driven into debt to make ends meet ; on the assumption that they faced not only hardship in itself but also particular risk of exploitation by unscrupulous lenders . |
| 8 | During his Oxford years , Isaac Abendana became known as a resident authority on all matters Jewish and the chief purveyor of Hebrew books , a situation he consolidated by inventing the Oxford diary , which in his original form included not only information relevant to university men but also a yearly essay on some aspect of Jewish religion and culture . |
| 9 | Yet the right to dominate , the unquestioned superiority of the bourgeois as a species , implied not only inferiority but ideally an accepted , willing inferiority , as in the relation between man and woman ( which once again symbolises much about the bourgeois world view ) . |
| 10 | Justin came from Nablus in Palestine to Ephesus where , according to his own account ( which may not be plain prose ) , he studied with teachers of several different schools — Stoic , Aristotelian , Pythagorean , Platonist — expecting from the last named not only clarity for his mind but light for his soul . |
| 11 | In our recent study of papers in the mid-1980s we broadened the focus and examined not only rape but also other forms of sexual assault and not only reporting of trials but also other stages , including the search and post-conviction . |
| 12 | A fossil fuel meant any fuel which derived from decayed animal or plant matter : this encompassed not only coal , but also gas and oil . |
| 13 | In the first batch , the Preston by-pass ( 1958 ) and the Lancaster and Maidstone by-passes ( 1960 ) formed not only part of the national motorway pattern but also constituted important local features in the urban environment . |
| 14 | By steadily eroding the townsmen 's monopoly over urban trade and craft , the State assisted not only serf entrepreneurs but also their noble masters who claimed much of their profit in the form of quit-rent . |
| 15 | His experience spanned not merely politics but also business , the United Nations and the Central Intelligence Agency , of which he had been director . |
| 16 | Lady Grubb picked up her plate of junket and went to eat it in the drawing-room , shaking with a passion she did n't care to scrutinize because it contained not only fury but also amazement and fear . |
| 17 | Profitable mass production necessitated not only employer control over the planning and organisation of work , but also reliable , attentive and loyal workers to perform it . |
| 18 | He did not always side with the city , though he did concern himself with urban and industrial problems . |
| 19 | Stores were distributed in pony treks that carried not only ammunition and food but also mail and the force 's own newspaper . |
| 20 | Demolition day was a cause for celebration , schoolchildren were given time off to watch and tenants ' leaders said not before time . |
| 21 | Well this , they said not before end of May . |
| 22 | The attack was so sudden that Riven had not even time to be afraid . |
| 23 | The students had not only training in teaching methods but in growing their own food , and we had twenty acres of rice land , an acre of garden , a Berkshire boar imported to improve the strength and size of the village pigs , and several pure-bred cocks to convert the village hens from laying two clutches of a dozen eggs each year to something like 150 bigger and better eggs . |
| 24 | These had not only control of promotions in them , with powers of life and death over their men , but even the right to impose their own systems of drill and tactics . |
| 25 | Googol 's tone suggested not only mockery but yearning , impossible desire . |