Example sentences of "[vb base] not [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , changes in the Earth 's climate involve not only winds and clouds in the atmosphere , but also the interactive effect of the biosphere , ocean currents , human influences on atmospheric chemistry , the Earth 's orbital characteristics , the reflective properties of the planet , and the distribution of water between atmosphere , hydrosphere and cryosphere ’ . |
| 2 | On economic development , we have failed to pursue the policies of partnership between Government and industry which are commonplace elsewhere in Europe and which involve not only management but trade unions and workers ' representatives in a much more positive way than anything that has happened under this Government . |
| 3 | If we chronicle not how Eliot 's reputation was advanced , but how Eliot 's poetry ( and all modern poetry ) came to be understood , the part played by Allen Tate bulks very large and honourably . |
| 4 | I mean not even Russia and they 're well behind the times |
| 5 | The hole afair wood be a jôke if it wer not so seerius . |
| 6 | From this and other types of experiment , it is beyond dispute that , even by the most rigid of the criteria used by mammalian psychologists , Drosophila show not merely habituation and sensitization but classical and operant conditioning based on visual , olfactory and even touch cues . |
| 7 | Both cover not only painting but also the decorative arts . |
| 8 | These are included in relation only to limited classes of investments , which , however , cover not only money market investments but also debt investments ; it is therefore likely that futures contracts linked to debt securities are included , even if they fall outside the money market exemption ( because the transaction is too small or the debt securities have too long a maturity ) ; and ( 6 ) Countries , monetary authorities or certain supranational institutions . |
| 9 | Size of population is the first question : some polyptychs enumerate not only peasant households but individual members of them ( as for instance : " X , his wife Y , and their three children A , B and C have one mansus [ peasant-holding ] " ) . |
| 10 | Locke aroused considerable controversy with his suggestion that ‘ since we know not wherein thinking consists ’ , it may be , for all we know , that nothing more than matter is necessary for thought , and that God might have ‘ given to some systems of matter fitly disposed , a power to perceive and think ’ . |
| 11 | These convey not only shadow but also heat , his suns gaining in intensity from a surrounding ring of black . |
| 12 | Trotsky ( 1971 ) suggested that fascist governments emerge not where class forces are ‘ balanced ’ , but rather when the bourgeoisie has already lost its battle with the working class ; only in these circumstances will capitalists concede a very high level of autonomy to a fascist political party or social movement which they can not control . |
| 13 | in such circumstances temperature itself poses no problem , but in both summer and winter actively decomposing material can not only reduce oxygen supply but also produce not only carbon dioxide but toxic gases such as hydrogen sulphide ( ‘ rotten eggs ’ ) . |
| 14 | The most unusual vision of all belongs to those animals which use not only sunlight but also the light they manufacture naturally . |
| 15 | This time even the much vaunted exit polls , which ask not how people intend to vote but how they did vote , got it wrong . |
| 16 | Dress not only covers and decorates the body but instils in the wearer its own characteristic strengths and weaknesses . |
| 17 | The weak position of women in the labour market , and their responsibilities within the home as domestic workers and child rearers , affect not only women 's access to housing , but its structure and design . |
| 18 | But the two countries share not only embarrassment but a common mission . |
| 19 | The hardware manufacturers themselves offer not only systems software , which comprises the most basic sets of instructions that make computers operate and with which users are normally powerless to interfere . |
| 20 | At Milson Airport , Palmerston North , in North Island , Bruce Farquar of the Manawatu Districts Aero Club showed me how they offer not only flight training but also aerial photography and with the slogan Time is money … flying reduces costs publicise their light aircraft passenger and freight services . |
| 21 | Simply written test items do not necessarily disadvantage the lowest attaining pupils , while some orally administered questions do . |
| 22 | All such variations contain the same general idea : " we " , who are true kin , share a common substance through our shared links with the same ancestral past ; but wherever descent is traced through both males and females the distinction between those who are unmarriageable because they rate as true kin and those who are marriageable because they do not so rate becomes very fuzzy . |
| 23 | There 's so much random stuff that you do n't just details irrelevant . |
| 24 | Now in this particular case I 'm using a tap funnel Tap funnel just as it 's it 's Erm the concentrated acid you do n't just sort of pour it in and run away and leave it to it . |
| 25 | So with logs , if you can draw a picture and Do n't just sort of look at a picture in a book there 's a graph of Y equals log X. Do it yourself . |
| 26 | tangle it , just trying to tangle it up , cos the idea being if he gets round a weed , often enough he go that means , basically it gives him a lever , I mean they 're very clever you know , these fish , they 're not , they do n't just sort of sit there and wait . |
| 27 | I mean , they do n't just sort of walk there , they have school visits and things like that to do , as well . |
| 28 | Dear Mr Forster is a homicidal author , I think — and I do n't altogether acquit Ivy of Simon Napier 's death [ More Women than Men ] . |
| 29 | But I do n't completely sort of detest her or anything . |
| 30 | I admit I might not have paid much attention to an anonymous delivery girl , but they do n't normally bolt when they see me , which attracted my attention . |