Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay so it covers not only illness , but also accident as well . |
| 2 | It has been argued that it covers not only fairness , in the sense of fairness to the accused , but also in the sense of ensuring that , in the eyes of the public , the highest standards of justice are upheld and it appears to the world at large that the accused is getting a fair trial . |
| 3 | Section 8(1) covers not only force but the threat of force . |
| 4 | Efficiency incorporates not only quantity and quality of achievement but also preservation of his own safety and health and that of others who might be involved as working partners , passengers or the general public in the neighbourhood . |
| 5 | ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ , written in 1927 , contains not only material quoted in Eliot 's 1926 survey , ‘ Lancelot Andrewes ’ , and recollections from Eliot 's own life ( some of which he catalogued when reminiscing in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ) . |
| 6 | It also has serious implications for the professional health of the Authority and its schools , since the belief that getting on is merely a matter of saying and doing what significant others wish to hear and see produces not just disaffection and cynicism but also unthinking conformity and the loss of The professional analysis and debate which are essential to educational progress . |
| 7 | This has been used in space and conveniently produces not only electricity but also water . |
| 8 | The fact that the average adult spends a minimum of 26 hours sitting in front of a television set in any one week represents not only time lost in sharing activities with their children and young people , but time lost in influencing and controlling them . |
| 9 | network membership supplies not only information , but also the tacit skills which enable individuals to become competent and accepted members of occupational groups . |
| 10 | The foal receives not only affection and security from its mother , but also acceptance . |
| 11 | α-granule nucleoids have been demonstrated by electronmicroscopic studies in the canalicular system ( White , 1974 ) , and it is likely that normal secretion involves not only fusion of these granules with the canalicular system but also platelet contraction . |
| 12 | The programme also aims to broaden Christian communicators ' understanding of ‘ development ’ , which embraces not only food , clothing , shelter and employment , but also culture , ethnicity and religion . |
| 13 | ‘ And the shrinking affects everything-not just tape measures ? ’ |
| 14 | Over the last 30 years I have kept a fairly meticulous diary , and this includes not just fishing detail but an accurate record of the conditions . |
| 15 | The constituents of complete dry dog foods mimic a dog 's natural diet and includes not only meat , but cereals and vegetables . |
| 16 | The range of disciplines includes not only philosophy and history but a broad spread of modern European languages and literature . |
| 17 | Interactive Home Systems ( IHS ) was set up in 1989 in Redmond , Washington , with the aim of selling high quality visual information to homes , schools , public institutions and businesses , drawing on a constantly expanding visual information library which includes not only art but also history , science , travel , current affairs and popular culture . |
| 18 | Base is here defined following Williams ( 1983 ) , so that it includes not only production in terms of industrial structure and experience of it but also aspects of social reproduction , including elements of the domestic and of the welfare system . |
| 19 | At first sight the paradox that liberalism requires not only freedom of contract but also freedom to breach any contract is quickly resolved . |
| 20 | Success with such questions requires not only knowledge of the measures concerned but also general knowledge . |
| 21 | To make a contribution towards this end requires not only knowledge of alternatives and commitment to putting them into practice but also an understanding of how social policy is made and implemented . |
| 22 | Obtaining any professional qualification requires not only vocation and commitment , but also great investment in both personal and financial terms . |
| 23 | Adhesion requires not only integrin ligands on the endothelium , but also activation signals because T-cell integrins can not bind well until they are activated . |
| 24 | His position as fly-half requires not only skill and vision , but also confidence and experience . |
| 25 | One has to acknowledge that homelessness is not merely a housing problem but is also a social problem , which requires not merely money but an approach to discourage and prevent young people from becoming homeless . |
| 26 | It takes not only effort but courage of another kind to love again after a certain age , when the body may be far from beautiful — and a sense of humour , too . |
| 27 | This reflects not only homophobia but also sexism , since gay men are stereotyped as effeminate , too much like women . |
| 28 | This entails not only familiarity with the instrumentation used and experience in application of the method but also an appreciation of the basics of analysis — calibration , control of contamination , the proper use of blanks , sample preservation etc . |
| 29 | This cue prompts not only breeding , but also their annual moult , and the vast journeys of migrating birds . |
| 30 | By the time of the Middle Ages when the two swords of the secular and the spiritual were sheathed together in ruling Christendom , the official spokesman for orthodoxy , St Thomas Aquinas , could declare : ‘ Heresy is a sin which merits not only excommunication but death , for it is worse to corrupt the faith which is the life of the soul than to issue counterfeit coins which administer to the secular life . |