Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new economic freedom in Russia and today 's new private capital needs not only to grow , but to find some moral refinement and justification in the eyes of society . |
| 2 | Accordingly , your title needs not only to indicate what the essay will be about , but also the point of view it will adopt concerning whatever it is about . |
| 3 | And it needs not only to provide access to files or data , but actually to connect applications running anywhere on the network — and through the application , to connect the minds that are putting the applications to work . |
| 4 | The Government needs not only to help with after-school childcare but to put a proper amount of money into that service . |
| 5 | Gandhi 's understanding of Truth and the essential unity of all that exists means that he has not only to realize his highest Self or Ātman but also recognize his oneness with all his fellow men and with all sub-human forms of life . |
| 6 | The area of site control is complicated by the fact that the partner or manager of the job has not only to control his own staff and their performance , but also has to ensure — on behalf of his client — that the work being done under his direction by third parties is also properly progressed . |
| 7 | As things are , he has not only to invent his method , but also do most of the spadework for himself . |
| 8 | In order to prove himself as an aggro leader , a fan has not only to prove his ability to lead charges but also the fact that he really means what he is doing . |
| 9 | This means that Locke has not only to substantiate the claim that all ideas are derived from experience , but also to explain how it is that our reason gets from those ideas to certain items of knowledge which others said were innate . |
| 10 | Arthur is inclined to be delicate and it 's feared he has not long to live . |
| 11 | The hon. Member for Dagenham wants not only to recreate a GLC but , as my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow , West said , for it to be bigger and for it to control the police , which the old GLC never did . |
| 12 | ‘ He has n't long to live , ’ was the answer . |
| 13 | Ad hoc reports are an essential part of any system that aspires not merely to process data routinely but to permit management information to be creamed off the top . |
| 14 | It tends not only to slow the sphere significantly , but it may also affect its intended direction . |
| 15 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 16 | He intends not only to accelerate privatisation but also to reduce state control of ‘ strategic ’ sectors , such as mining and telecommunications . |
| 17 | The project aims not only to resettle youngsters who struggle to lay down roots in the capital , but to stop them heading South in the first place . |
| 18 | ( c ) The Act applies not only to land and buildings but also to fixed and moveable structures , including any vehicle or aircraft ( s. 1(3) ( a ) ) . |
| 19 | This applies not only to work that is strictly social scientific , but also to that with , for example , a more medical or demographic orientation . |
| 20 | Former general Fidel Ramos , elected president last year , seems not only to have won over former coup plotters but also to show deregulatory promise . |
| 21 | It thus appears most unlikely that Fahreddin Acemi could have held the kadilik of Edirne for a significant period and much more likely that he never held it at all ; and in this respect , in his not holding a kadilik simultaneously with the Muftilik , Fahreddin Acemi seems not only to differ from his predecessors but also to resemble all his successors in the office of Mufti . |
| 22 | In the Inca state this process of regression seems not merely to have profoundly compromised the superego and to have replaced it with the person of the Inca and his fellow Children of the Sun , but also to have attacked the ego in general and to have reduced the Indians to an apathetic , dependent and passive state in which the higher ego-functions of decision-making , initiative , and individuality were markedly reduced . |
| 23 | Without entering into the substantive details of the agreement or of the 1990 convention for its application , which appears not yet to have entered into force , it may be noted that it sets out rules for crossing the signatory states ' frontiers not just for their own citizens but also for citizens of all EC Member States , and the Convention of Application distinguishes between treatment at the internal and external borders of the signatory states . |
| 24 | The quotation from the Bhagavad Gita , on the other hand , appears not only to recognise the existence of many gods but also to support the worship of many gods . |
| 25 | By spending three million pounds diversifying in this way he hopes not only to create new employment , but also to save buildings that would otherwise have fallen into disrepair . |
| 26 | This is because Culpitt endeavours not only to provide some useful insights into such thorny issues as welfare rights and obligations as well as the concept of need ( which should be read in conjunction with Doyal and Gough 's ( 1991 ) recent analysis ) but also to chart the way in which the management of welfare has been transformed as a result of the drift towards privatization and the emerging emphasis on the purchase rather than the provision of welfare in the public sphere . |
| 27 | This serves not only to allow the University to contribute towards the revitalization of the economic life of the province , but to develop courses that relate directly to contemporary society . |
| 28 | This ‘ jargon ’ serves not only to highlight distinctions which looser , more commonsensical terms might obscure , but they imply most emphatically that narrative is governed not by any relation to reality , but by its own internal laws and logic . |
| 29 | For the course seeks not only to prepare graduates for immediate employment in a range of positions within publishing but also to provide them with the intellectual equipment to become in the longer term the managers , the decision-makers and strategy-formulators . |
| 30 | In short , wage inflation operates not only to divert resources from investment in the country 's manufacturing capacity but also to make borrowing and exporting more and more difficult . |