Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not only to Testify as to how , where and when the Lord Jesus had entered my heart but also give the punters a detailed account of the innermost secrets of my heart . |
| 2 | Despite the failure to ratify SALT II both Superpowers adhered to the terms of the treaty ( they continued to do so until 1986 ) and in mid-1982 a new round of talks on strategic weapons began , called START , which aimed not simply to place limits on strategic arms but to reduce them . |
| 3 | An illustrative case may be found in the work and practical impact of William Morris , who sought not only to recognize but also to ameliorate the social and aesthetic impact of the machine , partly under the influence of socialist ideas . |
| 4 | Laura 's problem was that she had not enough to do — no children , though she had n't said anything about this recently — and his heart smote him because he had undertaken to make her happy , and had n't . |
| 5 | Thus the extreme subjectivism of , for example , the novels of Virginia Woolf , belongs within the same formation as the economic interventionism of Keynes , who wanted not only to preserve the economic system by rationalizing it but to do this so that , within that achieved stability , the real processes of civilized life could be extended , undisturbed . |
| 6 | How hopeless and ludicrous everything was : the seas of incomprehension , the misunderstandings that could never be cleared up because we seemed not only to speak different languages but to inhabit different countries . |
| 7 | This was to pay dividends , and we had not long to wait . |
| 8 | When , on 1 January 1864 , the tsar legislated for the creation of the new assemblies — " zemstva " ( or , if the plural is anglicized , " zemstvos " ) — they seemed not only to represent provincial society as a whole but also to possess considerable authority . |
| 9 | They offered not only to plant a tree in my name , if I applied for a policy , but also the choice of a free radio alarm clock or a telephone . |
| 10 | They had not long to wait to discover whether Edward was in earnest or not . |
| 11 | Johnson , who should have known better , believed Boswell right in assuming such folk unhappy , ‘ for that they had not enough to keep their minds in motion ’ . |
| 12 | Fortunately the Royal Hotel was on the front , and they had not far to go . |
| 13 | They wanted not merely to take anti-pollution and anti-nuclear measures , but also to change Germany back into a rural economy , yet they grew rapidly in appeal after 1981 and attracted the sympathy of leftists who were dissatisfied with the moderation of the SPD . |
| 14 | Her voice sounded clipped , rather staccato , and it seemed not properly to belong to her any more . |
| 15 | Yet as the war dragged on it served not only to increase the regime 's unpopularity but also to give new leverage to the forces of opposition . |
| 16 | The public inquiry into the expansion of the Windscale nuclear reprocessing factory gave the anti-nuclear movement the impetus it needed not only to challenge the official estimates of risks , but also to question repeatedly the idea that the simplistic estimation of the numerical size of a risk should govern its regulation . |
| 17 | He started not only to print his addresses or charges but to review books of general interest ; to consider a book on diplomacy and war , and not to lose a chance of holding up the character of Asquith to admiration , or to contrast the laziness and drift of Stanley Baldwin as prime minister with the crusading fervour of a Gladstone . |
| 18 | To hold the regime together , and maintain himself at its head , he manoeuvred not only to maximize his chances of material and territorial satisfaction , but also to avoid alienating from himself any of the factions within his regime , while , at the same time , bolstering his own hegemony by ensuring the persistence of competition between them . |
| 19 | This was the most encouragement the boy got there , and it proved not enough to pep up his dismal sales figures . |
| 20 | Why did Doctor Lanyon think that he had not long to live ? |
| 21 | He had not only to take Rome : he had also to retain it . |
| 22 | He had not only to acquire knowledge of the artificial-flower trade but to compete , while paying full male wages , against most manufacturers , who employed low-waged girls . |
| 23 | Anna was in danger of dying because he had not enough to offer her to replace what she would be losing . |
| 24 | He wrote not only to defend the faith against persecuting governors , sceptical philosophers , and combative rabbis , but also to uphold the authentic tradition against Simon Magus ' followers ( Acts 8 : 9 ) or the adherents of Marcion and the Gnosticizing Platonist Valentine . |
| 25 | Having seen all of this , Stoker , they say , told Irving he wished not only to administer Irving 's theatrical affairs , but to write for the great man . |
| 26 | It was something he wanted not only to preserve but somehow to revive . |
| 27 | For the first time in what seemed an age to him , he wanted not only to laugh but to guffaw , like he used to do when Harry or Martin came out with something funny . |