Example sentences of "[noun] [not/n't] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ New thinking not only in design and manufacturing but in industrial co-operation too ’ |
| 2 | I hoped that the NFC would be a pioneer not only in privatization but also in improving employee relations . |
| 3 | The tenth anniversary of the civil rights movement was celebrated on 1 January 1979 amidst a growing alienation of the minority Catholic population , a rising toll not only of violence but also of poverty and unemployment in the six counties , and an increasingly unbridgeable gulf within the majority Protestant ranks , with the Official Unionists and the so-called Democratic Unionists under the Revd Ian Paisley vying with one another in intransigence and extremism . |
| 4 | Train your eyes not merely to look but also to see . |
| 5 | Other parties not completely in agreement with the proposals include the Highland Regional Council , which would lose some control in the designated areas , and the Scottish National Party , which feels that parks would not necessarily be in the interests of either the nation or the environment . |
| 6 | Conversation thus tended to be laconic and allusive and it sometimes scarcely seemed to possess a thread of connection between one remark and the next : this was however an illusion , seductive enough to a stranger ignorant of background , all the more so to a stranger not fully in command of the language . |
| 7 | During her pregnancy , Priss had read a great deal about past mistakes in child rearing ; according to the literature , they were the result not only of ignorance , but of sheer selfishness : a nurse or a mother who gave a crying child paregoric usually did it for her own peace of mind , not wanting to be bothered . |
| 8 | This time I decided to have my coffee in a little cafe not far from SIS . |
| 9 | The problem seems to be that it is fundamentally about attitudes to work and such attitudes are subject to an inextricable and non-monotonic range of influences not only from work itself , with all the pressures of technological change , but also from prevailing economic , social and cultural changes in the community generally . |
| 10 | Bryan Gould , who resigned from the shadow cabinet over Maastricht in the autumn , said : ’ If we were to abandon that position now it would be a remarkable break not only with tradition but certainly with principle . ’ |
| 11 | so many things to remember in all subjects not just in maths |
| 12 | It has a direct effect not only on investment decisions , but also on the market for corporate control and the market for managers . |
| 13 | This work has shed much new light not only on chronology , and therefore on the development of Bach 's style , but also on performance practice and what is loosely termed reception history . |
| 14 | As a common carrier , the NVOCC enters into contracts of affreightment with his shipper , issues his own bill of lading , and assumes full responsibility for the carriage not merely from port of shipment to port of discharge , but from the point of origin to point of destination . |
| 15 | Former farm workers have felt the need to move out to the towns and cities in search not only of employment , but of higher pay , better working conditions , and increased opportunities for personal advancement ; and farmers have felt the need to shed labour as an accompaniment to increasing productivity . |
| 16 | had committed against the barge hirers the tort of procuring breaches of their contract with their men — the plaintiffs would have had a cause of action not only in respect of breaches of hiring contracts but also in respect of new business they were unable to undertake . |
| 17 | This makes it a most useful instrument not only for solo pieces but also for the support of voices . |
| 18 | Before very long , however , it was to be made abundantly clear to her that legal equality was not enough ; the ability to exert force was the key not merely to ascendancy , but also to genuine equality . |
| 19 | 1974 was the time of a change in direction not only in career but also in fossil hunting . |
| 20 | The Ulstermen had accepted this contract not just for money but for more cannabis , said Mr Langdale . |
| 21 | The authorities were taking a proactive role , acting as the mainspring of change not only in fundholding but in other areas such as consumer surveys and information systems . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're back , ’ she realised superfluously , her defences not yet in place because his presence was so unexpected . |
| 23 | That is a measure not merely of misfortune and waste , but of positive neglect ; and nothing so symbolises the Tories ' failure as their abandonment of any pretence to commitment towards the unemployed . |
| 24 | Collectors can hardly have failed to notice the appearances back in March not only of Volume 1 of our survey of recommended mid- and budget priced recordings , but also a more selective ‘ Top 100 ’ in two other publications . |
| 25 | Smart associates the harp not only with praise , but also with creativity , as two of the verses in Jubilate Agno show : and : |
| 26 | Educated in France , she was , as Napoleon III said , ‘ French at heart not only by upbringing but by the memory of the blood which her father shed in the service of the Empire ’ . |
| 27 | On the contrary , the most telling message which these interviews have to convey is the great variety not only in circumstance , but also in responses to later life of the older generation in the earlier part of this century . |
| 28 | The second half of the century was a period of intolerance , of deepening division not only between Catholic and Protestant — though a Catholic emperor , Maximilian II , could still favour Lutherans and as late as 1583 a Catholic Archbishop of Cologne could contemplate marriage to a nun — but between Lutheran and Calvinist and even within the various religious camps . |
| 29 | As this book has insisted over and over again , sport is to do with attitudes and values not just with exercise . |
| 30 | ‘ Social responsibility for the librarian , then , means responsibility not simply to society as it is , but to the society of the future and the past . |