Example sentences of "[noun] not [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Mr Hart himself asked in a letter to The Times : ‘ In the face of so pellucid a Parliamentary intention , how was it that the Revenue not only thought it worth while to try it on , but actually found two courts to agree with it ? ’ |
| 2 | I think the equipment gets in the way of creativity — photography is an art not a craft , you should MAKE pictures not just take them . ’ |
| 3 | MUFC may find that scoring against teams Id not enough to make them roll over and give up anymore . |
| 4 | ‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’ |
| 5 | In his work in the western part of the United States not only did he describe physical erosive processes but was also able to derive a system of laws governing progress from initial to adjusted forms ( Chorley , Dunn and Beckinsale , 1964 ) and in his Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains ( 1877 ) he provided the first major treatment by a geologist of the mechanics of fluvial processes . |
| 6 | Illustrious educational institutions not merely offered them places , but also attempted to entice them . |
| 7 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 8 | Sole is one of those rare front-row forwards whose remarkable range of skills not only makes him a complete footballer but also brings fresh possibilities to the way the game can be played at the highest level . |
| 9 | Such programmes not only allow us to expand our market share in today 's tough world , but they also give us the opportunity of being involved in the very earliest stages of our customer 's product development process , offering us exciting scope for new business . |
| 10 | There is , for most of the century , no simple suggestion of a dominant class resisting a popular culture and attempting to supplant it with a preferred alternative , but rather a willingness not only to tolerate it but to accept a functional involvement . |
| 11 | Nigel BLOOM was in excellent form again on Saturday , and his treble at the Essex fixture at High Easter not surprisingly earned him the very handsome trophy presented by ‘ Pleasure Prints ’ to the meeting 's most outstanding rider . |
| 12 | Elena 's promotion over the heads of more senior comrades with much greater political or administrative experience not only humiliated them , it also antagonized their wives . |
| 13 | The lights on your vehicle not only help you see , but let other drivers see you , both at night and in poor visibility during the day . |
| 14 | A Print Preview window not only lets you preview your work before you print , but add headers and footers , adjust margins , and choose to print cell numbers , grid lines or formulae . |
| 15 | The bracelet not only made them fly , but had taken them to the moon . |
| 16 | Adding some formatting to the spreadsheet not only makes it look better but makes it less likely that you will enter the wrong data for the percentage . |
| 17 | We will achieve this be exceeding our customers ’ expectations not just leaving them ‘ satisfied ’ . |
| 18 | It was rumoured that Alam wanted Khomeini executed in 1963 but other religious leaders prevailed upon the Shah not even to put him on trial . |
| 19 | He said , ‘ You understand that in my capacity as stage manager it 's my job not only to train you in your chosen career but to guide you in other respects . ’ |
| 20 | Reducing the volume of waste not only makes it more manageable and reduces the further risk of contravening the hygiene regulations , but since most local authorities or waste contractors charge for removal based on the volume , you will also make considerable savings on removal charges . |
| 21 | We were working , admittedly , on the road , but for two years not once did she … well that was it . |
| 22 | The period of separation from her husband not only gives her an opportunity for physical recuperation , but also gives the couple a chance to relate to each other in a non-physical way . |
| 23 | I walked inside and it was just like my granny 's sitting room Not only did it sell teddy boy clothes but there was also a fifties radiogram and fifties wallpaper . |
| 24 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 25 | As a member of his staff not unreasonably put it : Ford 's own reflections several years after he left the White House are also pertinent to an understanding of the difficulties he faced whilst in office . |
| 26 | Minto not only provided him with plenty of Screwtape- style domestic situations . |
| 27 | The survey vessel 's signal not only identified her , it also disarmed the platform-mounted weapons which otherwise would have reduced her to vapour . |
| 28 | However , he records with thankfulness that it ‘ pleased God not only to keep me from them ’ , but also to give him a friend whose example of zeal and practical godliness was of great spiritual help to him . |
| 29 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 30 | It means some bastard not only laid me out cold , and stuck me face-down in the Comer , but even rammed me well down into the mud with a foot in the small of my back to make dead sure of me , before he lit out and left me there to drown . ’ |