Example sentences of "[noun] not [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the years pass the disease takes a heavier and heavier toll not only physically but also emotionally as it progresses through the group . |
| 2 | He had a moped hidden in some bushes not far away and now he 's turned on to the track going up the mountain . |
| 3 | In some areas of the world , e.g. West Africa , it is helpful to file words not only alphabetically but also according to major word classes , because nouns and verbs have different phonological structures . |
| 4 | The green imperial pigeon , uniquely among birds , can unhitch its lower beak and expand its mouth not only vertically but horizontally and swallow a nutmeg that is slightly larger than its own head . |
| 5 | This again may appear to be perfectly obvious , but I recall a case not long ago where the agent was induced to halt action on a proposed petition , and it transpired only subsequently ( and after the legislation had been enacted ) that the client had given these instructions on a mere general assurance which was not in fact implemented . |
| 6 | ’ Changed a bit , ’ said Arthur , looking at a girl dancing in a mini-skirt not much deeper than a belt . |
| 7 | MUSIC : The Scouse pop scene produced a lot of bright new bands and artists , and this year readers nominated three names who have been flying the flag not only locally but nationally . |
| 8 | So there 's a there 's a good point I mean very often you 'll get this point in the origin not always though so you have to watch that . |
| 9 | Congress ( I ) leaders accused the government of vindictiveness and of seeking to install its own supporters as governors , and further maintained that the actions also went against the spirit of the Constitution and against the recommendations of the Sarkaria Committee which had suggested that governors should be persons not too closely or recently involved in party politics and that governors from one political party should not be imposed on a state governed by an opposing party . |
| 10 | By now they were almost halfway down , the drop not so far as it had been , but it was still a long way and Maggie almost crept to the slight shelter of the rocky bank . |
| 11 | And which of us has not broken the law of God not just once but thousands of times ? |
| 12 | Many after all had served in households not much better than their own , for servant-keeping reached well down the social scale . |
| 13 | He was silent then and I had the feeling he was thinking of all that Cook had done , first in Endeavour , then in Resolution and Discovery , ships not much longer than Isvik . |
| 14 | She never , she n never has And er well she fell down the road not long ago and she went into hospital . |
| 15 | Ill-prepared not only militarily but also politically , for on the eve of the actual declaration of war on Prussia , 18 July , he had to use all his personal influence to prevent a vote of no confidence in the Ministry being put forward in the Legislative Body , ‘ … an act which would be both highly unwise and unconstitutional in the present circumstances ’ . |
| 16 | 1934 is consequently a point of historical transition not only ideologically and culturally , but above all , politically and economically . |
| 17 | Notice a small , white , fluffy cloud not far away and become that cloud , gently moving across the sky . |
| 18 | Take the example of St-Germain-des-Prés on the west bank of the Seine at Paris : here the landlord , the monastic community , organised peasant transport services not only so as to ensure the abbey 's food supply but to permit the sale of surplus wine and corn . |
| 19 | Or , if he really wants to worry aloud , he recalls the time not long ago when he woke one morning to find a black man looming over him in his bedroom carrying most of the clothes from wardrobe in one hand and the family carving knife in the other . |
| 20 | The story of how the convalescent David Stirling got his proposal into the hands of General Auchinleck was told to the journalist Virginia Cowles in 1958 , and is based on Stirling 's memory of events not too long after they occurred . |