Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |
| 2 | That means helping them not only to make any additional or different arrangements to what is ‘ normally available for all ’ to meet the needs of particular children , but also to review and develop the general curriculum , so that ‘ what is normally available for all ’ can itself be gradually transformed to provide better learning opportunities for all children in the future . |
| 3 | Although he seemed to be oblivious of what had happened , because he was concentrating on some letter or other , Eliot looked up resignedly and with a smile of one all too accustomed to the lack of business acumen in other people ; but I could see that he was also relieved to find me not too cast down . |
| 4 | To this end , we urge you not only to use the Line yourself for shopping , sightseeing etc. , but also to encourage your friends , acquaintances , neighbours and relatives , who may not even know of the existence of the Line , to use it . |
| 5 | Remember , we want you not only to lose weight but to feel really healthy with your body in good nutritional balance . |
| 6 | If , for instance , if extremely problematic strapping , splints or plaster of paris treatments are used and treatment should be started as soon as possible after birth , so the sooner you notice these things the better You 've all had your hospital experience , has anybody not actually seen a child with erm club foot ? |
| 7 | I urge him not merely to consider the matter but , because of the strength of feeling shown here , to take action as soon as possible , so that our hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester , West and his family will not have suffered in vain . |
| 8 | Has it not possibly occurred to Mr Marshall that , without the audit , one could reduce one 's prices significantly and , if one is efficient , make rather more profit , providing clients with a service that they in fact desire ? |
| 9 | Thirdly , it does not inspire confidence in her work to find it not simply going beyond the independent evidence we have , but often going against it . |
| 10 | I found myself not only enjoying the birds , but the flowers as well . |
| 11 | The Back to the Future ride has us not simply gawping at Michael J Fox traversing time in a souped-up De Lorean but ( ostensibly ) taking his place . |
| 12 | The white boys impute an imaginary position of advantage to blacks , which allows them not only to deny the actual conditions of black oppression , but to claim them as their own , in order to justify exclusionary practices which keep blacks ‘ one down ’ and themselves ‘ one up ’ . |
| 13 | This might well have saved them not just travelling time , but also energy . |
| 14 | Let them not therefore bewail the delay of the Parousia . |
| 15 | He is also writing to John McGregor , the Education Secretary , urging him not only to abandon the idea of additional CTCs but to hand over those in the pipeline to local authorities . |
| 16 | Hadst thou not rather stay with me than go to my sister ? |
| 17 | Let us not constantly try to talk down the coal industry . |
| 18 | There was one member whose sight was so bad that when she read she not only had to prop a second pair of spectacles on top of the pair already resting on her nose , but also had to stand under the standard lamp almost pressed against the light bulb . |
| 19 | One of the strong impressions that I took away from the secondment was the ability of C&P managers at all levels to use various diagrammatic models to help them not only explain the workings of the company , but to help them analyse problems and synthesize solutions . |
| 20 | Motability has arranged special schemes with motor manufacturers , wheelchair manufacturers , insurance brokers , and other so that today a variety of schemes can be offered which not only help disabled people become mobile but also give them a chance to be truly independent . |
| 21 | I 'd promised myself not even to think about Julie Burchill again , let alone mention her ( yeah , right on , Camille , we 're rootin' for ya ) , but I must say that I agree with her that the Best of Young British list would have improved by the addition of an American and someone who 'd written a non-fiction book about football . |
| 22 | First , the notion of ‘ usability ’ leads us not only to focus on the eventual users of the information for whom , presumably , companies are investing significant amounts of money on more or less elaborate information-processing systems and structures . |
| 23 | The sonic pulse systems emitted by toothed whales are directional and most species seem to use them not only to detect food but also to make fine distinctions on the basis of the echoes . |
| 24 | This paraphrase of Paul 's words in Ephesians 4:26 guaranteed they not only resolved conflicts but also gave and received forgiveness . |
| 25 | and actually she 's excellent and I like her not like working for a female boss good people er |
| 26 | The truth of the matter is that we have seen a substantial reduction in direct tax rates , a substantial improvement in standards of living and , as a result of the reduction in tax rates , an improvement in the tax base , which has enabled us not only to achieve increased public spending on a large scale in our key priority areas , especially health , but to achieve a reduction in direct income tax and , overall , considerably to improve our public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 27 | Lady Morton had no doubt enjoined them not only to look after his every need , but also to report back to her . |
| 28 | To a degree unknown in any other use of language he finds himself not only attending to what is said but simultaneously hearing the words as textures of vowels and consonants , noting rhythm , rhyme , assonance ; meanings refuse to be tied down , disclose nuances and associations of which he has never been conscious ; sights and sounds which he has never heeded become sensuously precise and vivid in imagination ; emotion assumes a peculiar lucidity , undisguised by what he habitually feels or has been taught that he ought to feel ; truths about life and death , which he follows social convention in systematically evading , stand out as simple and unchallengeable . |
| 29 | Additional problems are created by the heaviness of the monsoon rains which not only wash the sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen out of the air and over the marble but further erode any weaknesses in the stone . |
| 30 | Now many commentators have found it not entirely clear what Locke has in mind and I 'm puzzled by erm the confusion into which they seem to have fallen . |