Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very principle of social insurance lies not merely threatened but broken by 12 years of abuse by the Government . |
| 2 | So far the Community has not even conceded that these projects are undermined by its own beef-dumping policy . |
| 3 | He has not even learned that Britain is suffering from a recession bordering on a slump . |
| 4 | In this picture , Joni has not just imitated or interpreted a style , but has been able to create an object with all the patina , or aura , of an ancient work of art . |
| 5 | Now according to Hahnemann being better is n't a sign to stop the medicine , his argument is that the symptoms may be gone but the patient has not yet demonstrated that the predisposition has been removed . |
| 6 | Erm , one other thing that I want to make about erm , the victims , erm , I am very much er , involved with erm , victim support Wiltshire , and one of the problems with victim support Wiltshire is their work is increasing all the time because the crime rate goes up , and every time there is more crime there is more victims , but the , the Government has not yet said that they will put the money up that they erm , that they er , the grant up that they give to the victim support . |
| 7 | You will be offered alternative travel routing or timings or alternative hotel and you have the option ( a ) to proceed with these revised arrangements or ( b ) cancel the holiday and receive a full refund if your holiday has not yet begun and in either event receive compensation as above . |
| 8 | Hilary , who 's been producing religious programmes for BBC radio , has not yet decided whether she 'll go back to work after having the baby . |
| 9 | Oxfam is regularly approached with inventions and has not yet decided whether it will be able to do something with the ’ friendly fuel ’ . |
| 10 | Langbaurgh Council has not yet decided whether to appeal against being capped at £16.5m £2m below budget . |
| 11 | The Nuffield modern languages survey has not yet reported and the only available account is an interim report from 1985 . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State 's own consultant , Mr. Roy Stoner , the head of the Institute of Irrigation Studies at Southampton university , has not yet reported and we do not know what he will say . |
| 13 | But that time has not yet come and Orlan found that most of the surgeons she approached did not want to get involved with her ideas . |
| 14 | Although this programme has not yet started if you feel you have an initiative which could quality contact your representative and have a chat . |
| 15 | Such a road would be a scenic delight and give an alternative road to the Isles but it has not yet happened and , it is to be hoped , never will . |
| 16 | When possible check that foliage or flower stems are firm and green ( eg chrysanthemums ) , that pollen has not yet shed and there are plenty of buds ( eg lilies ) and that the colours are still sharp . |
| 17 | Under s2(5) , it may be that a defendant has " no reasonable cause to suspect " the obscenity of a book which he has not personally examined because books with similar or identical titles or themes have been acquitted , to his knowledge , in previous proceedings . |
| 18 | Local authority demand has not only fallen but changed in emphasis , with the consequence that a much higher proportion of the children today placed in these homes have behavioural , emotional , physical and other difficulties . |
| 19 | Dismissed as a novelty ever since it first began , rap has not only survived but has provided us with endless pleasures and variations . |
| 20 | Throughout , the kingdom of God has not only survived but flourished . |
| 21 | ‘ But it has not only suffered when he is playing — his whole confidence in life has been affected . |
| 22 | Since I repotted it this spring into a generous-sized pot , it has not only burgeoned but I 've also found it much easier to keep the compost just nicely moist . |
| 23 | It has not sufficiently emphasised that the Church itself is in the process of becoming and through its disobedience can present a distorted or even completely erroneous picture of the Christian life . |
| 24 | However , administrative separation from South Africa has not necessarily meant that homeland education departments are entirely autonomous . |
| 25 | The structure of OS/400 and the hardware are being remodelled not only to look and behave more like Unix , but actually be more like Unix ; with commitment to support the four basic level Posix standards , 1003.1 to 1003.4 , IBM says Posix will be central to the re-design of OS/400 , built into the licensed internal code beneath the machine interface level . |
| 26 | This new radar is designed not only to detect and track aircraft and sea-skimming missiles , but it also — ’ |
| 27 | Whether it is just looked at or heard , acted out or painted , a symbol arouses not only thought but delight , fear , awe , horror and the rest |
| 28 | And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places . |
| 29 | I mean not just trying but if you if you get chosen to play the violin it means practising and practising and staying with it so that you become a good violin player . |
| 30 | Of particular importance is the need for comprehensive assessment to embody meaningful mechanisms for user and carer participation and empowerment ; to acknowledge not only need and risk but strengths and resources ; to regard the older person as the centre of a network of personal , familial , and social factors which together determine her or his quality of life and level of risk . |