Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [not/n't] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I would say that the North Yorkshire er figure in summary , goes in the right direction but not far enough . |
| 2 | If it was being pointed out to her that she had been born to a life of political responsibility and not simply pleasure by one member of the powerful and able house of Guise in France , the message was being reinforced from Scotland by another : her mother , Mary of Guise . |
| 3 | I like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian , we 've been hearing and seeing and been challenged and accepting Christ as our saviour and over the week in Harlow a number made that response and not only in Harlow and in Earls Court but right across the country and into Europe and into Africa as well , through the , through the life link , men and women who have been challenged into accepting Jesus Christ as their saviour and I 'd like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian now obviously as we perhaps know er , and , and , and God work clearly shows to us that it is not in being religion , somebody well said that religion is man 's attempt to find God but the gospel is God 's method of seeking out and finding men and so just as the same as you 've seen that bridge of life illustration and we try with our planks to get across to God we ca n't make it , |
| 4 | Note it is important in that case that not only the settlor but the spouse of the settlor was not domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time of the last to die otherwise the property would not be in an excluded property settlement — see s80(1) which refers to the last of the spouse or the settlor to cease to be beneficially entitled to an interest in possession . |
| 5 | ‘ You ca n't have spent the day with some total stranger and not even found out what she was called . ’ |
| 6 | Some people may find it too exciting ; certainly , there is something to be said for being on the side of the road away from the steep drops into the valley , which means driving eastwards by this route and not westwards , or into Bigorre not out of it . |
| 7 | Owls ' eyesight is good in dim light but not so good in total darkness ; it is their acute hearing and the accuracy with which they can pinpoint sounds that make them such successful hunters . |
| 8 | Some catchy and not so catchy tunes help spread the green message . |
| 9 | So it is used here in the wider sense defined by the World Health Organization as a ‘ complete physical , mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity ’ . |
| 10 | The fact , therefore , that much of art education is concerned with a direct pupil/teacher interaction , in which informal discussions about problems , and their possible resolution , establishes a crucial but essentially informal kind of diagnostic assessment , means that many art teachers view any externally imposed structure upon this process as not only irrelevant , but potentially damaging to that very quality of personal involvement and development that characterizes good work . |
| 11 | Green candidate , Bill Hughes sees investment in more public transport as not only the key to an improved environment , but also to an improved economy . |
| 12 | In the past days people had begun cautiously to return to the moor , but not this evening and not here . |
| 13 | DEC ( Digital ) will only work with educational institutions if the project is of advantage to the broader community and not just for the benefit of the school or college . |
| 14 | In our recent study of papers in the mid-1980s we broadened the focus and examined not only rape but also other forms of sexual assault and not only reporting of trials but also other stages , including the search and post-conviction . |
| 15 | It is true that most prisoners miss sexual contact but not just to get relief . |
| 16 | The regions will then have some control and not only over such things as regional grants . |
| 17 | And erm I think Road is the key element of this traffic because not only is it a question of the estate but it 's the main through road from the up to Gatwick Airport and this is why er I understand that the calming proposal in road has yet to receive the M O T authority to use it because scheme . |
| 18 | Your notes should be the product of historical thought and not simply a prelude to it . |
| 19 | She had thrown on an old dress and not much else , and she played with the frying-pan as if it were Pancake Day . |
| 20 | Joan also hesitated to go to the Home Office as her father was a senior civil servant in line for further promotion and not too far from retirement . |
| 21 | If they 've had it for more than a month , encourage them to get out for some fresh air but not too much vigorous exercise . |
| 22 | Lots of fresh air and not much else . |
| 23 | A light touch and not even a mouse could have scuttled through that ballroom without setting off the alarm all over the house — and the city . |
| 24 | Reporters spent the day scurrying around in far from dignified fashion but not even the foreign television networks , with the vast logistical operations they run , were able to establish any sightings or obtain any hard information . |
| 25 | NO DOUBT there is a problem with drug abuse in this city and not only on council estates . |
| 26 | Not to me but , except maybe this this thing but not so material . |
| 27 | This last point raised the interesting possibility that not only is the brain the seat of the mind but also , different parts of the brain might be involved in different aspects of mind . |
| 28 | This request for information provides a direction for the conversational fragment , so that we are considering speech with some purpose and not just social chat used to pass the time . |
| 29 | Eliot that ‘ to divert interest from the poet to the poetry is a laudable aim ’ ( 1972 : 22 ) , but that agreement is expressed in their work as a theoretical system and not just as an intellectual preference . |
| 30 | And then but also with the poor peasants I mean you , you 've given them a , enough land so that they , they still ca n't meet subsistence , given them some land but not enough , but you know because they 're resourceful and they 've got other things that they , they do n't need to have enough land to give subsistence , they 'd rather go and do something else and make it up . |