Example sentences of "[adj] not [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's exploit this , let let's use this not just for the existing members , let's use this as a recruitment tool . |
| 2 | We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ? |
| 3 | One sees this not only on the ground , travelling through these parts , but it is also brought out clearly on the Ordnance map . |
| 4 | However , management is constrained in this not only by the technical capabilities , but also by the requirement to break even on the basis of rate of return above the norm . |
| 5 | It struck me as a trivial , but irritating error ; the dust-pan would have been conspicuous not only from the five ground-floor doorways opening on to the hall , but also from the staircase and the first-floor balconies . |
| 6 | The quality of inspection varied enormously and was dependent not just on the inspectors ' powers of observation but also on their view of how young refugees should be treated . |
| 7 | Therefore , the change in the dividend was dependent not solely on the target layout ratio but also on some adjustment factor . |
| 8 | The extent to which new finds will eventually ease Canada 's problem will of course be dependent not only on the nature of the finds but on the level of demand . |
| 9 | Generally , the idea 's progress through the process is dependent not only on the quality of the idea and its enhancement , but also upon the amount of drive the originator exerts . |
| 10 | Christians were distressed because the age of revelation was over ( and they were acutely conscious of this with the passing of the apostolic generation , as is made clear not only by the speedy recognition in the second century that their writings were determinative for the Christian faith , but also by the deep sense of nostalgia to be found in the earliest of the sub-apostolic writers like Polycarp and Ignatius ) . |
| 11 | The present bridge was built to an adventurous design wherein the cast iron sections forming the arches were pin-jointed not only at the ends but also in the centre of the span . |
| 12 | Like Eliot , More had been interested not only in the classics and Christianity , but also in the East . |
| 13 | Erm to curtail it 's competitive event er would be an absolute disaster shows that erm in simply because it is popular not just within the airlines but also the business er customers |
| 14 | Hand-painted in ten different colourways to match the china , the tiles are proving popular not only for the floor and fireplace surrounds , but for brightening up the area around kitchen Agas . |
| 15 | In 1921 he scored 212 not out for the Ridley College XI against Hamilton CC to establish a schoolboy batting record for Canadian cricket which stands to this day . |
| 16 | But its failure was due not primarily to the way it performed its functions , but to the nature of those functions . |
| 17 | That , however , was due not just to the complexity of turning the Political Community treaty into reality , but to the problems that the Six were facing in getting the EDC off the ground . |
| 18 | To have won the best single play award was a major coup , due not just to the craft of the makers but at least partly to the strength of the story of the Trawsfynydd shepherd bard who became a reluctant soldier and died in battle before knowing he had achieved his life 's ambition of winning the National Eisteddfod chair at the Birkenhead festival in 1917 . |
| 19 | The fact that Northern Ireland has weathered the recession better than any other region in the United Kingdom is due , to an extent , to the Government 's policies ; but it is due not least to the resourcefulness , intelligence and dedication of business people in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | That Ronchey 's move has been made now is due not only to the changed political climate , but also to the fact that the Minister is not a career politician like his recent , ineffective predecessors , but an independent , educated man ( he was a distinguished political journalist before being invited to join the government ) , who instead of getting tied up in his Ministry 's bureaucratic shibboleths , has collected an enlightened group of advisors around him , including the independent scholar Federico Zeri , who enjoys star status in Italy , and Mirella Baracco , the energetic founder of the private ginger group , Napoli 99 , which is managing to get long-closed monuments and churches in that city open to the public . |
| 21 | His success was due not only to the quality of his pens , backed by a five-year warranty , but also to his extensive advertising and publicity efforts . |
| 22 | This was much in vogue in the 1960s , due not only to the fashionable ideas of Marshall McLuhan , but the more serious earlier work by Wiener ( 1948 ) and Shannon and Weaver ( 1949 ) , but as time has passed doubts have grown not so much about its existence , but rather whether it does not constitute two distinct fields of machine and human communication , for which information theory can not provide a unifying paradigm . |
| 23 | On a basically cylindrical figure like the hawk-priestess 's the swelling forms are modelled with far greater strength and subtlety , due not only to the slightly later date and much larger scale : this is the work of a great sculptor . |
| 24 | For the present situation is due not only to the Magoo-like myopia of Washington and its incompetence in the affairs of any part of the globe not actually State-side , startling though these are . |
| 25 | The popularity of Wade 's sculpture was probably due not only to the fact that it was always comprehensible but that it was both ennobling and restrained in equal measure . |
| 26 | It is hoped that this project will be innovative not only in the material resented and analysed , but as a contribution to new modes of scholarly publication . |
| 27 | One of the difficulties , I would imagine , is associated not just with the level of cutbacks , but also the scale of time in which they 're have to be implemented . |
| 28 | At the time of the Restoration itself Anglican-Royalist sentiment was strong not only amongst the gentry but also amongst the population at large , whilst there was a marked reaction against the Whigs and in favour of the Tories following the defeat of the Parliamentary Exclusion movement . |
| 29 | The problem is that dependent development seems to be possible not only in the Third World but also in underprivileged areas within the hegemonic countries of the First World . |
| 30 | Even the clocks are wacky not only up the wall but completely off the wall ! |