Example sentences of "[adj] not [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Therefore , the change in the dividend was dependent not solely on the target layout ratio but also on some adjustment factor . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Like Eliot , More had been interested not only in the classics and Christianity , but also in the East . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But its failure was due not primarily to the way it performed its functions , but to the nature of those functions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Even the clocks are wacky not only up the wall but completely off the wall ! |
| 26 | Many of the Sparrow books are outstanding not just for the inscriptions inside them , but for the condition they 're in . |
| 27 | It is highly technical not just in the sense that it involves computer technology but also because it is totally based in the area of printing . |
| 28 | Abolitionists were alert not only to the particular issue of the slave trade but to the larger need to safeguard their deployment of scripture as a powerful instrument of insight into right and wrong . |
| 29 | This significance is visible not only at the ideological and cultural level , but also at the economic and political level . |
| 30 | These words , which reflect what was said by Sir George Jessel M.R. in 1879 , seem to be wholly consistent not just with the wording of section 236 but also with the purposes of the administration as set out in section 8(3) of the Act of 1986 and in particular : |