Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few minutes I not only felt but heard the tissue in the sinuses beginning to break up , and by the time he had finished both were completely clear . |
| 2 | All I would say to you is that the very small primary schools I not only have to doubt the financial viability , but I personally sometimes would doubt that the National Curriculum can be delivered to a school where you 've got an age range between five and eleven and you 've only got thirty or forty children , and that is a personal point of view , which I have , erm having seen many of our schools , and I believe that the problems that some of our large urban schools have , with thirty to a class packed in , is also something we should address and give careful thought to when we are resourcing education . |
| 3 | This is when those photographs are taken and published with their phoney captions which not unnaturally wring the hearts of the uninitiated . |
| 4 | With this second novel , Amy Tan has again proved herself to be a first class writer , one who can write books which not only have enormous popular appeal , but also teach us something new about the human condition . |
| 5 | Two days after the debate , on 6th August , 1859 , a leader appeared in The Times which not only questioned Scott 's suitability for the appointment , but also the new attitude of the professional architect towards his client . |
| 6 | Indeed , there are many studies of primitive communities which not only claim that this possibility is realized but depict in detail the life of a society where the only means of social control is that general attitude of the group towards its own standard modes of behaviour in terms of which we have characterized rules of obligation … |
| 7 | Skiers need sunglasses which not only look good but which actually work . |
| 8 | The reality was that these otherwise respectable women consented to spend a night in the same room as the supposedly erring husband , but in circumstances which not only discouraged passion but positively precluded it . |
| 9 | A distinguishing feature of Company Programmes is the team of client directors who not only have a wide experience in industry but represent the main functions of the business . |
| 10 | In order to reconstitute purposeful and meaningful administrative acts we not only need to save the different communicative acts but also to be able to reconstitute their inter-relationships in real time . |
| 11 | Moral association is a human relationship based on ‘ the mutual recognition of certain conditions which not only specify right and wrong in conduct , but are prescriptions of obligations ’ . |
| 12 | certain shoe companies , namely Karhu and New Balance , offer a more precise assessment with fitting machines which not only measures your feet but also indicate foot type . |
| 13 | Some of the banks have now installed machines which not only dispense cash but also accept payments . |
| 14 | But for almost two million pounds she not only got up , but got to grips with the crumbling guttering on a Paris rooftop . |
| 15 | As leader of the militant Ulster Unionists he not only voiced the six counties ' wish to remain under the King and the Parliament at Westminster , but organised a large force of Ulster Volunteers , for whom arms were landed in 1913 . |
| 16 | I hope they will allow access to hopes and expectations that partnerships can achieve profoundly important objectives which not only secure economic needs , but also transform how education is delivered , governed and perceived . |
| 17 | Railway and port facilities will be needed and higher levels of mine mechanization if coal production is to achieve levels which not only supply 70% of energy demand but afford an opportunity for exports . |
| 18 | Hazel is one of those unfortunate patients who not only have food intolerance , but also seem to be sensitive to various everyday chemicals as well . |
| 19 | Protests are uncommon here since it is in each sailor 's own interest to avoid high speed collisions which not only ruin your chances but can be quite dangerous . |
| 20 | It is best to hide scale patterns by introducing leaps which not only hide this weakness in the system , but also allow stronger , more memorable phrase contours . |
| 21 | Right , then I 'll just put it down here Nine teas Your not actually shooting till Tuesday are you ? |
| 22 | These are awarded each year to those parks which not only provide facilities to a high standard but also have first class caravan holiday homes for hire . |
| 23 | This system was to be the predecessor of the various experiments under the Tudors to exercise special control in the North , measures which not only reflect the problems of governing a region remote from the centre of public power but also tell us something about the tensions between a local aristocracy and the Crown . |
| 24 | Some languages are peculiar to one region , yet intimately related to others beyond — like the 500 or so Austronesian tongues which not only link speakers in Vietnam and Cambodia with those in Fiji , Malaysia , the Philippines , Sulawesi and Borneo , but also reach out to the inland mountains of Taiwan , the North Island of New Zealand , and to the speakers of Dobu in the d'Entrecasteaux islands and of Trukese on Truk . |
| 25 | Aristos of Salamis in Cyprus , who probably lived in the middle of the third century B.C. , is said by Arrian ( 7.15.5 ) to have been one of the two historians who not only spoke of an embassy of the Romans to Alexander the Great , but made Alexander prophesy the future greatness of Rome , so impressed was he by the envoys . |
| 26 | In the by-elections , I rapidly became disillusioned by the men who not only ended up taking credit for the Group 's existence but who also displayed a total lack of understanding about issues affecting Asian women in Britain . |
| 27 | Christabel Pankhurst reasoned that the state was composed of men who not only denied women the vote but also tacitly condoned male immorality and sexual violence . |
| 28 | However , even if the L.G.U. was left wondering if it should n't have kept the public better informed , it must have been greatly heartened by the number of spectators who not only came to this out-of-the-way championship but made it abundantly clear that they were greatly taken with the high standard of play . |
| 29 | This meant that new buildings would often incorporate , for example , safety-oriented features such as computer-controlled fire alarm and sprinkler systems which not only reduced the risk of fire but , when fire did break out , ensured it was containable until the emergency services arrived . |
| 30 | It was manned by zombies who not only clocked in and out of work , but for lunch also . |