Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 Budding engineers are going to face a situation where what they achieve practically receives the inadequate reward of a terminal examination which fails to let them demonstrate not only the full extent of their knowledge but also understanding of the processes involved .
2 I 've not even the money to see you properly married , Emily , ’ he said softly .
3 A lifelong love of fashions means I have not only the nerve to try something original , but the experience to put my own version of style together .
4 Visual art has a rich and abundant language , and by learning to express and translate its varied vocabulary you gain not only the power to explore personal truths or create unique images , but you have the opportunity to show a rare insight into this diverse and extraordinary world .
5 When Flora Tristan , the French feminist and socialist , visited London in 1839 she noted not just the extent of prostitution but the complex ritualization of male debauchery .
6 You violated not only the lady but her home in which she was entitled to expect she would be safe .
7 She had not even the comfort of Hector 's presence , for her nervousness upset him and he had taken to roaming again , now that his leg was healed .
8 If she had not quite the fire and the golden glow of her ancestors , nobody remarked it .
9 She had not quite the disdain of him that she put into what she said ; and perhaps he knew it as well as she did .
10 This is a haven of verbal pleasure which the teacher evidently shares , as she relishes not only the sounds and meanings of the poems , but the feel of the words on her tongue and her palate .
11 ‘ And you missed not only the 8 P.M. train but the next one , too ? ’
12 By that time , Freud certainly had moved on a bit , from the earlier , perhaps rather narrow concentration on the repression and he was moving into the second er era of psycho psychoanalysis when there was an emphasis more on the total personality on the ego and its mechanisms of defence , to quote a title of a famous book by , and I think this is more the kind of thing that Freud is doing in this book , where you , you see not just the repressions in the unconscious , but the whole personality , and you understand it , in terms of its various defensive erm , structures , and the way which it carried out its repression .
13 By ‘ real labour costs ’ we mean not just the real wage , but the total cost of employing labour , including the employers ' National Insurance contributions , deflated by an appropriate price index , and with an allowance being made for changes in labour productivity .
14 ‘ Oh that we regarded not only the God who governs the stars , but the God of minute providences — the Overruler of moments !
15 We indicate not only the location and amenities , but also the number of bedrooms in the hotel , and whether it has a lift .
16 Can we afford not only the debate today but can we afford it in another eighteen months ?
17 We had not only the glories of the mist-workings on the sides of Bens Each and Leagach on our right ; we had Ben Lair , which was now and again seen with the deep cloud-shapes falling over his rocky summit and his tree-lined base .
18 Imagine what it might be like if , as humans , we had not only the senses of other creatures but the ability to understand these communications as they do .
19 With essential oils we have not only the material substance of the oil with its therapeutic properties , we also have the ethereal aroma , which , according to psychic healers , influences not only the emotions , but also the spiritual aspect .
20 By casting our gaze around the diocese , we see not only the great efforts of the past , but the reality of the present which speaks to us not only of the love and faith of one good man , but of God 's unchanging love and compassion towards us all .
21 In particular , do they affect not only the presentation but the substance of government decisions ?
22 They influence not only the way the audience receives cultural texts , but also what gets exhibited in museums , the paintings we see in books and magazines and on television , and what gets taught in the art schools .
23 The people who have raised the petition , in particular the Scunthorpe pensioners rights campaign , point out that they seek not only the restoration of the link that was broken in 1979 , but also parity with pensions in Europe .
24 They cover not only the lifting of loads but also lowering , pushing , pulling , carrying or moving them , whether by hand or other bodily force .
25 They show not only the ‘ stages ’ through which a user may pass , but also the range of strategies open to the user at any given time , and they illustrate the social processes that determined the trajectory of the pattern of heroin use in each case .
26 By the closing weeks of 1987 the population of the occupied territories had concluded that they faced not only the prevarication of Israel and Jordan but also the acquiescence of the other Arab states .
27 In trying to bring cattle thieves to justice they faced not only the usual difficulties but a certain amount of popular tolerance of the crime .
28 Zakrevskii 's political opinions were so far to the right that he thought the Moscow Slavophiles were dangerous subversives ; his antipathy to modernization led him to deplore not only the construction of new factories in Moscow but also the expansion of old ones .
29 They discovered not only the Poulett mansion but a very fine view , perhaps from the Warren House above the park , and were , Dorothy wrote to a friend , ‘ amply repaid ’ for their trouble .
30 The basic and sorry fact about the grants with which Frohnmayer had so much difficulty was that they expressed not only the unity of American life , but the fissures within it .
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