Example sentences of "[pers pn] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond this , current sensations converge with knowledge and memory and desire to make sense of the experience of the present : I not only experience this object but I recognize it — as something of a certain kind ; as yours , as mine , as something I have seen before ; and it means something to me in terms of my appetites and needs and ambitions . |
| 2 | Governing bodies must develop strategies for cooperation across LEAs which enable them not only to share some resources , but also to apply greater pressure on decisions about the size of the education budget . |
| 3 | That means helping them not only to make any additional or different arrangements to what is ‘ normally available for all ’ to meet the needs of particular children , but also to review and develop the general curriculum , so that ‘ what is normally available for all ’ can itself be gradually transformed to provide better learning opportunities for all children in the future . |
| 4 | she not long had that bad car accident |
| 5 | also we ought to be treating it , are you not actually having any active treatment at the moment are you ? |
| 6 | In pursuance of this nonsense , you not only hear those few callers who succeed in getting through , you 're also subjected to a cheery stream-of-consciousness summary of the grievances expressed by all the rest . |
| 7 | Erm , can we not just toss some thoughts |
| 8 | Why then can we not simply say that topless ( a ) and topless ( b ) are different ( although perhaps related ) lexemes ? |
| 9 | When his characters make love — or perform Mr. Lawrence 's equivalent for love-making — and they do nothing else — they not only lose all the amenities , refinements and graces which many centuries have built up in order to make love-making tolerable ; they seem to reascend the metamorphoses of evolution , passing backward beyond ape and fish to some hideous coitus of protoplasm . |
| 10 | As people get wealthier right , one of the , they not only demand more goods , but they demand a wider variety of what is essentially or what can be classified as the same good . |
| 11 | And does it not readily pervade all bodies ? |
| 12 | To the Labour party , they are untidy matters , which is why it not only opposes these changes but laughs when they are mentioned . |
| 13 | Last year it not only opposed these proposals , it sent Alex , er a T U C hack if there ever was one , |
| 14 | It not only puts another nail in socialism 's coffin , but deprives him of a peerage . |
| 15 | In displaying the consistency of involvement and leadership in the Conservative party with regard to Europe , is he not finally giving this country the role that it lost with the empire ? |
| 16 | And I would maintain that for all his limited command of English and his limited general knowledge , he not only knew all there was to know about how to run a house , he did in his prime come to acquire that ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ , as the Hayes Society puts it . |
| 17 | But having let himself sink as far as he could go , he began to rise and with such gathering force and fury that he not only routed all who had disbelieved in him , he left even the believers agape . |
| 18 | Euthymides felt this himself , for he not only signed this vase on the front : among the figures on the back he wrote ‘ As never Euphronios ’ . |