Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , the injustices against which prisoners struggle are not merely to do with the way in which we run our prisons . |
| 2 | The role of the occupational health department is not only to provide a service to those who are unwell but to assist the employer to gain the maximum benefit from the labour force by maintaining and promoting health among staff , thus reducing absence . |
| 3 | A chapter is not enough to describe this fine mountain . |
| 4 | The notes of guidance to the Code stress that the purpose of any interview is not necessarily to obtain an admission but to obtain from the suspect his explanation of the facts . |
| 5 | The intention is not only to record the whereabouts of existing and established collections , but to make available to researchers up-to-date information about less well known groups of records , especially those still in private hands . |
| 6 | This is seen as crucial in attracting people away from the current crop of cramped top-of-the-range coupes — essential if the car is not simply to draw existing Bentley customers from the Turbo R. |
| 7 | If a power of appointment , either in law or in fact , is vested in trade unions , the effect is not only to arrogate to them rights attaching only to ownership , but to establish them in this particular matter as the constitutional equals of Parliament . |
| 8 | Natural daylight is not enough to allow for this process . |
| 9 | And the effect was not only to strengthen the Reformers ' parliamentary position . |
| 10 | If the debut album was n't enough to send such theories flying towards the bin , tonight deals them a death-blow . |
| 11 | In two closely argued and provocative essays Alfred Rieber claimed that the object of the emancipation was not even to benefit the gentry ( let alone the peasantry ) , but rather to put the principal institutions of the autocracy , the treasury and the army , in a position to recover from the ravages of the Crimean War . |
| 12 | The loss of one vehicle and the leading tank 's offensive capability was not enough to cause a full scale withdrawal . |
| 13 | Even her blood was not enough to entice him . |
| 14 | Such a slight obstruction was not enough to affect the taking of the sortes , when they were opening the book with ceremony , both hands parting the leaves and a finger pointing the line . |
| 15 | as if massive trauma and often great suffering are not enough to face , those who are informed that they are infected have also to deal with social stigma ( unlike many other diseases ) . |
| 16 | Cnut may well have profited from this sort of process , for the sources are scanty and their silence on the matter of simony is not enough to rule it out . |
| 17 | Being brought up in a christian home is n't enough to make you a christian . |
| 18 | But , the VGA stresses , psychometric testing is not there to glean the wheat and discard the chaff . |
| 19 | The Conservative philosophy is not just to increase spending . |
| 20 | This was firmly denied by the Committee , both before and after publication , who argued that to urge a change in the law was not necessarily to approve or endorse homosexual behaviour . |
| 21 | But surely even having second thoughts about marriage was n't enough to prompt that kind of reaction , particularly as Isabelle must have known she was expecting Fabien 's child . |
| 22 | as if the cold was n't enough to put up with , Detective Lomax 's disgust and discomfort were increased by the damp clinging fog , which was gradually thickening and reducing visibility . |
| 23 | The grand plan was not only to achieve this stage of evolution in the shortest possible time , but also to eliminate Marxism , the opposing principle or force relative to this philosophy . |
| 24 | So , third , the purpose of the Council was not just to restate and defend past doctrines — for that a Council was not necessary — but to ‘ make a leap forward in doctrinal insight and the education of consciences in ever greater fidelity to authentic teaching . |
| 25 | At the same time , however , Ure warns that the team is not there to handle day-to-day risk management and the general belief is that the more responsibility for that is pushed down to line management , the better . |
| 26 | The author 's job is not merely to offer an illustrated Who 's Who entry , but to turn elements of a man 's life into a dramatic entity . |
| 27 | The job is not only to describe , to say for example ‘ Sixty-four per cent of the land was planted with maize on 30 June ’ , but to make meanings and intentions plain . |
| 28 | And my job is not actually to punish them but to reflect back to them what they 're doing . |
| 29 | But difference is not enough to trigger separatism . |
| 30 | But the aim of radical reform is not merely to change the law 's approach so that it becomes more in tune with modern perceptions of sexual assault , but to address directly the problem of processing rape . |