Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pursued not only economies of scale but also reductions in the time occupied by movements which occurred within establishments so that labour could be used efficiently . |
| 2 | So , early this century , the regulatory position might be briefly summarised as protecting the minority of people driven into debt to make ends meet ; on the assumption that they faced not only hardship in itself but also particular risk of exploitation by unscrupulous lenders . |
| 3 | His funeral cortege was a quarter of a mile long , and the procession included not only members of Oxford University and distinguished public figures , but also representatives of the underprivileged , whose cause he had championed most vigorously . |
| 4 | So is the range of the gifts , which included not only items of direct utility to a church , such as the ecclesiastical vestments and bells received by St Cuthbert , but also objects whose chief characteristic was that they had belonged to the king , like Æthelstan 's cap and Edgar 's cloak . |
| 5 | Justin came from Nablus in Palestine to Ephesus where , according to his own account ( which may not be plain prose ) , he studied with teachers of several different schools — Stoic , Aristotelian , Pythagorean , Platonist — expecting from the last named not only clarity for his mind but light for his soul . |
| 6 | In the first batch , the Preston by-pass ( 1958 ) and the Lancaster and Maidstone by-passes ( 1960 ) formed not only part of the national motorway pattern but also constituted important local features in the urban environment . |
| 7 | Natural history in the nineteenth century meant not only arguments about the system and man 's place in it ; it also meant great quantities of illustrated books and papers . |
| 8 | Scientific illustration meant not only pictures of animals , plants and rocks , but also of bridges , gas-works and railways . |
| 9 | King denounced not only whites for their paternalism and racialism , but blacks also for their enduring ‘ slave mentality ’ . |
| 10 | The conquest brought not only soldiers to Latin America but also priests and missionaries , for the christianising mission of the Spaniards and Portuguese was vital to their cause . |
| 11 | He did not always side with the city , though he did concern himself with urban and industrial problems . |
| 12 | And he said , today he phoned me just as I was going out and I did n't really sort of stop and talk to him very long . |
| 13 | It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured . |
| 14 | you , you , you 're relying on , but you did n't really sort of go back and say , I mean I , I would use a phrase like erm you know , regards to planning your future I 'm sure you found that of benefit to you tonight and get re and actually dig a bit deeper in that and say what was it in the , in , in that actual form that , that |
| 15 | You , you apologized for lateness the only thing I wonder on there is er you know it 's ea it 's easy enough to say that you did n't actually sort of clarify the time that you were gon na be there , you just accepted that you were late erm but I mean that 's a you know ju just a point I wonder that rather than apologizing straight of all , straight , straight away if you knew you were late then that was one thing that perhaps you could 've got that in the initial greeting . |
| 16 | Well this , they said not before end of May . |
| 17 | The attack was so sudden that Riven had not even time to be afraid . |
| 18 | The students had not only training in teaching methods but in growing their own food , and we had twenty acres of rice land , an acre of garden , a Berkshire boar imported to improve the strength and size of the village pigs , and several pure-bred cocks to convert the village hens from laying two clutches of a dozen eggs each year to something like 150 bigger and better eggs . |
| 19 | These had not only control of promotions in them , with powers of life and death over their men , but even the right to impose their own systems of drill and tactics . |