Example sentences of "[vb pp] [not/n't] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , Charles Mackerras ' wonderful pot-pourri of tunes from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas for Pineapple Poll displayed how well he has caught not only the humour but also the pathos of The Bum Boat Woman 's Story . |
| 2 | Promoted to a senior lectureship in 1973 and to his professorship in German some 10 years later , he was one of the few remaining full-time members of the staff to have witnessed not only the coming of age of the University , but also the massive expansion of the Modern Languages Department and its impressive rise to prominence as an exponent of the applied approach to the teaching of languages , involving a marked shift of emphasis from a near exclusive preoccupation with literary studies in one foreign language to the development of communication skills in at least two . |
| 3 | Our interest is satiated , and we are pleased to have seen not only the Parthenon but other great buildings as well . |
| 4 | In this report the mature Ramsey specially valued not only the word uncouth- nesses but also the pointed description of his nonconforming character in the phrase on his own lines . |
| 5 | Professor Forrester Cockburn , head of the university 's department of child health at the sick children 's hospital , said the move had angered not only the university staff at Yorkhill , but the health service staff who work with them in a team effort at the hospitals . |
| 6 | This change affected not only the instrument 's sound but also the player 's technique . |
| 7 | The School for Nightingales marked not only the end of one collaboration but the beginning of another , since the cast included , among the ‘ young ladies of the Academy ’ , a dancer using the stage name of Anne de Mohan . |
| 8 | The women in the repeal movement encountered not only the power and outright misogyny of medical and military chiefs but also the restrictive codes of parliamentary politics , which defined the issues touched on by the acts as indecent and immoral . |
| 9 | Gould and Darwin must have discussed not only the alliance between the species in the Galapagos and the species on the continents , but the reliance of the Galapagos species for their individual characteristics on their particular environment . |
| 10 | He added that the government was especially pleased that the scheme had encouraged not just the planting of large forests but also of small woodlands for recreational purposes . |
| 11 | The Tories , however , were convinced that the Toleration Act had encouraged not only the growth of Dissent , but also of heresies such as Deism and Socinianism , and of irreligion in general . |
| 12 | Yet discussions of the threat to public service broadcasting have ignored not only the potential for change but also the deficiencies of the existing system which would make us question its benefits and its claim to permanence . |
| 13 | The income funded not only the keeper 's wages but also those of the pit bobby — the estate policeman . |
| 14 | The political context determined not only the timing of their introduction but their content as well : 53 indicators were related to finance , 43 to the workforce , 46 to hospital activity . |
| 15 | This move towards legislation in the field of social policy that does not proceed from evidence or research by those professionals engaged in the field , but proceeds from the ideology of the political party in power , has doubtless significantly changed not only the structure of the social services but also the role of the legislative process . |
| 16 | She had married not just the man , she had married his job , and all that it involved . |
| 17 | The tragic death of drummer Jeff Porcaro has heralded not just the end of an era but , according to Toto 's guitarist and now frontman Steve Lukather , the end of the band 's fourteen-year career … |
| 18 | Such improvements required not only the consent of the Governors of Greenwich Hospital , but also of Parliament . |
| 19 | The transition from water to land required not only the perfection of a walking limb , but modifications to the hearing system , palate , eyes and so on , and Ichthyostega had already established most of these terrestrial modifications , so it is in no sense an ‘ ancestor ’ , although it has many ancestral features . |
| 20 | Packman has examined the way in which social workers in children 's departments gradually found that good child care practice required not merely the control and care powers possessed under the 1948 Children 's Act but also preventive work to keep children out of ‘ care ’ . |