Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not only evidence of disagreement amongst abolitionists but perceived by contemporaries to have different religious and political characteristics . |
| 2 | Jacques 's flute method , compositions and instrument were not only characteristic of the early Baroque flute but elegantly expressed its aesthetic virtually to perfection . |
| 3 | The CSO 's new director , Bill McLennan , said the changes were not only part of general tidying up operation to standardise distribution but also to prevent leaks . |
| 4 | Tealtaoich was not exactly padding into the forest and he was not precisely slinking into it either . |
| 5 | The trouble was that ( where it was not already part of tradition ) the introduction of piece-work was often resisted , especially by the skilled men , and that it was complex and obscure not only for the workers , but for employers who often had only the haziest idea of what production-norms to set . |
| 6 | There was not even evidence of men initially without such predilections enduring a process of seduction . |
| 7 | He was not even Bishop of the Cornish See at the time of his imprisonment . |
| 8 | Californian sunshine was not particularly kind to the English complexion , and circumstances had evidently not treated Laura well . |
| 9 | When the group began , Gedge was not particularly interest in lyric-writing , and like singing , he considered it a necessary evil . |
| 10 | Sutton 's focus on the Sun , and on headlines like ‘ GOTCHA ! ’ , was not just rivalry with its editor , Kelvin Mackenzie . |
| 11 | It was signed by the organisation 's prize draw manager no less so it was not just case of anybody going round breaking the good news . |
| 12 | Meanwhile I 'd go round the town interviewing trade unionists , redundant workers , councillors , tenants and community associations : the reform of men was not yet part of their agenda . |
| 13 | Well I have to say that much of the impact of this story depends upon your being able to see and think of Boy as beautiful , admirable and even adorable in the true senses of those difficult and dangerous but nonetheless precious and necessary words ; I suggest therefore that you amend my descriptions of Boy and his lover — but I anticipate myself , that was not to be for several weeks yet ; that ‘ Great Romance of Our Times ’ , as it became known amongst us , had not yet begun , its theme tune had not yet been composed on Gary 's piano , its scenario was not yet subject of our daily gossip and speculation , we were not yet auditioning for a place in the credits — The Friend , The Admirer , Blonde Man in Bar , Second Guest at Dinner Party . |
| 14 | The Captain General , a civilian as much as a military administrator , was master of his province , the corregidor of his district as the minister was not yet master of his department . |
| 15 | It was not yet time for Johann to open the front door for my friends , and I still had to wait . |
| 16 | The top award went to Brian Miller from Merseyside who was not only top in his branch for generating leads , but top in his area and in the whole country . |
| 17 | For a vacant Northumbria was not only prey for the sons of Godwin and for Mercia . |
| 18 | Sir Ralph Sadler , for instance , was not only Secretary of State from 1540 to 1543 , he was also Master of the Great Wardrobe from 1543 to 1553 , Keeper of the Hanaper in Chancery from 1535 until his death in 1587 , and notary in Chancery from 1534 . |
| 19 | Those which used Aube wines put forward the argument that the Aube was not only part of the historic province of Champagne , but its chief town , Troyes , was the ancient provincial capital and once the seat of the counts of Champagne . |
| 20 | Finally , two other points , admittedly only suggestive , might be mentioned : first , the fact that Mehmed II is noted for his activity in organizing , and centralizing control over , the various institutions of the state in a number of ways ; and second , the fact that the Sahn was not only part of his most important pious endowment in his newly-conquered capital of Istanbul , but also far and away the most extensive medrese complex thus far created in the Ottoman state . |
| 21 | It was not only reform as an aim of punishment that the Justice Model eyed with suspicion . |
| 22 | This was not only vengeance for a lost son , but an invasion . |
| 23 | It was not only solidarity with the Soviet resistance that brought members flooding into the Party . |
| 24 | This might have been expected to mitigate fear of death ; unfortunately , with the general decay of faith towards the end of the century , it was not only terror of hell that was declining , but also hope of immortality . |
| 25 | Many of the papers carried photographs of Dobson and Creed side by side , Dobson 's arm around Creed 's shoulder , as if Creed was not only heir to the business , but also a son . |
| 26 | Even though , therefore , in 691 Aethelred confirmed a grant of land by Swaefheard to Abbess Aebbe in 690 ( CS 42 : S 10 ) , and confirmed also the successive donations to Hoo ( CS 89 : S 233 ) , it may be that he was not entirely master of the situation . |
| 27 | Lack of spontaneity suggests a high degree of calculation , looking at a situation as if one was not really part of it . |
| 28 | Though its ruler , Nasr-ed-Din Shah , visited Europe several times from the early 1870s onwards , and also established diplomatic representatives there , until the end of the nineteenth century Persia was not really part of the contemporary world . |
| 29 | The result was not always music of good quality , but many worshippers were attracted by it and folk music made much headway , particularly in those parishes which had no working church musicians to compose for their own communities and resources . |
| 30 | The locally stable strategy in any particular part of the trench lines was not necessarily Tit for Tat itself . |