Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes an ideal coupling for children of all ages to have three French masterpieces on a single disc-not just Saint-Saens ' Carnival of the Animals , but Bizet 's Children 's Games and Ravel 's Mother Goose , all in fresh , well-sprung performances from the LSO under the ballet conductor , Barry Wordsworth . |
| 2 | The nuts and bolts of running an airline were not necessarily Fields 's strength , Branson said , ‘ but conceptually , he was very good . ’ |
| 3 | Not only Modigliani 's drinking worried Lipchitz , he criticized his way of eating his food highly seasoned , with piles of salt and pepper on his plate . |
| 4 | It was not only Virgin 's reputation that was being challenged — Branson had no doubt that the contract signed with Sting was fair ; but if a court ruled otherwise it could set a precedent which other acts , and their lawyers , would be looking to exploit . |
| 5 | Secondly ( Chapter 3 ) , I shall examine not only Nizan 's resignation from the party and his subsequent death , but also his dramatic afterlife , a moment of political , ideological and cultural reproduction in which the complexity of his existence is obliterated beneath politically advantageous stereotypes : traitor , police spy , rebel , anti-hero . |
| 6 | The weak position of women in the labour market , and their responsibilities within the home as domestic workers and child rearers , affect not only women 's access to housing , but its structure and design . |
| 7 | A day of celebration and a day of tragedy , one superimposed upon the other , so that Amabel , who did not even wish to be rational , found it easy to believe that Ben Braithwaite had broken not only Linnet 's heart , but Gemma 's . |
| 8 | Here then , it is not only Trapnel 's voice which is directed by God , but also the voices of the multitude . |
| 9 | Wilfrid 's failure to secure a sympathetic hearing suggests that it was not only Oswiu 's family which found him unpalatable . |
| 10 | She had a spare pair , which saved not only Eva 's eyesight on that occasion but throughout the remainder of her tour up to Shetland . |
| 11 | It was not only Jean-Claude 's selfishness that struck me , but my collusion in it . |
| 12 | The exaltation of Jesus to the Father 's right hand is not only God 's vindication of his spreading from Jerusalem person and his achievement ; it is the precondition of the coming of his Spirit upon the witnesses who are to carry on his mission ( Acts 2:32f ) . |
| 13 | Karen was not only Dennis 's wife but also a physical education instructor who could , as the coroner facetiously remarked , have swum to her husband 's rescue using either the crawl , breast-stroke , back-stroke or butterfly . |
| 14 | its not only children 's programme , the young chap said to the bird expert which is the best er potatoes or bread ? , oh he says potatoes every time |
| 15 | In ‘ A Room with a View ’ , Cecil asks not only Lucy 's mother 's permission but also her brother 's . |
| 16 | These should be aimed at reducing tendencies towards social polarization and at achieving a better matching of people with appropriate jobs and local facilities , thereby increasing not only individuals ' quality of life but also the efficiency of public and private investment . |
| 17 | Just as AIDS can affect not only people 's health but the whole social and economic infrastructure of a country , so too it requires a holistic response when trying to deal with it . |
| 18 | So it is not only Earth 's distance from the Sun that is important for living things , but the way the solid parts of the Earth are spread across the globe . |
| 19 | Then , in 1187 an event occurred which was to change not only Richard 's life , but the history of Europe and much of the rest of the world for generations to come . |
| 20 | Her answer , which changed not only Richard 's life but mine too , was , ‘ If you take him it would be the answer to my prayers . ’ |
| 21 | It is significant that Bethlehem was not only David 's city , but also the ancient centre of a Tammuz cult , with a shrine that remained active well into biblical times . |
| 22 | The French tract , while not primarily concerned with the sea and the exercise of sea power , none the less tried to show not merely France 's equality but its superiority over England in matters maritime . |
| 23 | In saying this , it is likely that he had in mind not merely Lessing 's criterion of beauty , but his fundamental contrast between poetry and the visual arts . |
| 24 | I know he 's not exactly God 's gift to forensic science , but he 's a conscientious plodder and you 're not going to stimulate either his brain or his speed by bullying the poor little beast . |
| 25 | They need cars to take folk to hospital or help wheel people out — it 's not just women 's work , you know , all that . ’ |
| 26 | And not just ACT 's code , but modules developed internally or by a third party . |
| 27 | She was not just Fenna 's friend and child , his daughter of delight . |
| 28 | It 's not usually Violet 's style to shout support for Lennox but this time , just seconds into the fight so many feared her son could not win , she found herself shouting louder even than ‘ Raizure 's ’ girls . |
| 29 | The spec was not solely Sun 's work , as the piece implied , nor ‘ rubberstamped ’ by the twelve companies that wrote it . |
| 30 | But even then , before I knew her at all , I sensed that normality was not really Karen 's thing . |