Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [prep] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the moment the news had broken that he was not dead at all but very much alive in Australia he had been unable to think of anything else . |
| 2 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 3 | But if his practical measures are anything to go by , he may be thinking of the Libyan nation , for he discourages international marriage not only with English or American persons , but with Algerians , Egyptians and Palestinians . |
| 4 | The lack of sex segregation and the late hours moreover , had bad effect not only on unmarried but also on married women . |
| 5 | The fieldworker , Gary Armstrong , already well known to many core fans prior to the formal start of this research , is collecting data not only on minor and major incidents of violence by fans , but also and as importantly , on the more frequent occasions when the same young men gather simply to enjoy football or one another 's company . |
| 6 | This is true not only for ageing but also for the onset of disabilities ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 7 | This is grievous news , grievous not only for this and other universities but for the nation ; for it is a grave national misfortune to be governed by those who do not know what a university is and what distinguishes it from other institutions of learning and study , not to mention training . |
| 8 | This goal had important consequences for the role given , not only to critical or scholarly commentaries and other incrustations upon the essential text , but also to the teacher : " In dealing with literature in any full sense , to efface oneself , to stand away , between the child and literature , is the highest and not the easiest of duties which the teacher can undertake " . |
| 9 | It is strange that the party gave priority , not only to central and military organs , but also the guberniia- and uezd-level papers in 1922 , before intervening in the national minority sector in 1923 . |
| 10 | Some items are inherently given because of their meaning and this generally applies not only to spoken and written English but also to most languages . |
| 11 | Secondly , we have been trying to develop an understanding of locality in human agency ; one responsive not only to social or cultural processes but also to instinctive demands and human interaction . |
| 12 | Commentators have described it as a ‘ Stalinist trial ’ , not only of Pavlović but also of others who hold similar views . |
| 13 | Lewis had got to know him because he was a frequent visitor to Oxford , anxious to get a job in the Oxford English Faculty , and a friend not only of Tolkien but also of Nevill Coghill . |
| 14 | His rise to the very pinnacle of the business world is evidence not only of academic and managerial skills , but of social skills as well . |
| 15 | A study by Skrimshire of three council housing estates of different socio-economic structures concluded that there were differences in medical care provision not only between middle-class and working-class areas but also between solidly working-class and socially mixed areas : |
| 16 | But , as Townsend suggests , structured dependence is not only about macro-economic and social issues . |
| 17 | Developments in the republics in October , in the accelerated process of the dissolution of central Soviet power , included assertions of increasing autonomy not only over economic but also over military arrangements [ see under individual headings below , but also p. 38553 for Gorbachev 's statement when proposing arms reductions that central control over Soviet nuclear weapons would remain ] . |
| 18 | This is because of the great importance of infant mortality , the weightiest component of life expectancy and general mortality in developing countries , and also because a large body of observations concerning the effects are available not only from developed but also from developing countries and which are much more reliable than data on fetal mortality . |
| 19 | A range of studies have demonstrated the vitality of the parent-child tie , sustained not only by visiting but also by a flow of assistance of various kinds in both directions . |
| 20 | In the Newport hundreds , where the level of lay assessments was low and left substantially unchanged by the subsidy , the proportion of wealth owned by the Church was much higher than in the more advanced Chilterns , not only in 1522 but also after the initial assessments had been scaled down for the subsidy . |
| 21 | Yes , well the economic effect on our own country , well when I say under , er Europe , er , with this proposal that er , we have to open up our markets er for the benefit of the Soviet , er because , that is going to cost er , what they 're , what they 're asking for , not only in Soviet but also across Eastern Europe is that the agricultural market , the steel , and the textile market , all the most sensitive areas , should be opened up to them , and that 's going to shed a , a great increase in unemployment er within the , within the common market . |
| 22 | The size of the department and the diversity of interests among its staff allow it to offer a wide range of supervision , not only in modern and medieval British economic , social , demographic and business history , but also on South Asia , the Caribbean , Russia and contemporary South-Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | Compositors with a wage increase of 40 per cent did less well , while typefounders , oppressed by a tightly knit group of employers , were unable to secure a money increase and stayed for seventy years on 18s ( 90p ) a week , experiencing an evident decline in living standards not only in 1795 and 1800 – 1 , but over the last ten years of the wars . |
| 24 | For Dewey democracy was to be understood not only in political but also in social and economic terms ; as a way of life and as a moral ideal and not simply as a form of government . |
| 25 | This positive shift in investment occurred not only in one or two large industries but for all industries — a fact which strengthens the view that the shift was due to regional policy rather than to other factors . |
| 26 | 1.43 It was said in Coenen v Payne [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 984 ( which was a defendant 's application for a split trial ) that such a trial will be ordered whenever it is just and convenient , and not only in difficult and unusual cases , and in Ashworth v Berkeley Walbrood ( 1984 ) The Times , 13 July that the court can be asked to try a preliminary issue whenever there is a real probability that the effect will be to save time and expense and simplify the issues , which need not be limited to questions of law . |
| 27 | Chemists are interested not only in isolated and dissociating species but also in colliding molecules and their reactions . |
| 28 | Radio in Zambia broadcast not only in English but also in seven Zambian languages ; therefore , unlike television and most newspapers , it was able to communicate with a large proportion of the people in their own language or at least in one they could understand . |
| 29 | Certainly , the means of expression are limited and their values rather general , so that there is not the same flexibility of tense as in an explicit finite clause ( but this is a common contrast found , not only in English but in many languages , between finite main verb phrases and other syntactic groups ( see Ferris and Jah , 1989 ) . |
| 30 | What is less obvious is that drama can have a central role in developing children 's reading and writing skills , not only in English but also in most other curriculum areas . |