Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Local searches — a new motorway is a boon if sited a couple of miles away , but not right at the end of the road . |
2 | Within two days of leaving the warm winter of Hong Kong , I was standing shivering in the endless summer gales of the roaring forties on the shores of the Magellan Strait — if not obviously at the edge of any tectonic , plates , then certainly at the very edge of the world . |
3 | Before long West Germany 's Bundestag may confront the same problem : the federal elections late next year could give the Republicans enough votes to achieve representation — and not necessarily at the expense of Hans-Dietrich Genscher 's Free Democrats . |
4 | Teach your child to see the other person 's point of view ( not necessarily at the expense of his or her own ) . |
5 | ‘ Not enough at the moment , unluckily . |
6 | In this country we can count our blessings that our children are not constantly at the mercy of these diseases . |
7 | If it sounds funny now , it was not so at the time . |
8 | The Norfolk Display Team appeared with their brollies not only at the Essex Rally , but also at Norfolk 's own rally in March — an occasion additionally graced by Rosemary Frost 's ‘ witches ’ complete with broomsticks in their item ‘ Stick with Medau ’ . |
9 | East Anglian surveyors Bidwells have taken up the cudgels on behalf of farmers not only at the timescale for completion of claim forms for area and set-aside payments and ewe and beef premiums , but also at the fines which could result from late or incorrect returns . |
10 | Uplands Lados had an extremely impressive track record : he won the challenge not only at the Melbourne Royal , but also at the Sydney Royal . |
11 | A major piece of work is to make sure that the assessment processes do allow us to deal with er , people who are requiring specialist palliative care , not only at the hospice , but in the form of out-reach work , and one project that is proposed is some use of joint finance to help dovetail the work on assessment , er , from the Health Authority front with that provided by Social Services . |
12 | As the Chief Secretary takes refuge in international comparisons , especially with the other countries of the Group of Seven , will he explain why the United Kingdom is not only at the bottom of the investment league of the G7 , but at the bottom of the investment league of leading European nations ? |
13 | Some of these materials will be used for periods of presentation and exposition , not only at the beginning but at helpful points during the programme . |
14 | One may look not only at the rest of the section in which the word appears but at the statute as a whole , and even at earlier legislation dealing with the same subject-matter — for it is assumed that when Parliament passed an Act , it probably had the earlier legislation in mind , and probably intended to use words with the same meaning as before . |
15 | The Company was always alive to the traffic potential of sporting and other events , not only at the Crystal Palace and as well as running extra cars on Saturday afternoons between the ‘ Pawleyne Arms ’ Penge and Selhurst for football traffic , all spare cars available from both depôts were pressed into service between West Croydon and ‘ Cold Blows ’ , Mitcham Common , when Mitcham Fair took place each year . |
16 | Quantitative methods have been applied to social developments not only at the centre but in individual provinces , towns and villages . |
17 | A gruelling test of endurance not only at the competition … but also a test of endurance to get there . |
18 | It is a moving story that leaves one marvelling not only at the bravery of Middleton himself but that fate had brought so many courageous men together in the one crew . |
19 | John Thicknesse 's 13 pages trace cricket 's sad decline , laying the blame not only at the feet of grasping humourless players but weak umpires too . |
20 | This requires a closer integration of the social organization of work , an integration not only at the level of relations between workers , but also between the different hierarchical levels . |
21 | Anglo-French affairs were to a large degree regulated by personal connections , not only at the level of the ruling houses . |
22 | It will secure jobs not only at the company 's plants at Warton and Samlesbury , Lancs , and Brough , Humberside , but at many sub-contractors notably Rolls-Royce at Filton , Bristol . |
23 | But by the end of the 1890s , although her work had long been recognized and she had been made a founder-councillor of the London county council in 1899 , Emma Cons was approaching a breakdown caused by overwork , not only at the theatre but in all her other housing and philanthropic efforts ( she was also vice-president of the London Society for Women 's Suffrage , an executive member of the Women 's Liberal Foundations , and a founder of the Women 's Horticultural College at Swanley ) . |
24 | Those who will seek to understand United States policy on Kuwait , Somalia and Bosnia in the 1990's will want to look not only at the personalities and style of presidents and advisers , but at the content of the knowledge base of their DSS , and above all at those who designed the system and created its rule base . |
25 | Thus , to grasp properly the significance of popular dancing in the mid-nineteenth century — the waltz , for example — it is necessary to look not only at the waltz culture of the popular classes but also at such factors as : the peasant sources of the waltz ; the use made of those sources in bourgeois culture ; the changing social relations involved in the growth of industrial capitalism , to which the romanticizing of popular culture found in bourgeois waltzing , together with its cultivation of an explicit sensuality , was probably a reaction ; the tendency of the social developments to result in the atomization of established collective social patterns and modes of corporeal expression , leading , among avant-garde composers , to a music more overtly of thought and feeling , as against a music of social gesture ; the way these same composers , by way of reaction to that situation , incorporated spiritualized versions of dance elements in their music . |
26 | And it was not only at the front that people were dying . |
27 | Negative publicity associated with alcohol abuse — eg drunken driving or underage drinking — is directed not only at the individuals involved but at the industry as well . |
28 | It should look not only at the responsibilities of Government , but at the contributions that others make : business , local authorities , NGOs and members of the public alike . |
29 | This should occur not only at the design stage but also as experience develops in operating the plant and data on actual failures and failure rates become available . |
30 | All over the place , not only at the fête , a psychic infection rages and erupts in small ugly-comic jests — ‘ They put a dead cat in my trunk ’ — but also in affronts to the human self as massive and immemorial as those Homer describes . |