Example sentences of "not [adv] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only now that men and women are beginning to realize that representative institutions are not necessarily guardians of freedom but can themselves become engines of tyranny . |
| 2 | North listened to this impassively ; when it was over his eyes filled with tears , but these were not necessarily tears of compunction . |
| 3 | But when such rifts occur , they are not necessarily evidence of lack of love ; they are more often due to the temporary emotional instability of the mourners , and usually heal swiftly , family unity being restored as the grief is worked through . |
| 4 | At this point the social worker introduced the notion of emotional reasoning , which suggests that ‘ feelings of guilt are not necessarily evidence of guilt ’ . |
| 5 | A lump , abnormal bleeding or a change in a wart or mole are not necessarily symptoms of cancer , but they should be checked out , so consult your doctor without delay and avoid unnecessary worry . |
| 6 | ‘ ( They ) are not necessarily men of judgement . ’ |
| 7 | Not only north of Leeds , but here in Hoyland — if you can see . |
| 8 | Trade unions and their officers — and , indeed , groups of workmen , official or unofficial — are entitled to induce others to break their contracts — not only contracts of employment but other contracts as well — they are entitled to interfere and prevent the performance of contracts by others — all with impunity . |
| 9 | They were not only evidence of disagreement amongst abolitionists but perceived by contemporaries to have different religious and political characteristics . |
| 10 | Structures of social relationship are not only structures of indebtedness , they are also structures of power . |
| 11 | A village essentially consisted of a group of ie sharing not only location of residence but often occupation . |
| 12 | The King placed before him not only works of Wagenseil , but those of [ Johann Christian ] Bach , Abel and Handel and he played off everything prima vista … |
| 13 | Plotting functions encourage experimentation , allowing not only trials of equations other than that selected as optimum , but also zooming parts of plots to amplify relevance of the fit and resizing the graph to judge extrapolation effects . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Local groups , joined in a network , together and with St William 's and its agents , should be not only validators of priorities ; they should also become centres of influence and information in local communities , in a stronger position than ever before to influence institutional government . |
| 16 | Not only lack of skill , but lack of opportunity to utilize those skills , depressed women 's rate of pay . |
| 17 | It seems to me that these dreams were not only manifestations of hunger , but that they also evinced a desire to be normal and part of the natural world . |
| 18 | The mass media are not only instruments of power but , in terms of content , they are wedded to people with power or of popular acclaim ( cf the traditional criteria for news ) . |
| 19 | At first sight the paradox that liberalism requires not only freedom of contract but also freedom to breach any contract is quickly resolved . |
| 20 | The whole place smelled of putty and turpentine , and the crash had shaken down not only stars of glass , but also dust and grime . |
| 21 | Elsewhere I have argued that the whole fabric of a primary school curriculum in a socialist state like Tanzania will differ from that in a capitalist state like Kenya , for the different philosophies will affect not only selection of syllabus content but also languages of instruction , policy towards competition and examinations , links between school and community and above all the attitudes which teachers foster in the learners . |
| 22 | It is not only species of animal that die out , but whole species of feeling . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His funeral cortege was a quarter of a mile long , and the procession included not only members of Oxford University and distinguished public figures , but also representatives of the underprivileged , whose cause he had championed most vigorously . |
| 25 | To make a contribution towards this end requires not only knowledge of alternatives and commitment to putting them into practice but also an understanding of how social policy is made and implemented . |
| 26 | The notion that disciplines , being not only bodies of knowledge but bodies of people , might develop their own norms and patterns of beliefs , attitudes or behaviours , which constitute a kind of sub-culture within the general academic milieu , was originally put forward by Gaff and Wilson ( 1971 ) but has been most thoroughly explored recently by Becher ( 1989a ) . |
| 27 | 4 ) With both routine and ad hoc statistical analyses it is not only speed of presentation of information which counts but also — and more importantly — quality . |
| 28 | He pursued not only economies of scale but also reductions in the time occupied by movements which occurred within establishments so that labour could be used efficiently . |
| 29 | Perhaps the papers must be examined twice by two different examiners in different parts of the country ; the marks must be sent in to the central body by a certain date ; there may be not only scores of examination papers but hundreds , each of them containing the attempts of several questions . |
| 30 | It was not only gifts of cash that kept the voluntary hospitals going , but the donation by leading doctors of their services . |