Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it should also be remarked that algebraic type D solutions do not necessarily have horizons rather than singularities , a counterexample being one of the degenerate Ferrari-Ibañez ( 1987 b ) solutions . |
| 2 | Yet still not enough takes place nationally or internationally ( where there is an additional danger of conferences being high on rhetoric , low in practicalities ) . |
| 3 | That 's not enough to make mummy well . ’ |
| 4 | It is certainly not enough to face reality bluntly if the future develops as I describe it . |
| 5 | As noted earlier , we should not perhaps take labels too seriously . |
| 6 | Her family did not much understand gardening either , and took little pleasure in the fruit of their unskilled , social labours ; as far back as she could remember , Clara could recollect her mother 's perpetual nagging at her father to cut the lawn , her father 's occasional outburst of resentment against the boys who trampled on the borders . |
| 7 | Given the evidence that punishment which immediately precedes a forbidden act ( rarely possible for busy parents ) maximizes resistance to temptation and minimizes guilt , you might try not only to sanction misbehaviour promptly but ( where possible ) forestall your child 's action just as it gets under way . |
| 8 | But , on getting her act together later the next day , Laura had been appalled to discover that not only had Ross already left for Australia — but she 'd been given a small attic room next to the children 's nursery . |
| 9 | Second , this lack of focus not only renders policy less effective , but crucially the absence of clearly stated rules and guidelines introduces great uncertainty for firms . |
| 10 | Couples not only make love more often than at home , they also talk more often to each other . |
| 11 | But a cut of ten times that amount in the whole world 's output of carbon dioxide , shared among all countries , would not only cost Britain far less : it would bring bigger benefits in climate stability . |
| 12 | This is no doubt why we find employers from now on not only buying machines more readily , but also setting women to work on them , a combination which aroused the union to sudden awareness of the threat . |
| 13 | Not only does Rutland no longer exist , swallowed up by a greater Leicestershire , but the trains which cross the old county now only stop at Oakham , its last surviving station . |
| 14 | Not only does clothing quickly date a picture , but ordinary people are far from having the grace and glory of good models . |
| 15 | Not only does clothing quickly date a picture , but ordinary people are far from having the grace and glory of good models . |
| 16 | From the start the ICC will prove that an unconventional centre not only does things differently . |
| 17 | The collector of signed letters by modern statesmen faces an additional hazard in the form of a machine which not only reproduces signatures exactly but holds a fountain pen or biro to accomplish them . |
| 18 | Not only has Burlison never made any verbal contribution to the committee 's workings , there has to date ( and I 've attended the whole of every meeting ) never been a vote in the Plant Committee . |
| 19 | I certainly have no objection to your publishing my name and address in the next issue of CONTACT and would hope that it would not only motivate people already over here in North America to get in touch with one another but also those at present studying in Salford who might have an interest in working here after graduation . |
| 20 | This important oath not only bound Barbarossa never to recognise Alexander as pope , but also bound imperial successors as well as the bishops and princes . |
| 21 | Their more rural environments have not only attracted people there for holidays and retirement , but also induced elements of industrial growth . |
| 22 | The members ' rights of ownership entitle them not only to make decisions personally about how their property is to be used , but also to delegate that power to others , and they are free to stipulate what degree of control they require over the discretion ceded by them . |
| 23 | The fact is that before the evening was over I had not only penetrated Karen sexually , but perhaps even more important we had shared a good laugh together at Dennis 's expense . |
| 24 | Not only do women still provide nearly all the care for the old , the sick and the young ( and most of it still unpaid ) , but also social policies are still framed , allocated and delivered on the assumption that they do so . |
| 25 | Not only do books often tend to be rather broad in their approach to a subject , but they can also take a long time to be published after they are written and the information may thus be out of date . |
| 26 | Larry Ellison 's having quite a month : not only did Oracle finally get version 7 out , his house got a to-die-for spread in Architectural Digest . |
| 27 | Not only did Amy always travel with them but John was regularly at rehearsals . |
| 28 | If a journalist wished to talk to Richard Branson , he simply telephoned ; not only did Branson invariably take the call , but he treated the journalist with civility . |
| 29 | Ad hoc reports are an essential part of any system that aspires not merely to process data routinely but to permit management information to be creamed off the top . |
| 30 | Unlike the First Concerto , which in terms of its piano writing is completely honest , and where only the first movement 's double trills need to be re-arranged to become audible , the Second Concerto requires some adjustments in order to serve Brahms 's purpose , and not merely to make life easier for the pianist ! |