Example sentences of "not [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these questions relate to a captain 's last Test as captain , not necessarily to the last Test in which he played . |
| 2 | In the first type of case , but not necessarily in the second , the consent is a response to a proposal initiated by another . |
| 3 | The accounts which had been submitted to the plaintiffs had dealt not only with the first defendant 's costs , charges and expenses but also with the receivers ' receipts and payments . |
| 4 | This evidence sheds valuable light , therefore , not only on the first recorded Northumbrian royal overtures to the Frankish court but also on the disturbed state of the kingdom on the eve of Alhred 's expulsion in 774 when he was driven from York at Easter ( ASC D , s.a. 774 ) into exile among the Picts . |
| 5 | I enjoyed ‘ Futility ’ very much as it is poem with a message for all people and like most of Wilfred Owen 's poems it is timeless and has a meaning not only for the first World War but for wars to come . |
| 6 | There has been so much drama , not only over the first two days , when Henri Leconte had made his fairy tale return to Davis Cup play with his stunning defeat of Sampras in the second singles and then his inspirational contribution to France 's doubles success as he and Forget maintained an 8–0 unbeaten record together in the competition , that it was both right and proper that there should have been more to come . |
| 7 | And it is not only in the Third World that people shy away from permanent sterility . |
| 8 | To anticipate the argument a little , my view is that consumption patterns of the majority of people ( not only in the Third World ) are ill-matched to their needs because both consumption and needs are generally dictated by transnational practices . |
| 9 | The problem is that dependent development seems to be possible not only in the Third World but also in underprivileged areas within the hegemonic countries of the First World . |
| 10 | It remained for Buus ( e.g. in No. 4 of his First Book ) to achieve the unification of a ricercare by deriving all its imitative sections from the same basic theme , which was , exceptionally , transposed to other degrees of the mode — not merely to the fifth or fourth . |
| 11 | Europe disappeared from the political imagination for the duration , not merely during the last month of the campaign , but during a large part of the long and tedious pre-campaign . |
| 12 | Not long after the first Love Feast plans were made for the building of a Methodist Chapel , facing the village green and just behind where St Mark 's Church now stands . |
| 13 | ( As for the war metaphor itself , that began to appear not long after the first world war stopped . ) |
| 14 | For The Silmarillion at least , though not published till 1977 , four years after its author 's death , was in existence as a ‘ narrative structure ’ not long after the First World War , while a version of it was submitted to George Allen & Unwin for publication forty years before it eventually came out . |
| 15 | That was not long after the Second World War broke out . |
| 16 | May I correct Mr MacLaren on one small historical point where he states that ‘ the Royal Navy had abandoned hammocks not long after the Second World War ’ ? |
| 17 | Just a brief response to a small part of Iain MacLaren 's letter , where he refers to the Royal Navy abandoning hammocks not long after the Second World War . |
| 18 | I do not know how the RAF dealt with bed-wetters in the days of National Service , but I am certain that even although the Royal Navy had abandoned hammocks not long after the Second World War , a persistent enuretic on board a warship would create even more serious problems than he could in an army barracks . |
| 19 | Not long after the last regional ITV company went on air , the focus of interest shifted back to the BBC . |
| 20 | Wallerstein elaborated the concept of the semi-periphery to describe such countries , and this idea has been picked up by many scholars as a useful tool in analyzing the NICs and , increasingly , those countries that are on the fringes of the First World , but not exactly in the Third World , like Ireland , Portugal , and the Balkan states ( for example , Mouzelis , 1986 ) . |
| 21 | We have to think a hundred years ahead , not just for the next year or two . |
| 22 | His fight is not just for the Third World , but for North America and Europe as well . |
| 23 | Golding 's Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ) is in the third person , though like Defoe 's most famous novel it is about an island marooning ; but Rites of Passage ( 1980 ) — the first of the Tarpaulin trilogy — is a memoir-novel , composed not just in the first person but in a pastiche of the English of the Napoleonic wars , especially in its sea-terms — a sort of ‘ sub-Jane Austen language ’ , as he has breezily put it . |
| 24 | And not just in the Third World . |
| 25 | The same basic principles apply everywhere , not just in the Third World . |
| 26 | Although the sing still takes place in July , it is not always on the last Sunday of the month . |
| 27 | The first century was not long delayed , 131 not out in the third Test helping his team to a seven-wicket win , and he ended his first Test series with an average of 147 . |
| 28 | There is a good deal of evidence to suggest that managerial and technical talent flows from the domestic sector to the transnational companies rather than vice versa , particularly but not exclusively in the Third World ( see Gershenberg , 1987 , on Kenya ; Okada , 1983 , on Indonesia ) . |
| 29 | Community care also highlights one of the fundamental flaws of charters — there is little point being able to complain about a service if it simply is not there in the first place . |
| 30 | There 's memorable dialogue in this film , not least in the last scene , which turns Jane Darwell , as Ma Joad , into a spokeswoman for all the oppressed of the Earth and ends the picture on a defiant , upbeat note that rightly won her an Oscar . |