Example sentences of "not [adv] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , the decision making system in the United States can only be described as ramshackle ; however , rationality and efficiency are not necessarily the first priorities of a democratic political system , especially one as vast and heterogeneous as the United States . |
| 2 | No one has so far questioned the judgement that ‘ Montini 's letter is the single most important document for understanding not only the first session but the whole Vatican Council ’ . |
| 3 | Greece thus offers not only the first instance of this change but also the essential one for any attempt to isolate the cultural consequences of alphabetic literacy ’ ( ibid. p. 42 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think that she expected me to run down the shot ’ said Emmons , referring to her magnificent dash across the baseline to reach an all but winning forehand from Bentley which would have given her not only the first set , but also the psychological ‘ first blood ’ . |
| 5 | Yellow phosphine ( 7 ) was not only the first acridinium compound to be discovered , but was also the first basic orange dyestuff . |
| 6 | A record was set on June 14 , 1944 by not only the 401st Bomb Group , but the whole of the Eighth — they put up 1,525 four-engined bombers and 908 fighter aircraft . |
| 7 | Last Monday was not only the seventh anniversary of the accident . |
| 8 | Not exactly the first person I 'd send on a Feile stage to confront a horde of lunatics crazed by a thunderstorm but Nanci Griffith 's gifts are more private and homely . |
| 9 | Where the case is apt for a Ghosh direction , the whole test must be given not just the first part : Ravenshad [ 1990 ] Crim LR 398 ( CA ) and Brennan [ 1990 ] Crim LR 118 ( CA ) ( on handling ) . |
| 10 | It 's not just the last day of term … it 's the last day of school … and that means lessons on the floor because the furniture 's gone . |
| 11 | Not often the first person , always the third person but authentic all the same . |
| 12 | Eliot recognized that this was not simply the last poem in his sequence but also its culmination , in which the themes and textures of the preceding three parts would be gathered together in a final statement . |
| 13 | It 's not quite the first student text in the field , however , for there are already Geology and the Urban Environment and Environmental Geology , although only the latter is as comprehensive as Surficial Geology . |
| 14 | But when you first say you 've got this problem , they 're losing votes , the media is n't necessarily the first thing that 's going to come to your mind . |
| 15 | It was n't enough the first time , and it wo n't be enough now . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It is n't usually the first thing I tell people about myself , although the old dollies do have their ways of claiming my attention . ’ |
| 17 | Right planners , now according to me this is for Thursday , next Thursday week t week one Thursday so homework for Thursday finish writing a list er whoever 's giggling will you calm down of things you believe are important do this in rough and I think we 'd better underline the next bit , bring it to the lesson now , quite seriously if you have only managed to get five or six items at the moment on your list that you think are important , that 's not enough , you really do need to be going for a minimum of ten , and if you ca n't then the next piece of work that we 're going to do in the lesson next week is going to be quite difficult . |