Example sentences of "not [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum 's anger and frustration was based , not entirely on the fact of the girl being a Gentile , but on the great expectations she had anticipated for the boy . |
| 2 | But Norman Lamont , the Chancellor , will insist this is normal procedure and any cuts are not necessarily on the scale of those mentioned in the guidelines . |
| 3 | I think this ought to be thrown out not necessarily on the rights or wrongs of fox hunting but on a procedural thing that you 've brought about where a dictatorial attitude is brought about by the Labour party that have the right apparently to say exactly what 'll happen on someone else 's land . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend the Minister must pay attention to the point that has been made — that time limits must be set for , first , appointing an inspector and secondly , the production of the inspector 's report once the inquiry is complete , if not necessarily on the length of the inquiry . |
| 5 | There is too much emphasis on the tasks ( agendas ) of managing and not enough on the processes ( networks ) . |
| 6 | Many prove to be misfits , too honest for their job , or not enough on the ball to cope with its demands . |
| 7 | That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP … |
| 8 | Where the words used by Parliament are obscure or ambiguous , the Parliamentary material may throw considerable light not only on the mischief which the Act was designed to remedy but also on the purpose of the legislation and its anticipated effect . |
| 9 | The continuing electoral hegemony of the Conservatives rested not only on the division of the anti-Tory vote between Labour and Liberals , but also on the fact that large numbers of manual and white-collar workers , benefiting from the rapid growth of new industries , services and housing in the Midlands and the South of England , felt that they had good reason to be grateful to the Government . |
| 10 | Leadership depends for its success not only on the knowledge , skills and personality of the leader , but also on the task to be achieved , the skills and motivation of the team , and the environment or situation in which the leader has to operate . |
| 11 | The decade had begun with the CNAA not only on the brink of some of the expansive changes we have discussed , but also in increasingly strong cross-currents of debate about validation and relationships . |
| 12 | I was already working as Derek 's apprentice carpet-fitter in my spare time — when I had any — but the wage I was getting was going not only on the birds ' upkeep but also on mine . |
| 13 | A subject 's performance on an experimental task may depend not only on the way which he encodes the stimuli but also on the strategy he adopts in carrying out the task . |
| 14 | The amount of erosion of any rock cliff will depend not only on the way in which the waves break against the cliff but also on the size of the waves . |
| 15 | The desire to travel — especially among the young and the well-educated — depends not only on the existence of a few Great Sights , but also on scenic variety , a sense that a particular place is different and , above all , old . |
| 16 | Denudation chronology also produced a number of debates which centred not only on the existence of surfaces of a particular number , which was not readily resolved by trend surface analysis , but also on the mode of development of planation surfaces and the significance of earth movement in influencing the denudation chronology . |
| 17 | This much should be clear after the Bundesbank under Pöhl was forced to accept Federal Government policy not only on the principle of German Monetary Union but also on the exchange rate , both of which it had initially resisted . |
| 18 | It must be that good musical form depends for its success not only on the principle of statement and change , but also on the proportions of one musical period in relation to another , and also to the whole of a movement , perhaps even to the whole of a multi-movement piece . |
| 19 | The ratio of locals to newcomers in the village today depends not only on the accessibility to nearby urban centres , but , now that most of lowland England has been subject to these changes , by the mixture of housing which each village contains . |
| 20 | The string spacing is far too narrow , not only on the fretboard but more especially with regard to the right hand . |
| 21 | The accuracy of a digital representation of a line depends not only on the ability of the person using the digitizer to follow the centre of the line on the map exactly but also on the number of points they input to describe the shape of the line ( Aldred 1972 ) . |
| 22 | Much depends not only on the ability of Britain 's domestic IT industry to provide customers with good products but on how other organisations respond to using the technology . |
| 23 | The stress is not only on the idea of progression ( from lower to higher ) but also on unbroken continuity . |
| 24 | Recent feminist work has focused not only on the continuum of male sexual violence , but also on the serial rapists and sex murderers . |
| 25 | This is not to say , however , that prevention is impossible , simply that preventive programmes need to concentrate not only on the removal or modification of isolated stresses , but also on the factors surrounding and responsible for such stresses , for these may be of equal or even greater importance in the development of later psychiatric disorders . |
| 26 | Boy did not throw these letters away ; he kept them all , and indeed read them not only on the day that they arrived but again and again during the week before the arrival of the next one , but he did not keep these letters in his box , and he did not reply to them either . |
| 27 | The central mountains of the island have a far-reaching natural effect not only on the lives of its human inhabitants but also on its flora and fauna . |
| 28 | Before he left he wrote to Routh suggesting that if some of the money now wasted utterly in relief works were instead put into interest-free loans to the Irish railways , a great deal of employment would follow , not only on the lines but in the trade they would stimulate . |
| 29 | The rise and fall of families depended not only on the circumstances in which people found themselves but upon individual character and temperament . |
| 30 | If seeing the object is then thought of , as required by Descartes 's concept of mind , as the mind being affected by it , that is , of there being an impression not only on the retina but also on the mind , then the obvious candidate for the impression on the mind will be something that corresponds to the image on the retina . |