Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] and [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One profession can not successfully isolate and combat infection . |
| 2 | Of course we should not endlessly meddle and interfere with the electricity industry in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | We learn not only to give and receive love , but to become Love . |
| 4 | It will have a new independent statutory role , not only to inspect and produce reports , as now , but to advise and monitor the new system for schools with delegated budgets . |
| 5 | Do not only go and see them , but take them out or bring them home . |
| 6 | As tool users , we must not only sharpen and reshape our tools , but sometimes make special ones for particular projects . |
| 7 | A staggering 70 per cent of Britain 's waste comes from packaging alone — plastics , foils , paper and glass — used not only to protect and retain food quality , but also to enhance product appeal , to give them an image which will raise their perceived value . |
| 8 | Investigation will centre on the ability of firms not only to understand and react to the markets in which they operate but also to introduce and develop further new products and processes . |
| 9 | The barn owl can not only hear and locate noises , but can also detect whether they are made by mice or other prey . |
| 10 | As built , the original Time Rotor could not only rise and fall but rotate on its axis as well . |
| 11 | According to Bob Hunt , the ICI Chlor-Chemicals business must aim not only to maintain and enhance its competitive position in traditional high-tonnage products , but also to develop subsidiary businesses through a combination of increasing technical sophistication and aggressive international marketing . |
| 12 | They can not merely learn and keep maps in their head of the location of hives and sources of nectar , and recognize colours and patterns ; they can communicate such orientations , distances and directions to their colleagues by means of the famous ‘ waggle dance ’ . |
| 13 | This needs to be coupled with a physical form which does not easily clog and impede water flow . |
| 14 | They would walk in the dusk by the water , listening to the lapping of the tide against the boats , and there would be someone there , perhaps , whom she would understand , appeal to more than his usual friends , for she could do things like deal with electricity and mend things , and she had not always lived in England , that was interesting , and she did not just giggle and think about clothes , and he would find her a relief to talk to , this rather exceptional , different person , someone with imagination . |
| 15 | In mid-1990 a law was passed in Delaware that enabled banks incorporated there not just to underwrite and sell insurance , but also to conduct reinsurance business . |
| 16 | Yes , we do need to fight and I did make reference that we need not just to organize and cooperate with other public sector workers , but we actually need to build a campaign with the users of the services . |
| 17 | Why did we not just stop and camp ? |
| 18 | One way or another , you place your order , but the wise gardener does not just sit and wait for it to come . |
| 19 | Most authoritative commentators on British politics in the period between the Reform Acts , 1832 and 1867 did not just describe and explain our politics . |
| 20 | It is supposed that thoughts can not just come and go , but need a person to think them . |
| 21 | I believe that the revolution can not just come and go but must be permanent , and it is our duty to further it . |
| 22 | So , third , the purpose of the Council was not just to restate and defend past doctrines — for that a Council was not necessary — but to ‘ make a leap forward in doctrinal insight and the education of consciences in ever greater fidelity to authentic teaching . |
| 23 | In Act v , Scene v , of Jonson 's Volpone Mosca enters dressed as a gentleman ; it is a moment which might be seen to mark the arrival of the urban impostor , he or she who knows that mimicry and impersonation possess the potential not just to deceive and usurp , but also to subvert social differentiation and identity itself : |
| 24 | The state has to respond to various pressures which are contradictory and do not unequivocally maintain and support the capitalist process of accumulation . |
| 25 | Although some of the relations between the company and these other groups are contractual it is clear that the formal contractual relationship does not always define and protect all facets of the relationship . |
| 26 | If the tissue and organs can be altered to make them acceptable for transplant , who can guarantee that animal diseases will not also adapt and cross the genetic barrier ? |
| 27 | He is a ‘ movie ’ man ; and nothing does him greater credit than his energetic campaign to get Kodak to mend their stock , so that colour-films of the past do not automatically fade and turn green . |
| 28 | From this grew the notion that the pope had the power not simply to explain and interpret the law , but to make it , whether by word of mouth in councils or by letter . |
| 29 | ‘ You could not simply go and leave Ana . ’ |
| 30 | In a way this new fight against censorship is an opportunity not simply to defend and ensure intellectual freedom but to affirm that a profession does exist which essentially safeguards this freedom . |