Example sentences of "not [adv] [art] [adj] and " in BNC.

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1 Cash and carry 's : tend to offer a ‘ no-frills ’ service on a price basis although they are not necessarily the cheapest and to their prices must be added the cost of collection .
2 This provides not only a familiar and welcome face to people who have not been exposed to library services but also provides a medium of communication through the use of community languages .
3 On the three kilometres of pristine white beach at Beau Vallon is the Coral Strand , not only a comfortable and prestigious hotel , but also a popular meeting place — the Lalanier Beach Bar and Garden of Eden are both well-known beachside venues .
4 California in the 1960s was not only a big and important state , it was also a political forcing ground where developments were occurring in microcosm that would eventually take on national dimensions .
5 They suggest that the deterioration may be even greater than was apparent from our study as they found not only an appreciable and continuing decline in sperm concentration but also an increased percentage of morphologically abnormal and immotile sperm .
6 This being so , the experience of older people is not only an invaluable and irreplaceable source of history , it is an essential element of counselling empathy .
7 So it is not only the visible and active exercise of power that needs to be equalized , but also the possession of power , which , where it can not be redistributed , must at least be made accountable within the framework of democracy .
8 It is the juxtaposition between these three strands which will influence not only the industrial and geographical pattern and form of MNE activity ; but how it affects the international allocation of resource and the world economic welfare .
9 Those helped were not only the elderly and unwell but could include people like young mothers with toddlers .
10 What accounts for the complexity of the problem of evaluation is not only the economic and social costs involved themselves , but the interests , conflicting or in harmony , of those who pay the costs and those who reap the benefits .
11 I entirely agree that a successful outcome is important to not only the British and European economies but the economies of the developing world .
12 Once again the movies learnt that it was not only the wealthy and respectable who liked to think that they were being given the best .
13 Do remember that it is not only the signed and sealed contract that helps to concentrate people 's minds on their commitments .
14 For Assiter , fantasy is not just a harmless and essentially solitary activity in which everyone engages to a greater or lesser extent , but is something which also has an effect on the way people behave towards others , and on the way they may feel they can justifiably treat each other , particularly women .
15 Nicola was not just a simpering and empty-headed blonde with a pleasant voice .
16 And this is not just a generalised and detached polemic against injustice by an educated man .
17 And I think this , you know , to have a classless society all these things have to be covered , not just the rich and poor , oh and getting rid of the monarchy .
18 What infuriated not just the British and Americans , but also France 's five EEC partners was the manner in which , without consultation , de Gaulle announced a fait accompli " as though France were somehow the custodian of the Community 's purity " .
19 So you jumped at the chance , but it is , I think th th poverty wage in Europe is it not , not about a hundred and forty , a hundred and forty five pounds ?
20 This is not simply an incautious and unconsidered statement by Mr Baldwin , a slip of the tongue : it is the settled and deliberate policy of the governing class , who have entered upon a course of action which has for its object the deliberate intensification of unemployment as a method of forcing down wages .
21 It was not simply the well-rehearsed and deeply felt arguments for and against abolition which exercised and divided its members , but the proper role of the Government on what was seen as a question of conscience .
22 In summary , the Pacific is not simply the biggest and the deepest quarter of the world ocean .
23 But for one other person , perhaps , Isambard had cared in his time , before affection changed to anger and hate ; and not even the last and holiest stone cell of all had kept Master Harry safe from his insatiable enmity .
24 Those dramatic figures reflect several things , not least the steady and progressive reform that the Government have undertaken in industrial relations .
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