Example sentences of "not [adv] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so our callous EC cousins , who all have traditional dishes based on milk-fed lamb . |
| 2 | It affects not only our emotional well-being but our physical condition too . |
| 3 | My staff and I welcome the opportunity to sit down with local exporters and importers to offer not only our own expertise but to provide the link to the truly international help that is available . |
| 4 | The solar system contains not only our own planet , but also many other planets , at varying distances from the sun . |
| 5 | So much of our behaviour is irrational , and not only our unpleasant behaviour . |
| 6 | Not only our skeletal muscles but the heart muscle also tends to degenerate if we do not get sufficient exercise , and this can lead eventually to heart failure . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the opinion poll improvement in the past few weeks reflects not only our excellent policy range but the fact that the election is getting closer and the best is yet to come ? |
| 8 | The point is that a " pluralistic " inference is based on the assumption that such relations depict an objective order of things " out there " , not merely our own impression of such an order , and this is precisely where the main difficulty lies . |
| 9 | Throughout history you come across stacks of politicians who would rather let any number of people suffer than admit to one lousy mistake of their own — they 're in all parties , not just our current lot . ’ |
| 10 | We are unfree , not when our strongest desire is displaced by an even stronger one , but when it is thwarted by external circumstances and becomes impossible of realization . |