Example sentences of "not [adv] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer term , then , they will be becoming familiar , not only with learning from teachers but with learning with teachers : they will feel the full responsibility of sharing their experiences with others . |
| 2 | Certainly , water is used a great deal in settlements , not only for drinking by people and animals , but also for various crafts and simple industrial processes , and as a source of power . |
| 3 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 4 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 5 | They are not only worth preserving in themselves ; a watchful eye needs to be kept to ensure that some other piece of street furniture — say one of the new all-glass telephone boxes — is not crudely juxtaposed beside them . |
| 6 | So , having D'Arcy in the band has been an education , not only from playing with someone who 's obviously a girl , but seeing how people perceive that and seeing the kind of shit she takes because she 's a girl . |
| 7 | It is information which is vital to any councillor who is trying to go through the analysis of cost centre by cost centre of the expenditures of this council and as such it 's vital that this information is available to us not only by combing through all the relevant minutes and in er minutes of committees that have taken place but paraded together in one place for us all and members of the public to be able to get access to it . |
| 8 | The larvae of caddis flies cause extensive damage to the flowers , leaves and roots of aquatic plants , not only by feeding on them , but by gathering pieces which they mix with sand , sticks and other debris to create tiny protective shelters . |
| 9 | When John Major is invited to sign the treaty devised by Jacques Delors , he should not only by thinking about the likely effects on the British economy , but also about Eastern Europe 's moral claims on the existing members of the EC . |
| 10 | Open villages , on the other hand , were centres of the rural underworld — some of them notoriously so — and displayed their independence of squirearchal authority not only by engaging in petty criminal activity but by becoming centres of pre-political and political activity which opposed ‘ official ’ values and attitudes . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it is not certainly fictitious , for the paucity of English sources on the later years of Cnut 's reign makes their silence inconclusive , and Robert may have been moved not only by feeling for the æthelings and his apparent friendship for their sister Godgifu 's husband , Count Dreux of the Vexin , but also by memories of his rift with Cnut 's sister Estrith . |
| 12 | In 1285 in Norfolk they offended the church not only by sitting in church courts and gathering evidence there for indictments of the clergy but also by hearing cases of violence and defamation against the clergy and matrimonial and testamentary suits , all of which were traditionally matters for church courts . |
| 13 | I trust all parties in this house will unite , not only in believing in local government but in agreeing that local government should set and maintain the highest possible standards of conduct when spending the very substantial sums of money parliament votes to it . |
| 14 | That there should be about 400 woody species in a hectare of South American or Malaysian forest has led to problems not only in accounting for such diversity , the main subject of this chapter , but also in actually measuring the richness of such forests . |
| 15 | Finally , residential workers have an important part to play not only in standing by young people , but also in communicating with them about their experiences and in helping them to explain and discover meaning in their lives . |
| 16 | The help given in the first period of Addenbrookes , when the plaintiff had her own room and was for much of the time still in a coma , was clearly signifidant , significant , not only in caring for the plaintiff 's physical needs , but in giving the support and encouragement which no doubt contributed greatly to the plaintiff 's emergence from that coma . |
| 17 | He had also paid a substantial price for the pleasure , not merely of looking at the corpse of the idea of a centre party , but of stamping upon it several times over . |
| 18 | His words suggest that Twain 's book brought back Eliot 's childhood not merely by functioning as an aide-mémoire . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not satisfied with my works to date , and from now on I want to take a new path ’ , so Beethoven allegedly confessed not long before embarking on the three sonatas of Op. 31 , here introduced into the CD catalogue as a set played on a fortepiano ( by Derek Adlam after Anton Walter , Vienna ; Nannette Streicher , Vienna 1815 ) . |
| 20 | Retribution was not long in coming for the Partick side who , last Saturday , lost four goals for the second league game in succession . |
| 21 | For Lynda Hall , 43 , and her husband Alan , have just bought the 200-year-old Navigation Inn , at Buxworth , which actress Pat Phoenix , who played Elsie for 22 years , took over not long after going into the Street . |
| 22 | A proper budding knife will be required — a penknife is no good at all — which is like a planting trowel in that both ends are used and the handle is not just for holding in the hand . |
| 23 | Ensure that you have some physical exercise during the day — although not just before going to bed or your heart/pulse rate will increase and you will find sleeping even more difficult . |
| 24 | This involves trying to grasp Marx 's concept not solely by referring to previous conceptions of ideology but by relating it to his analysis of the mode of production . |
| 25 | The critical problem for Esperanto , as for any other artificial language , is that it is not really worth learning until a lot of already people speak it . |
| 26 | Now my concern is not really with trying to erm get outside people or people in universities to sort of be involved in evaluations necessarily , it 's with helping people within schools to acquire more skills in the area of evaluation , so that schools , whenever they feel it would be useful to them , have got enough professional expertise among their own members to be able to perhaps rather more the quality of their evaluation and to see that it gets put perhaps to rather more purpose . |
| 27 | I says that much , it 's the only that I 'm not really into going to discos and things , and she says and anyway |
| 28 | They have had to overcome many difficulties ; not least in trying to marry-up disparate computer systems . |
| 29 | They alighted on Saddam Hussein of Iraq , who in the late 1970s was beginning to portray himself as a man of moderation who might be able to make himself useful to the West , not least by acting as a counter to now-revolutionary Iran . |
| 30 | Finally , reverting to Labour , Greg Pope , the new non-apostolic Labour man for Catholic Accrington unseated the Catholic Tory , Ken Hargreaves , not least by appearing on the ballot as Pope Gregory . |