Example sentences of "not [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so with the GR-1 ; all of us here have sat and played it and no-one has had too much difficulty adjusting to the GR 's demands in a very short space of time . |
| 2 | Yet , while the traditional working class had little prospect of improving their economic and social opportunities , this was not so for the two and a half million or so families whose income varied between £2 and £4 per week . |
| 3 | There are many differences between these two bodies , but a detailed comparative study could be useful not only for the two areas involved but also for the southern European countries about to join the EEC . |
| 4 | We provide a service not only for the six thousand odd people that are on the campus |
| 5 | There follow accounts not only of the four voyages of Christopher Columbus but of the life of Cortez and conquest of Mexico , followed by specialised essays on the peoples and art of Mexico , Central America , Peru and Amazonia , with particular emphasis on the art of the island of Marajo at the mouth of the Amazon , in which the Barbier-Mueller Museum holdings are particularly rich . |
| 6 | It is likely to have a very wide readership — made up not only of the 500 or so Open University students following the course each year , but also the many women embarking one of the women 's studies courses now on offer in Britain and Europe . |
| 7 | Would it be worth your while to consider sending for the chairman not only of the 1922 committee but also of the parliamentary Labour party so that the leaders of the respective parties in Parliament can discuss with you the conduct last night ? |
| 8 | The appellate jurisdiction of the Paris Parlement not only over the three dioceses of Limoges , Càhors and Périgueux , but the whole of the duchy , meant that a constant ducal presence at Paris was necessary . |
| 9 | It struck me as a trivial , but irritating error ; the dust-pan would have been conspicuous not only from the five ground-floor doorways opening on to the hall , but also from the staircase and the first-floor balconies . |
| 10 | He had been asked to serve not only by the four remaining directors , but also by the three directors who were unseated at an extraordinary general meeting last week . |
| 11 | He gave £50 million , which of course made an immense difference to life at the National Gallery , not only in the 1980s but for the future . |
| 12 | Effective implementation may depend upon co-operation not merely between the two ‘ levels ’ but also between different organizations at the same level ; |
| 13 | The most popular leaders ( Boris Yeltsin , Anatoly Sobchak , Gavriil Popov ) had ostentatiously left the party in 1990 or not long before the 1991 August coup ( as Eduard Shevardnadze , Alexander Yakovlev and Alexander Rutskoi had done ) . |
| 14 | It was not long before the two families were joined with ties other than zeal for their faith and a deep devotion to its outworking . |
| 15 | To their combined relief , it was not long before the two men arrived at the driveway and stepped cautiously out onto its surface . |
| 16 | If you fall out with someone in your own office or factory , the working atmosphere may become intolerable , not just for the two of you , but also for your colleagues . |
| 17 | When you begin to think about it you grow dizzy , your stomach turns over , not just at the commercialism of it all , but at the aestheticism of it all , not just at the chequebooks but at the Intelligent Conversations , not just at the fifty percent but at the Sensitive Responses , not just at the winks and nods but at the Hushed Silence in the Presence of Art . |
| 18 | It has been made clear from the outset that the Board 's remit extends over some 350 institutions ; in other words , it is concerned not just with the 90 or so establishments substantially engaged in public sector higher education that would have come within the aegis of the Green Paper 's Model B , but with virtually all those which make some provision for higher education . |
| 19 | There 's been advertising for years , not just since the fifties ; there was advertising in Victorian times ; newspapers and magazines , and pornography with drawings of women , and how men thought women should look , and the theatre and books all put out the same sorts of things — this is how a woman should be . |
| 20 | When the team trusts itself it builds up a view not simply about the one school and what needs to be done in small detail but also about the pressures and demands of society as a whole . |
| 21 | He recorded two albums in one , ‘ Survival ’ and ‘ Uprising ’ , he did not have any patience , not even with The I-Threes . |
| 22 | Right twenty Ah not quite on the twenty . |
| 23 | This is a fairly staggering claim , not least for the 200,000 odd people employed by an industry which has expanded to the point where Scotland is currently the second biggest financial centre in the EC . |
| 24 | And Goethe — although he retained his admiration for the Greeks , and not least for the three tragedians , right up to his death in 1832 — mostly looked in other directions for his inspiration after the unfinished drama Pandora of 1810 . |
| 25 | Despite their electoral alliance , the UDF and RPR remain divided on many points of policy , not least in the two key areas of Europe and the economy . |