Example sentences of "not [adv] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sterling eurobonds , which are a part of the international eurobond market described in Chapter 5 below , are normally issued as bearer securities and are usually unsecured but with a negative pledge ; they are listed on an exchange but not necessarily the London Stock Exchange and they pay interest gross .
2 After that it will be time for some home improvements , but not necessarily the DIY kind .
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4 It has also been pointed out by Kendall ( 1975 ) that the original 1936 legislation on union rights within the enterprise gave the ‘ most representative ’ unions in the plant the right to bargain , which was not necessarily the majority union .
5 ( Under the German system a party 's candidate for Chancellor is not necessarily the party chairman . )
6 The guidance recognises that if an accountant ( not necessarily the reporting accountant ) is already involved in the management of a trust , and if trust accounts are prepared annually , then that may influence whether or not a test is done on that trust .
7 And even in quite a wide area not perhaps the garden croquet players you would n't know about the people who play in the back garden but you know the people who play in tournaments .
8 Having seen and heard him at Buxton , I find it hard to believe claims that he did not solo the South Face of Lhotse : claims , in any case , which Cesen has countered with an explanation .
9 The assassin missed both ; not so the firing squad in the Mexican city of Querétaro where the dream of empire ended with the shooting of the Emperor Maximilian .
10 But not so the saw-fly larva and certain other specialist feeders , who possess the biochemistry to handle the toxic diet .
11 For this purpose , the exceptional includes not only the sense deviations we earlier called tropes ( 3.1C ) , but also the patterns or exceptional regularities of structure that we earlier called schemes .
12 Before the conservative country-offensive had become official policy they had flirted with French supporters of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy ( regarded by its Spanish admirers as a piece of thoroughgoing regalism ) , and had supplied a stock of ideas that were to govern , not only the church settlement made by the liberals in the Cortes of Cadiz , but the programme of liberalism until 1939 .
13 Ferry takes vo as including not only the Van der Waals ' radii but also the volume associated with vibrational motion .
14 They and their publicity men realised acres of news space dedicated to the couple would promote not only the TV series but also their own newspapers , and photographers trailed the two stars everywhere during 1988 , at the height of the show 's popularity .
15 The conversion took place of the old Vestry Hall on the corner of Heathfield Terrace and Sutton Court Road , at the beginning of the twentieth century , for the new Urban District Council of Chiswick , the building included not only the Council Chamber and offices and a large Town Hall , but also another Hall named after Hogarth , whose bust is still displayed in the Entrance vestibule .
16 It is not only the United States that has become dependent on imports of oil .
17 If one accepts this , even if only for the present and not as an inevitable fact for the future , then a responsibility lies with hearing society to meet not only the communication requirements of deaf people but also to understand and be able to work with this group in their language .
18 The answer was ‘ no ’ , roughly speaking , unless one knew not only the machine code but , most importantly , what the highest level language in question was , and the one from which the binary code had been obtained when the program ran .
19 Not only the Headingley crowd would testify to this ; Lillee , Thomson and their friends saw him reach his century from 71 balls against them in 1975–6 , and go on to his highest Test score of 169 .
20 Not only the capital cost of such an appliance , but also its running expenses are recoverable .
21 For example , one of the most useful is to include not only the drive letter , but the current directory .
22 Colour does , however , make large spreadsheets much easier to understand , and the speed format utility controls not only the colour scheme , but the overall format of the spreadsheet .
23 Scipio Nasica was supposed to have almost prophesied not only the Gracchan agitation but also the Social War between Rome and her Italian allies .
24 Careful thought regarding suitable journals for advertisements , advertorials or articles may help to dissuade workers considering strike action , for example , while good on-going press relations can do much to fortify not only the publics image of a company but also reinforce the workers sense of pride in belonging to such an organisation .
25 An intricate watering system would eventually replace the army of Baluchistan gardeners who tended not only the road islands but the roundabouts and the young plantations of trees struggling for life under the condemnation of the sun .
26 The king married Philippa to Edmund Mortimer Earl of March in 1368 , and thus the earl came to possess not only the Mortimer family lands in the Welsh March which had been restored to his father in 1354 , but also the Clare lordship of Usk , the Clare lands in Dorset , Somerset and East Anglia , and the de Burgh earldom of Ulster .
27 It was widely rumoured that if the Sagawa Kyubin affair was to be fully revealed its scope would surpass not only the Kyowa scandal , but also the Recruit affair .
28 Each language module under WSP consists of not only the character tables , but also a dictionary , which WSP uses to improve recognition accuracy — see the How does OCR work box .
29 We must realise that , as a global company , our competition is not only the UK manufacturers .
30 To win the strike on their terms , the unionists would have to shut down not only the union mines , but also the non-union ones — at least in the East where the manpower was available to do it .
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