Example sentences of "not [adv] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The Ranger series of spacecraft for impacting the Moon were not entirely a success story ; but the soft landing Surveyors , which followed them , were . |
2 | First , apart from certain transitional arrangements you will need an approved degree ( not necessarily a law degree , though that gives you the advantage of providing you with examination exemptions ) . |
3 | Another summer show in Saltburn is under way too , not necessarily a Shakespeare play but ‘ another popular outdoor piece ’ as Ramsay puts it . |
4 | A simple distinction between data protection and ‘ privacy ’ concerns the use of inaccurate or incomplete information when decision-making , although within the proper scope of data protection , is not necessarily a privacy issue ( Lindop Report 1978 : para.2.03 ) . |
5 | Tobermory was not only a trading centre but an administrative ‘ capital ’ . |
6 | I learned that the Manitoba Racing Commission had moreover by midafternoon given each of them not only a champagne reception and a splendid lunch but also , as a memento , a framed group photograph of all the owners on the trip . |
7 | You can win not only a Megadrive 16-bit computer console ( exquisitely styled to produce faster and smoother games playing scenarios and requiring greater levels of skill and dexterity , it sez here ) but also a brand new Michael Jackson game to go with it . |
8 | It contains not only a Rope Museum and Blacksmith 's Shop but a working watermill too . |
9 | The versatile Starter Kit contains not only a 50ft Soakerhose , but also 10ft of garden hose , and a set of hose couplings , plus a flow control regulator and a 16-page instruction manual . |
10 | Not only a household name , now it was a household face with household heart as well . |
11 | Telephone Frank turns out to be not only a money expert , or an expert on not having any . |
12 | In a society constructing socialism an architect is not only a building engineer and a street engineer , but also an engineer of human souls . ’ |
13 | The unions want not only a pay rise but a proper pay mechanism for the future , and that 's where the talks could still fail . |
14 | In addition to this , he has crossed the border gaining not only a ZPT qualification , ( see Appendix 1 ) , but also SchH III . |
15 | It is not only a colour variety but also a more milky strain of the breed and there have been dairy herds of the beloved ‘ Belties ’ , though they would be better described as dual-purpose cattle . |
16 | In the first place , there was not only a sex difference but a gap of glaring dimensions politically , socially and even of age , between those who promoted the introduction of women to printing and those who opposed it . |
17 | For Mrs walker , that periosd was not only a worryiong time but a costly one . |
18 | At Twickenham , he is going to have to play a full part in a Scottish back-row who — which has not been the case for some years — will be having to cope with , in Dewi Morris and Stuart Barnes , not only a breaking scrum-half , but a running stand-off who attacks the gain-line . |
19 | The definitionalist might seek to save his position by arguing for a general principle of law to the effect that to intend an act is to intend it under a full description and that therefore in all crimes where the actus reus contains not only a conduct element but also circumstances and consequences , mens rea is to be taken as being ‘ coextensive with the actus reus . ’ |
20 | The taxpayer received not only a capital sum when the companies were sold but now also receives a substantial annual dividend . |
21 | The palace contained one of Bohemia 's finest picture collections and here was not only a picture gallery , but also a collection of graphics , a most important library , and a collection of sculpture put together by Count Jan Hertvík Nostic in the 17C . |
22 | One could build not only a railway terminal there , but the fifth London airport and no one would notice . |
23 | Not only a trade union , it also offered protection to those released from bonded labour , to the slumdwellers of Raipur , child labourers , farmers , women deserted or abused for the sake of dowry . |
24 | Mr Justice Douglas Brown said that the defendants were negligent ( 1 ) in failing to appreciate that they were dealing with a husband of substantial means who might well be able to afford to pay , not only a lump sum , but also substantial periodical payments ; ( 2 ) in failing to obtain full disclosure of the husband 's financial affairs ; ( 3 ) in failing to realise that because of family trusts and wills the husband had an expectation of further assets ; ( 4 ) in advising the wife to obtain a mortgage when she had no taxable income ; ( 5 ) in recommending a settlement which removed the wife 's undoubted right to maintenance ; and ( 6 ) in failing to use ouster proceedings to remove the husband from the matrimonial home . |
25 | And this was not only a Cambridge graduate but a Cambridge resident . |
26 | The Conwy Castle Information Centre includes not only a tourist information centre but a shop selling a wide range of quality gifts and publications together with an exhibition on Edward I and his castles in Wales . |
27 | This is a movement which has grown in the only way that alliances can , from the bottom up ; it is not merely a discussion group , but a real movement engaged in real debate . |
28 | The priest in Israel was not merely a temple functionary , a master and manipulator of sacred ritual by which the people 's offerings and worship were duly performed . |
29 | It is then possible show that the hypersurface is not merely a coordinate singularity , but is actually a singularity of space-time in the sense that there does not exist a C 1 extension from region II to this surface . |
30 | One has to acknowledge that homelessness is not merely a housing problem but is also a social problem , which requires not merely money but an approach to discourage and prevent young people from becoming homeless . |