Example sentences of "they [verb] [not/n't] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study by Butler and his associates is the most important in this area because they found not only that health visiting favoured no one class but also when a more sensitive analysis of the data was made that took account of over-crowding , house amenities , parental education , as well as father 's occupation , they found that the lower socio-economic groups received more health visiting . |
| 2 | They showed not only that for most elderly people the costs of community care were considerably lower than those of institutional care ( and that home care would therefore remain cost-effective for many even if service provision were greatly increased , when the alternative was admission to an institution ) , but also that community care was not necessarily cheaper , and that there were some elderly people for whom institutional care would be less expensive ( though not necessarily to be advocated solely on that account ) . |
| 3 | When people kiss , they exchange not only these secretions in their saliva , but also sebum , which is produced by glands around the mouth after puberty . |
| 4 | ‘ Soon they feel not only that what they did was bad , but that they are intrinsically bad , too . |
| 5 | They did not even all know each other , unlike a herd of cows , a coop of chickens , or a pen of pigs in communal mud . |
| 6 | They did not so much as consider that their physical safety could be at risk . |
| 7 | They offer not only all the finest portfolio available but also accurate advice and help . |
| 8 | They do n't very much anyway do they ? |
| 9 | However , they do n't actually all do the same job . |
| 10 | you can tell them off and then this , they do n't , they do n't so many things then |
| 11 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 12 | Or rather , they do not so much dance as cling to one another , rocking drunkenly with the tide . |
| 13 | Many now happily experienced that Christian fellowship of which they had not so much as an idea before . |
| 14 | They had not very much time . |