Example sentences of "not [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price is what the seller hopes to get , and not necessarily w hat he expects . |
| 2 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |
| 3 | Biodegradability is not necessarily environment friendly ! |
| 4 | Not so CND house designer John Parke , who produced the anti warmongers ' new hallmark . |
| 5 | Not so Sandra Deacon and Claire Gray , who launched Deacon Gray on 1 August last year , three months before the birth of Claire 's second baby . |
| 6 | A policy which will consider not only air pollution , but problems such as energy efficiency , safety , noise , the implication of different systems of transport on cities and the countryside and ultimately society at large , to establish which are the most environmentally sound and economically efficient methods of moving from A to B for the sake of both humans and the planet . |
| 7 | However , it was not only household cutlery that fell under his all-powerful , all-twisting spell . |
| 8 | Doubtless Tom was being specially vigilant those nights as his father , James , was not only Company Secretary at that time , but also Chief Air Raid Warden for the area . |
| 9 | More recently the relative stability of the EMS currencies ( including the more vulnerable Italian lira ) has been a result of not only exchange rate intervention by Community central banks but also coordinated interest rate adjustments under the September 1987 agreement , intended to strengthen the operational mechanisms of the system . |
| 10 | These are included in relation only to limited classes of investments , which , however , cover not only money market investments but also debt investments ; it is therefore likely that futures contracts linked to debt securities are included , even if they fall outside the money market exemption ( because the transaction is too small or the debt securities have too long a maturity ) ; and ( 6 ) Countries , monetary authorities or certain supranational institutions . |
| 11 | The broader approach that we advocated covers not only sentence structure but also larger patterns of organisation , not only the forms of written academic English but also a range of stylistic and dialectal varieties , not only language structure but also meaning and use . |
| 12 | The law has treated not only Rodney King with no respect , but also the people with no respect . |
| 13 | Heliskiing in Russia — not only helicopter skiing but also a glimpse of the USSR . |
| 14 | The logistics of his complicated destiny involved not only Skunk Kilo , anchored by its FBI crew in international waters , but the USS Butte , a Navy ammunitions ship that had been shadowing the yacht by radar , the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga , standing by with a Navy S-3 jet and an escort of two F-14 Phantoms to fly him to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington , D.C. , two KC-10 tanker aircraft to refuel the S-3 on the way , and 15 carloads of FBI agents to meet him on arrival . |
| 15 | With almost every resource in short supply , the management of the war economy required not only government control but complex and intricate planning of requirements and allocation . |
| 16 | In addition , these changes in the law not only concern property stolen within Holland but also property which was stolen elsewhere in the world and arrived in the country during the twenty year period . |
| 17 | In contrast , the Spanish Romanesque is rougher , more austere , more solemn than not only Mohammedan architecture but also Romanesque work from elsewhere in Europe . |
| 18 | It is not only computer technology that is altering , but the whole nature of the industry . |
| 19 | The hardware manufacturers themselves offer not only systems software , which comprises the most basic sets of instructions that make computers operate and with which users are normally powerless to interfere . |
| 20 | In Australia the scope of the national energy conservation programme has been broadened to include not only petrol saving but the conservation of all forms of energy . |
| 21 | The draftsman should consider not only window glass , but also window frames , window sills , mastic joints , soffits . |
| 22 | Cells can influence not only integrin expression but under specific circumstances may ‘ activate ’ previously inactive integrins by exposing the ligand binding region through a molecular switch mechanism associated with a conformational change in the integrin molecule itself . |
| 23 | ‘ We believe the very successful start to the year is the result of not only quality service , but also an extensive advertising and competitive promotional pricing policy . |
| 24 | Gandhi 's quest for Truth or God involves not only bhakti yoga , that is the discipline of prayer and devotion , but also karma yoga , that is , the discipline of action . |
| 25 | The broader approach that we advocated covers not only sentence structure but also larger patterns of organisation , not only the forms of written academic English but also a range of stylistic and dialectal varieties , not only language structure but also meaning and use . |
| 26 | Other governments have viewed the spontaneous housing settlements as wretched areas , which not only house society 's drop-outs , but are also breeding grounds for crime and radical political activity The Brazilian government has tried to eradicate the squatter settlements for these reasons , which is especially the case in Rio de Janeiro , because of the added factor that it is an international tourist centre and the favelas are so visible on the steep hillsides behind the luxury hotels and beaches . |
| 27 | In the German schemes , it was hoped to improve not only traffic safety , but also environmental quality , conditions for walkers and cyclists and recreational opportunities . |
| 28 | Profitable mass production necessitated not only employer control over the planning and organisation of work , but also reliable , attentive and loyal workers to perform it . |
| 29 | It will be better understood if this conceptual paper is read against the reports on how this programme is being put into practice in several projects in different parts of the world and being implemented in colloquia and workshops , position papers and formal statements and declarations , in a publication programme consisting of academic studies and more popular magazines and newsletters , not only Media Development , Action and Communication Resource , but also books and periodicals published in different regions . |
| 30 | Continuing with our high profile er lunches , there was another objective , objective , overall objective of raising the profile of the office and finally , within that heading our action point was that er we would look at partner representation on various various bodies , not only partner representation , senior staff representation on various bodies . |