Example sentences of "not [adv] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the 1st May an odd selection of individuals , myself included , set out to travel not only South to Totnes Castle , but also back in time about 530 years . |
| 2 | It is not easy to survey the many areas in which there has been not only response to Dei Verbum , but also developments traceable to its influence , yet going far beyond what most of the Council 's members could have foreseen . |
| 3 | We may need to look , therefore , at adaptation in various ways , not only adjustment to general social norms but also to deviant and unorthodox sub-cultures as well as to self-aspirations and family wishes . |
| 4 | Many of the papers carried photographs of Dobson and Creed side by side , Dobson 's arm around Creed 's shoulder , as if Creed was not only heir to the business , but also a son . |
| 5 | John Paul 's pontificate may then appear as , in part , aberration , while a pluralist Catholic Christianity will be revealed as not only heir to the central religious tradition of the West , but as able to respond without losing its core identity to the needs both of a truly world Church and of the ongoing transformation of human consciousness and intellectual understanding . |
| 6 | Not only joy to the sheep that 's been rescued , but it brings joy in heaven . |
| 7 | ‘ Access ’ has been a key-word in the discussion of the handicapped in libraries , not only access to the building but also access to the materials and services and to the information , knowledge , and entertainment contained within those materials . |
| 8 | If they come up with a question maybe just find out what 's being it erm not just reaction to a particular behaviour , but asking them how the feeling , you know maybe pointing to the bit in their body that 's actually feeling butterflies or whatever and trying to help them to express the fears and , more importantly , to make them concrete in terms of play , drawing , or acting it out . |
| 9 | Mrs Burrows wrote warning her daughter that " women are not always kind to each other " . |
| 10 | It is not simply information to be taken at face value . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , the law is not particularly kind to the home-owner who finds himself the victim of a negligent surveyor ; in most cases he will not receive full compensation for his loss . |
| 12 | Californian sunshine was not particularly kind to the English complexion , and circumstances had evidently not treated Laura well . |
| 13 | The exclusive " Annie Thompson " design had only a small flap — that was adequate in normal circumstances — but near disaster in an emergency , when I could not even resort to the era of the " Flapper " in her cami-knickers , and go down one leg . |
| 14 | The attack was so sudden that Riven had not even time to be afraid . |
| 15 | Plainly there are different degrees of misbehaviour and the partners will not readily resort to the extreme sanction of expulsion , but it is in the interests of the firm that a tendency to depart from proper professional standards be investigated and warnings handed down at an early stage before serious harm is done . |
| 16 | We also hear , incidentally , that Dr Mowlam and Tory candidate Robert Goodwill shared the last waltz ( ‘ not quite cheek to cheek ’ says the gallant Goodwill ) at the Langbaurgh council 's chairman 's ball on Friday . |
| 17 | But she 'd already started to dissipate the beauty of her voice with various kinds of addiction — narcotics , alcohol and companions who were n't altogether kind to her — and the last ten years of her life ( she died in 1959 ) find the light , drifting delivery of the pre-war years shrivelling into the croak of a haggard ghost . |
| 18 | ‘ They do n't usually resort to such violence . |
| 19 | Making no attempt to disguise his anger at the Ulster decision John Hunter added : ‘ The fact that it was a blanket no , and that it was n't even person to person , made it all the more galling . ’ |