Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Stanley Baldwin was sent to Hawtrey 's , near Slough , which was almost exclusively an Eton preparatory school , although there followed a not wholly explained change of plan and he went to Harrow in 1881 . |
| 2 | Whilst most commentators are agreed that the Children Act 1989 is in the main a good Act , all of them , all of them Councillor are critical of the fact that the Government has not properly provided Local Authorities with sufficient resources to implement the Act . |
| 3 | They have not properly read appendix A in their own report . |
| 4 | I had once taken hold of a piece of rock , and was about to trust my whole weight upon , it , when it loosened from its bed , and I should have been sent headlong to the bottom had I not instinctively snatched hold of a tuft of grass , which grew close by it , and was so firm as to save me . |
| 5 | The events of 1470/1 had not entirely destroyed Edward IV 's authority in the north . |
| 6 | The events of 1470/1 had not entirely destroyed Edward IV 's authority in the north . |
| 7 | Would Stephen ever discover that Timothy Gedge had not entirely told lies ? |
| 8 | How glad I am , she thought simply , that I have not suddenly contracted syphilis . |
| 9 | I fear that this has not necessarily taken place in every case . |
| 10 | Very soft water is not suitable , as there is not enough dissolved calcium carbonate , the main material of the shell . |
| 11 | The Girls were not highly trained dancers and were frankly terrified of him . |
| 12 | This new development has not only alarmed WACC but also such professional organisations as the International Association for Mass Communication Research ( IAMCR ) , the MacBride Roundtable and many regional bodies concerned with a ‘ new order ’ . |
| 13 | This pernicious combination of rising inflation and rising unemployment , usually referred to as ‘ stagflation ’ , not only led economists to abandon the simple Phillips curve as a tool for modelling an inflationary process . |
| 14 | However , Ancient Society also differed from earlier work because of the high quality of the scholarly work on which it was based , because of the sympathy of the writer for primitives , and because it not only defined stages but in many cases suggested mechanisms which explained why one stage should change to another . |
| 15 | By 1914 Japan had not only achieved revision of the unequal treaties , but also alliance with Britain and the beginnings of an empire . |
| 16 | Robert Naish was surely surprised at the apparent ease with which he not only achieved support but in so doing effectively acquired the Committee 's crucial agreement to buy out the bondholders ! |
| 17 | Since the war , every spell of Anfield success has been set or kept in motion by the signing of a top-class ‘ striker-cum-provider ’ a player who not only scored goals but also made them for his colleagues . |
| 18 | Five years ago DIP entered its second phase , thanks to the development of software that not only handled image storage and retrieval but actively managed the routing and movement of images around an organisation . |
| 19 | Then come the children for whom the nightly forage produces not only improvised toys but anything which can conceivably be sold to raise a bit of cash . |
| 20 | In the rural areas , lack of access to land , drought ( which has not only destroyed crops but has meant that impoverished people have had to sell their livestock and have even been forced off the land by hardship ) , and rising prices have further marginalized poor rural dwellers . |
| 21 | Eugenists not only opposed charity to the poor , but also favoured child allowances to the better-off to encourage the breeding of superior specimens . |
| 22 | Many more recent innovations in costume have led to today 's all-over leotard and tights which has not only given dancers complete freedom of movement but has given choreographers freedom to design as they will without constricting rules and conventions . |
| 23 | MacGregor , who remains passionate about sport and whose father had played football for Glasgow 's Queen 's Park , not only played rugby but spent his afternoon off playing soccer . |
| 24 | Bayezid II was won over by Mueyyedzade 's arguments and not only appointed Kemalpasazade to the Taslik medrese but also charged him with writing a history of the Ottoman dynasty in Turkish to serve as a companion piece to that being written in Persian by Idris Bitlisi |
| 25 | As Duchess of Aquitaine she had inherited the ducal claim to Toulouse , but at Limoges Raymond had not only done homage to the Dukes of Aquitaine , he had also done homage to the Young King . |
| 26 | Spencerian analysis not only assigned women a narrow and subordinate role , but also stressed that this was necessary if human progress was to be sustained . |
| 27 | By pursuing her own method , Lisa not only gained control over her work but also showed her grasp of the nature of the problem and of the nature of multiplication . |
| 28 | By raising the question of the Holy Places the French President not only gained ground at home but also set in train a long-term policy . |
| 29 | It not only covered ships passing to and fro through the Strait , but also included reports of Argentine air strikes , naval activity , including the sinking of the Belgrano , and even references to the British helicopter that had landed on the coast of the Magellan Strait almost opposite Punta Arenas , and had been destroyed by its pilot . |
| 30 | G9 had not only secured Titron — it had also been a probe . |