Example sentences of "not [adv] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conquest brought not only soldiers to Latin America but also priests and missionaries , for the christianising mission of the Spaniards and Portuguese was vital to their cause . |
| 2 | In adopting a broad search formulation strategy to access the library catalogue , the searcher not only attempts to " match " the system 's language but also places his expressed need in a broader context . |
| 3 | More than 68,000 persons were killed and more than 2 million injured on British roads in the 10 years prior to the outbreak of war , but Tripp was able to advocate not just improvements to major roads as one way of reducing the number of fatalities and accidents , but complete road systems . |
| 4 | We must demonstrate that poverty , unemployment , low pay and low skills are not just barriers to individual opportunity , but that they undermine the capacity for wealth creation . |
| 5 | It is also subject to all kinds of criticism ; not just listeners to Radio Four , but the employers of graduates speak disapprovingly of the way the English language is spoken . |
| 6 | Good doctors aim to add life to your years , not just years to your life . |
| 7 | The imaginary conversations he held as he travelled the country roads were not simply distractions to while away his lonely journeys but rehearsals of the arguments he would use to outsmart the hunters and send them back home empty-handed . |
| 8 | Through them I first learned ( as Leslie learned in the army ) that bathrooms and books were not then things to be taken for granted — that reading was not an instinct like breathing and eating , but a skill sometimes painfully acquired . |
| 9 | Out of bewilderment at such diversity of views and the need to promote some level of harmony between them , the view has been quite widespread that differences are entirely due to cultural context and are not therefore contradictions to be resolved . |