Example sentences of "[prep] not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I had anticipated , he gave his kind permission after not too great a delay , and furthermore , Mr Farraday was good enough to remember and reiterate his generous offer to ‘ foot the bill for the gas ’ . |
| 2 | one of the nicest things that happened to me since I 've been widowed is having Neil to look after not only is he an exception |
| 3 | I was reading an article only in the last couple of days where it was talking about not particularly tourism , it was talking about a business that was in difficulty , and it said , you know , do you actually make people redundant , you do you stop advertising and you know the bottom line is you 've got to keep advertising because if you do n't tell people you 're there nobody 's going to come and buy your product , whatever it is , and you 're going to disappear anyway . |
| 4 | As far as I can tell , we have some sort of unspoken agreement that I keep quiet about not officially existing in return for being able to do more or less as I like on the island and buy more or less what I like in the town . |
| 5 | Colleges need to earn the trust of their partners by giving clear , unbiased advice about not only what is on offer at the college , but about the pros and cons of other options such as work or Youth Training . |
| 6 | Whether your students are planning to attend holiday courses in Britain , or are merely curious about the lifestyle , customs , and civilization of the British , When in Britain is designed to encourage them to think about not only the British way of life , but also about their own . |
| 7 | Imagine now communication I 'm talking about not only through letter and telephone I 'm talking about total communication . |
| 8 | " … appreciated what you have said about not really meaning to offend anybody , I just ca n't square this version of accounts with that of your workmates , Steve , who insist , I 'm afraid , that you seemed quite serious about back-filling the canal with the tarmac allocated for laying on Colebrook … ah … |
| 9 | And I suppose you are now going to spurt some rubbish about not possibly being able to marry someone who 's wealthy ? ’ |
| 10 | The libertarian view is still barely acknowledged by Soviet historians and is treated by most western historians as not wholly academically respectable . |
| 11 | But , throughout it all we see Jesus as not just a teacher , he must be more than that . |
| 12 | but come as not surprisingly I assume you have read the relevant brochures |
| 13 | In many cases , the state of destination will either accept the classification of the state of origin , or waive any right it may have to reject the document under Article 4 , or simply serve the document as an act of goodwill even if the Convention is regarded as not strictly applicable . |
| 14 | A short way out of Pau on the opposite side to Lescar , to the north-east , is Morlaas , a small town that tends to get left out of the local guidebooks as not somehow belonging to the Pyrenees . |
| 15 | He notes that Mackie compares values to colours , and describes both as things which are normally thought of as existing independently ( and which conceivably might have done so ) but which a reasonable scientific view of the world exhibits as not really there . |
| 16 | It has certainly been quite often the case , in practice , that spokespersons for the majority have tried to portray the minority who oppose as not really being part of " the people " at all . |
| 17 | ‘ Manufacturing is seen as not quite an acceptable career for educated people . |
| 18 | Najma 's family tried to talk her out of a singing career as not quite suitable for a good Muslim girl , but she persevered and in 1984 won Britain 's Asian song contest on her first public appearance . |
| 19 | Then Guido said , ‘ But somehting strikes me as not quite right . |
| 20 | For in fact I , as I said I 'm glad you made that point , it does press upon the er people in Bedford yesterday , in as not as well as that , that there 's , there 's point in that er , there was some |
| 21 | The late-night satirical shows such as Not So Much a Programme , More a Way of Life and That Was the Week That Was ( TW3 ) were among the first to cause the NVALA concern . |
| 22 | Vial 's scanty publications have been analysed at length by Smith , who pronounced : ‘ In summing up Vial 's practical knowledge one is compelled to estimate it as not very wide . |
| 23 | Cases range from the severely handicapped person who may be physically helpless and incapable of coherent speech , to the highly acceptable , responsible person , earning a living , looking after themselves , obtaining considerable enjoyment from life and from relationships but generally regarded as not very bright . |
| 24 | It is precisely because our Lord suffered these things that we recognise him as not only God but human , like us . |
| 25 | It is in this context that we must understand the reception of syncopated dance music in the early 1900s , of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s , and of punk in the late 1970s , as not only new but unnatural . |
| 26 | Pliny named the plant Euphorosinum because it was thought to bring happiness and joy , and the Greeks and Romans both regarded it as not only a comforting plant , but also a supplier of courage . |
| 27 | Both states were regarded as not only undesirable but criminal : after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 , police prosecutions against homosexuals reached a peak in 1953/4 , while the scare headlines accorded by the press to the Clapham Common murder in the summer of 1953 lodged in the public 's heads the equation that people who wore Edwardian clothes would knife you at the drop of a hat . |
| 28 | The recent development of a ‘ political economy of culture ’ ( see Schiller [ 1969 ] , Murdock and Golding [ 1974 , Garnham [ 1977 ] ) is especially necessary and welcome , and should be seen as not only distinct from , but complementary to , a cultural sociology . |
| 29 | Radar and sonar were still highly classified developments in military technology , and the notion that bats might do anything even remotely analogous to the latest triumphs of electronic engineering struck most people as not only implausible but emotionally repugnant . |
| 30 | He said this , in the thirty years that have passed since the previous Police Act became law , the old tripartite structure which consisted police authorities , chief constables and the Home Secretary , has provided an effective police service which can still truthfully be described as not only the best in the world , but also the envy of the world . |