Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price is what the seller hopes to get , and not necessarily w hat he expects . |
| 2 | It came to focus on a headhunting approach to find this talent , not necessarily people who had gone to the right schools and universities . |
| 3 | Spectators were also treated to a display of sheepdog skills which saw & names , put their crafty canine sue through her paces , rounding up not only sheep but a few noisy geese as well . |
| 4 | The King placed before him not only works of Wagenseil , but those of [ Johann Christian ] Bach , Abel and Handel and he played off everything prima vista … |
| 5 | And not only infantry ; several hundred Cossacks , and two squadrons of the St. Petersburg Dragoons . |
| 6 | On the other hand , Linnaeus , who had visited Chelsea a few months earlier , came in for severe criticism : ‘ … he has demolished not only Species but Genus without the least reason for so doing but that of having his method establish 'd and made universal , which I venture to affirm will be of very short duration ’ . |
| 7 | It is not only species of animal that die out , but whole species of feeling . |
| 8 | Almost all the food is grown at camp ; they bake their own bread and the food is not only 100% nutritious but very delicious . |
| 9 | But it is not only trout that I have caught at Coldingham . |
| 10 | The College was woefully under-staffed ; the preparation of a worthy volume of transactions would require not only staff to do the work that would be reported , but also staff to write up the material . |
| 11 | The system manages not only data about maintenance crews and equipment , but also rules that specify how long crews can work , which stations can be taken off-line without blacking out the city , and so on . |
| 12 | It means that there are not only data and/or information used the problem-solving process but expertise ( knowledge + experience ) and reasoning as well . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Whether old or new , these undesirable buildings were always overcrowded , housing not only people , but animals as well . |
| 15 | In those cases where not only people , but the actual aeroplanes , boats or ships themselves actually disappeared from the face of the earth . |
| 16 | Just as AIDS can affect not only people 's health but the whole social and economic infrastructure of a country , so too it requires a holistic response when trying to deal with it . |
| 17 | he frees himself , with the help of Clarisse , from the confinements of a society which restricts not only people 's actions but their minds and emotions as well . |
| 18 | These break away in storms and drift , catching not only fish but trapping and drowning seals , dolphins and other mammals . |
| 19 | Held , dismissing the action , that a release by accord and satisfaction of one covenantor operated as a release of all other covenantors undertaking the same obligation ; that the landlord 's acceptance of the immediate surrender of the lease and the goods listed in satisfaction for releasing M. from all his liabilities under the lease was clearly a release by accord and satisfaction ; that there were no words of reservation or circumstances rebutting that construction ; and that the landlord had therefore released not merely M. but also the defendant company , as an intermediate assignee who had undertaken the same obligation ( post , pp. 483B–H , 484C ) . |
| 20 | But as any New York schoolboy will tell you , Broadway is not merely half-a-mile of down-at-heel glitz . |
| 21 | ‘ It is not just statistics that are involved , it is also research and information generally , ’ he said . |
| 22 | This is not just species vanity . |
| 23 | It 's not just 65p a week — it 's an adventure |
| 24 | Not just sales , so it should n't just be the appointments in your diary , and a lot of you will not used to be keeping a diary as well . |
| 25 | The organisers would like to address the view that the infected are ‘ victims ’ , not just people living with the disease : ‘ A negative input only serves to make them feel they 're under a death sentence . ’ |
| 26 | Engineers were not just people who got their hands dirty mending cars ! |
| 27 | And issues that also affected people in the surrounding streets , not just people in the flats themselves . |
| 28 | Supplicius of Amboise 's refusal to assist Fulk le Réchin in the field , because Fulk 's enemy was Thibaud of Blois to whom Supplicius had also paid homage , proved that the task was not always straightforward.i On the other hand , William the Conqueror was well supported against the royal invasions after 1051 . |
| 29 | The problems of big business are not about Percent for Art , they 're about your Government 's interest rate policies , about unemployment , so do n't come crying crocodile tears for big business . |
| 30 | But they 're not really people , are they ? |