Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this view , an object has not just a single history but all possible histories . |
| 2 | It contains not only a personal element but a property element . |
| 3 | This comprehensive kit contains not only a printed canvas , but also a full size coloured chart , wool card , detailed instructions and needles . |
| 4 | He holds not only a gutted Diamond-back but a pose ordained as well as caught by the photographer . |
| 5 | One method in particular , kriging ( now available as part of the UNIRAS software ) , offers not only a contoured surface but also an estimate of the standard error at any point on the map . |
| 6 | In some ways this boom is even more extraordinary , because it represents not only a new taste but a subtly different attitude towards works of art . |
| 7 | Sometimes at the Dispatch Box the Minister displays not just a cocky attitude — on occasions I could be accused of that myself — but almost an arrogant attitude . |
| 8 | The type of cultural intervention envisaged by the Committee involves not just a preaching mission , but also active cultural transformation of a kind which requires a certain degree of " love " , or a liberal and sympathetic attachment not only to " folk " cultures but even to urban industrial cultures : " The ambassadors of poetry must be humble , they must learn to call nothing common or unclean — not even the local dialect , the clatter of the factory , or the smoky pall of our industrial centres " ( 238/260 ) . |
| 9 | Tony Palmer 's The Children includes not only a wonderful performance by Kim Novak but a starring role for Ben Kingsley , and parts for Robert Stephens and Britt Ekland , and will doubtless appeal to our Festival audience . |
| 10 | The personification furnishes not only a necessary step on the way to judgments about particular people , but a plateau we can occupy to consider these judgments . |
| 11 | The fact that it is possible to make up an Irish champion in one week draws not only a high proportion of exhibitors from the north , but also many exhibitors from the UK who travel by ferry and aeroplane to take part in what is known as The Circuit . |
| 12 | And it means not only a leading role in Boro 's biggest game of the season , but also a showdown with close friend Gary Pallister . |
| 13 | But if Eliot in the poem has adopted the personality of a fertility god , this god is a peculiarly Prufrockian one in the sense that for all ‘ The constant flame shall keep me warm , ’ he remains not simply a minor divinity , neither being nor meant to be Prince Hamlet , but also , for all the lovers ' attentions , an impotent ghost , ‘ A bloodless shade among the shades/ Doing no good , but not much harm ’ . |
| 14 | Within the natural sciences there was little of that passionate and puzzled confrontation which occurs when there is a clash , not of different hypotheses , but of different ways of looking at the same problem , i.e. when one party proposes not merely a different answer , but one which the other party considers to be impermissible or ‘ unthinkable ’ . |
| 15 | This demonstrates not only a worrying return to the homophobia of earlier years , but an increasing desire on the part of central government to control the activities of locally elected government . |
| 16 | This demonstrates not only a continuing uncertainty about the precise objectives but also a change in emphasis away from the provision of courses towards other forms of dissemination , of which more will be said below . |