Example sentences of "not [adv] [be] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only are primary schools in the neighbourhood competing for children but prep schools may also be attracting pupils out of the area too . |
| 2 | Not only are biblical accounts of supernatural visitations during dreams and dreams foretelling the future repeated without comment , even where ambiguity exists , the authors writing for children insert more accounts of dreams rather than asserting that visitations happened to people who were awake . |
| 3 | In March 1939 the CRREC claimed that ‘ Not only are Jewish children with no particular religious affiliation being placed in non Jewish homes and schools , utterly abandoned as far as their religious education is concerned , but even children who have been brought up in a religious atmosphere … are being callously placed in non Jewish schools and homes , where they suffer mental torture which , in at least one case , has brought the child to the verge of a nervous breakdown . ’ |
| 4 | Not only are these characteristics in stark contrast with the possibilities for ordinary adjectives , they can not hold for these inherently restrictive adjectives unchaperoned by an article : ( 28 ) second had roses on it Max owns best that has been discovered so far |
| 5 | Not only are these mosaics of great beauty and rich colour but they provide accurate data of the costume and appearance of Justinian 's period and illustrate the hieratic splendour of the Byzantine court . |
| 6 | They then realize that not only is this type of undecidability possible in Xorandor 's logic , but that it is also the founding condition of their binary systems . |
| 7 | Not only is this kind of personality-screening process likely to be chancy and unreliable , but — if change and initiative is the goal — downright counterproductive . |
| 8 | Not only were existing vacancies within the 104-seat chamber filled , but new seats were created so that by the end of September the unelected chamber 's membership had been expanded to 112 . |
| 9 | On the contrary , not only were some publications from each decade of the present century in need of attention , but a significant proportion of items from its first three decades proved defective , with 19% of items published between 1900 and 1909 showing the need for repair — a higher proportion than for any group other than 19th Century publications . |
| 10 | Not only were customary tenants in the West Country , for instance , powerless to resist rising fines , it is quite feasible that everywhere the land was , to a great extent , actually cultivated by leaseholders or tenants from year to year paying an economic rent . |
| 11 | Not only was this group on the increase but it embraced a complete cross section of society . |
| 12 | But life had not always been that way with Moby . |
| 13 | If the Secretary of State had regularly taken the governors ' advice about appointments , patronage might have been used to control the assemblies — some governors , notably in Massachusetts , were able to get their own way in their assemblies much more often in wartime and , while this was partly due to patriotism and partly due to fear of the French , it does appear that war contracts could build support in what had not always been promising soil for the governors . |
| 14 | Hunter Square can not possibly be this type of space — it has to generate activity as a result of life spilling into it from buildings around , rather like what happens in Covent Garden . |
| 15 | They can not possibly be any guide to potential theatre-goers . |
| 16 | There is the further consideration that universities may not indefinitely be secure havens for literary criticism , in the cold economic climate and rampant anti-intellectualism of Thatcherite Britain , and of many other parts of the world . |
| 17 | There has not yet been much debate about prices . |
| 18 | I feel that the subject of syllabic consonants is an area that we need to know more about , and that there has not yet been enough discussion of the problems found in their analysis . |
| 19 | However , there have not yet been any plans for positive management of these areas ( Blacksell and Gilg 1981 ) . |
| 20 | This was perhaps a conservative precaution on Franco 's part , and a reminder that , when it came to the nation 's purse-strings , there would not yet be any hint of relaxation or liberalism . |