Example sentences of "[adj] [not/n't] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ? |
| 2 | It does this not only in its narrative preoccupations ( active male protagonist , with woman as victim or sexual object ) but also — and crucially — in its conventions , in the way the camera moves and produces the image on the screen . |
| 3 | Even horses that are full brothers or sisters , and have been handled by the same people in the same conditions all their lives , can be very different not only in looks but also in personality . |
| 4 | It 's clear not just in his work , but also in his demeanour . |
| 5 | ‘ But I ask you to be Americans again , to be interested not just in getting but in giving … not just in looking out for yourselves , but in looking out for others . ’ |
| 6 | Customers were becoming much more discerning — interested not just in price , but quality of products . |
| 7 | Like Eliot , More had been interested not only in the classics and Christianity , but also in the East . |
| 8 | Chemists are interested not only in isolated and dissociating species but also in colliding molecules and their reactions . |
| 9 | Pericles , in the funeral speech attributed to him by Thucydides , was clear that a withdrawal by the citizen from public life into privacy was not acceptable : " Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well … we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business ; we say that he has no business here at all . " |
| 10 | Host countries are interested not only in how many jobs are created for how long at what cost , but also what kinds of jobs , are created . |
| 11 | Churchill himself was interested not only in this but also in the wider implications of nuclear developments in the 1950s . |
| 12 | Lowther was interested not merely in profits , but also in ways of solving some of the immense technological difficulties confronting coalmining in the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | What makes it possible to ask meaningfully in respect of a given existent not only in what way it qualitatively differs from any other type of existent , but what makes it numerically , existentially unique ? |
| 14 | It is hoped that this project will be innovative not only in the material resented and analysed , but as a contribution to new modes of scholarly publication . |
| 15 | The problem is that dependent development seems to be possible not only in the Third World but also in underprivileged areas within the hegemonic countries of the First World . |
| 16 | Notwithstanding this , if one has a taste for adventure and no fear of hard work , the rewards are ample not only in terms of a tax-free salary but in the satisfaction of a job well done in a challenging and interesting environment . |
| 17 | It is highly technical not just in the sense that it involves computer technology but also because it is totally based in the area of printing . |
| 18 | In the first place it is notably less rich not only in human resources ( for is n't education very much about people ) but even in things like straight lines , angles or congruent objects . |
| 19 | UNLU communiqués , however , were emphatic not only in their recognition of the PLO , but also that the PLO represented all Palestinian people , both outside and inside Palestine . |
| 20 | Support for the strike was virtually solid not only in old militant areas such as South Wales , Scotland , Yorkshire , and Kent , but also ( at first ) in traditionally moderate Lancashire , Durham , and Northumberland . |
| 21 | The commitment in time and effort of members and friends of St. A's and St.G 's os enormous , but the result can only be achieved nowadays because of the constant support from Saughton , and that not just in terms of physical strength . |
| 22 | The Conservatives have been a long way ahead of Labour not just in seats ( an arbitrary effect of the electoral system ) but also in votes . |
| 23 | Dawson underlined the importance of the family , a concept which became more and more explicit not only in Eliot 's later social writings but also in his plays . |
| 24 | This was visible not only in fierce complaint from reactionary newspapers but also , paradoxically enough , in the growth of the liberal zemstvo movement . |
| 25 | In this context the rhetorical commitment to the free market begins to look contradictory not only in terms of the feather-bedding of urban redevelopment but also in the imposition of a particular new economic order , a specific choice about the form of economic change that will occur . |
| 26 | Change is noticeable not only in the craft/supervisory area . |
| 27 | He was remarkable not only in his military achievement but in the circumstances of his renunciation of power . |
| 28 | This is rendered quite conscious not just in the touching veneration of Andy White ( ‘ it 's in my blood ! ’ ) but even in the work of Sonic Youth , who apply a sense of legacy to their history of rock extremity . |
| 29 | One of the most exciting features of arid-loving plants is that they are so diverse not only in leaf colour and flower , but also in texture and shape . |
| 30 | Howell was unusual not only in combining attachment to a small college with a distinguished scholarly career , but also in his success in continuing that career even while president of the college . |