Example sentences of "[adj] not [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Customers were becoming much more discerning — interested not just in price , but quality of products . |
| 2 | The aspirations of lesbians and gay men were often different , and lesbians campaigned for space that was free not only of heterosexism , but also of gay men ; funding for a Lesbian Centre was eventually provided in 1989 . |
| 3 | Gregory claimed that Tours was free not only from taxation , but also from certain military obligations . |
| 4 | Abusive or excessive drinking is harmful not only to society but to the long-term interests of the industry as well . |
| 5 | As a result those areas , notably the paramos plains and intermontane valleys , which are suitable for herding and crop-growing are experiencing environmental problems due not simply to over-exploitation , but to poor management such as the lack of rotational grazing and the replacement of traditional crops with cash crops . |
| 6 | ‘ The Brixton squad has a depth that Hillingdon never had and we are strong not just on court but also on the bench , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Such treatment of an old myth is typical not only of Pindar but of his time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In so unequal a friendship — unequal not merely in respect of age but in the extent to which the giving was preponderantly on his side — I would repeatedly wonder whether I had presumed too much . |
| 10 | It is also held that freedom of expression is applicable not only to information or ideas favourably received but also to those that ‘ offend , shock or disturb either the State or any sector of the population ’ . |
| 11 | The interface was applicable not only to robot arms but to buggies and those interested in making ‘ high-tech ’ versions of Victorian ‘ automata ’ or animated models . |
| 12 | They do not learn effectively from the written word ; and listening to children reading aloud will invariably uncover a whole spectrum of difficulties concerned not only with vocabulary but with the ways in which words are strung together and the ways in which , even in straightforward narrative or information text , sentences cohere and relate . |
| 13 | It sees health as a collective , community issue and is concerned not only with treatment and cure but with prevention , rehabilitation and education for health . |
| 14 | The issue points to a more fundamental tension at the heart of professional education , which is that it is concerned not only with knowledge and skills but with norms and attitudes . |
| 15 | This is an important achievement , for microscopy is concerned not only with magnification ; you could project a tiny image on to a cinema screen and obtain enormous magnification without seeing any more detail . |
| 16 | This was concerned not only with poverty but with working-class culture more generally . |
| 17 | He saw himself as one of a ‘ new strain of educators ’ , a ‘ polytechnician ’ , in a sector that was concerned not only with scholarship but with something more : ‘ it is design , it is action , it is synthesis , it is professionalism , it is the application of knowledge ’ . |
| 18 | But market research is concerned not only with measurement of consumption : some of the industry 's most striking successes ( as well as a few flops ) have been about prediction . |
| 19 | As we have seen , this is important not just in anaphor resolution but in all aspects of language interpretation . |
| 20 | These studies are important not only for gall stone recurrence after oral dissolution treatment but also for recurrence in any situation where the gall bladder remains in situ but the stones have been removed by percutaneous cholecystolithotomy , instillation of contact solvents such as MTBE and , to a lesser extent because of patient selection , by extra corporeal shock wave dissolution with or without adjuvant bile acids . |
| 21 | Eating the right kind of food and having a balanced diet is important not only for weight control but for the well-being of skin , hair and every other part of us that we tend to treat in terms of beauty rather than health care . |
| 22 | consumer affairs are of course very important not only in retirement but throughout life . |
| 23 | Lenin once argued that a political leader is responsible not only for policy but for the action of those who execute it . |
| 24 | Assistance with rent and rates for people on a low income is available not only to council tenants , but also to tenants or private landlords , those who live in housing association accommodation and owner occupiers . |
| 25 | The Chartist movement was therefore vital not just for power in Britain but throughout Europe and in India — ‘ Hence , Poland must be liberated not in Poland , but in England ’ . |
| 26 | That makes it difficult not only for Opposition Members but for hon. Members on the Government Benches to discuss matters properly . |
| 27 | Although it is clear that the left hemisphere is dominant not only for speech but also for verbal memory and reasoning generally ( Meyer and Yates , 1955 ; Meyer , 1959 ; Milner , 1962 , 1971 ; Lansdell , 1968 , 1969 , 1973 ; Benton , 1968 ; Newcombe , 1969 , 1974 ; Buffery , 1974 ) the nature of hemispheric control of speech output is still somewhat obscure . |
| 28 | there and I said no my handsome you did n't pick that up and the case fell , fell to bi he , cos he was going on this is inferior not up to standard and so I said |
| 29 | As a personality trait , this is a universal characteristic , necessary not just for survival but also , at moderate levels , for motivating optimum performance on many everyday tasks . |
| 30 | The question of widening or deepening is relevant not only to membership of the Community , but also to the powers of the Community . |