Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] not [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UCTA covers not only clauses which exclude such liability in whole , but also those which exclude or restrict it partially ( eg a limitation as to the monetary amount to be paid by way of compensation for such a liability when incurred ) . |
| 2 | α-granule nucleoids have been demonstrated by electronmicroscopic studies in the canalicular system ( White , 1974 ) , and it is likely that normal secretion involves not only fusion of these granules with the canalicular system but also platelet contraction . |
| 3 | I understand that your institution covers not only Cambridgeshire but also Norfolk and Suffolk , so my welcome is a particular one to those delegates who have travelled here from neighbouring counties today , and I trust that your journey on such a pleasant morning was a really good one and that you 'll find that this symposium is going to be very worthwhile . |
| 4 | The laird , Macleod , asked Johnson therefore to define ‘ the particular excellence of Burke 's eloquence ’ , and Johnson 's reply summarises not only Burke , but all men of such gifts , and it hymns education and the acquisition of learning : ‘ Copiousness , and fertility of allusion ; a power of diversifying his matter , by placing it in various relations . |
| 5 | The foal receives not only affection and security from its mother , but also acceptance . |
| 6 | The law of nullity covers not only cases where the purported marriage was void , but also those where the marriage , though initially valid , is voidable , and thus may be set aside . |
| 7 | network membership supplies not only information , but also the tacit skills which enable individuals to become competent and accepted members of occupational groups . |
| 8 | The result is that today 's population contains not only Arabs , the majority , but Kurds , Turks and Armenians . |
| 9 | Adhesion requires not only integrin ligands on the endothelium , but also activation signals because T-cell integrins can not bind well until they are activated . |
| 10 | ( As a matter of fact , nature imitates not only art but examination questions ; not long ago a man of my acquaintance shot his wife in the leg , in the shrubbery , thinking she was a rabbit . ) |
| 11 | The term 's local usage covers not only squirrels and tree shrews but also some forest rats . |
| 12 | The fact that the average adult spends a minimum of 26 hours sitting in front of a television set in any one week represents not only time lost in sharing activities with their children and young people , but time lost in influencing and controlling them . |
| 13 | ( e ) The definition covers not just intentions ( " deliberate " ) deception but also reckless misrepresentations . |
| 14 | Efficiency incorporates not only quantity and quality of achievement but also preservation of his own safety and health and that of others who might be involved as working partners , passengers or the general public in the neighbourhood . |
| 15 | The charter covers not only salaries , a minimum wage and maternity benefit but deals with many issues . |
| 16 | The operation of the mythic DNA affects not only Shakespeare 's plots but contemporary history as he interpreted it ; so chaste women wronged by their boar-driven husbands include not only such fictional figures as Hero in Much Ado About Nothing and Imogen in Cymbeline , but also Katherine of Aragon ( in Henry VIII ) . |
| 17 | At first sight the paradox that liberalism requires not only freedom of contract but also freedom to breach any contract is quickly resolved . |
| 18 | Dress underwrites not only class differences but national and racial ones also , and Perkins has harsh words for those who adopt the fashion of other countries : ‘ this one sinne is so common among us , that it hath branded our English people with the blacke mark of the vainest and most newfangled people under heaven ’ ( p. 211 ) . |
| 19 | This cue prompts not only breeding , but also their annual moult , and the vast journeys of migrating birds . |
| 20 | We saw earlier that academic freedom means not just rights , but responsibilities . |
| 21 | To make a contribution towards this end requires not only knowledge of alternatives and commitment to putting them into practice but also an understanding of how social policy is made and implemented . |
| 22 | Obtaining any professional qualification requires not only vocation and commitment , but also great investment in both personal and financial terms . |
| 23 | His position as fly-half requires not only skill and vision , but also confidence and experience . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The foal receives affection from its mother from the day it is born ; and the bond is strengthened as the mare provides not only nourishment , but also contact , security , reassurance , and grooming sessions . |
| 26 | Furthermore , as drafted , the Agreement would allow the Purchaser to claim damages on the tortious measure as well ( essentially the difference between what the Purchaser paid and the market value of what it got in return ) because the Agreement incorporates not only warranties , but representations as well . |
| 27 | However , as the Kingman Report makes clear , the structure of language means not only grammar ( in the sense of sentence syntax ) but also phonology , graphology , vocabulary and discourse organisation , and terms are needed for : . |