Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key to the approach though lies not just with the police but with the Northants diversion unit . |
| 2 | The importance of Bakhtin 's method lies not simply in the formal identification of a genre or a subgenre or a chronotope , but also in the connection which he establishes between internal generic form and external history . |
| 3 | This concentration on christology is of the very essence of Barth 's method , but the greatness of his theological achievement lies not simply in the method and form of the whole , but in the way in which he succeeded by this means in re-integrating and casting quite fresh light on all the great leading themes of classical orthodox belief . |
| 4 | One 's reason for doubt lies not merely in the way selection is made : it is simply that those selected have to be very independent indeed to withstand or divert the direction pushed by permanent staff , all of whom seem already to be behaving with unwonted circumspection . |
| 5 | The charm of this village lies not only in the pleasing situation , but in being quite unspoilt by modern buildings , and in still retaining a genuine ‘ olde worlde ’ atmosphere . |
| 6 | The significance of this lies not only in the fact that these are all writers who themselves adopted the ancient conception of the rule of law . |
| 7 | Hourcade also saw as a second feature of Cubist painting the organization of the whole surface in terms of interpenetrating or interacting planes : ‘ The fascination of the paintings lies not only in the presentation of the main objects represented , but in the dynamism which emerges from the composition , a strange , disturbing dynamism , but one that is perfectly controlled . ’ |
| 8 | Thus the diversity lies not only in the differences between people , the sitters , but also in different ways of photographing and in the varying contexts within which we encounter the image . |
| 9 | But the state of a country 's mental health lies not only in the fate of its hospital patients but also in the general condition of its people . |
| 10 | The value of computerized information retrieval lies not only in the in-depth storage and retrieval of information but in the opportunity for developing in-depth search strategies free from the restraints of searching a number of bibliographic tools for relevant information . |
| 11 | I think that , and I know that members from the D S O board , many members excuse me , er agreed that there seems a need to be a more positive approach taken to save the schools and other organisations within the county council network , when considering erm , the uses of the D S O , the advantages that that has not only on the county council , but them as an individual school , college or whatever . |
| 12 | As April , ‘ the cruellest month ’ , brings renewed life , which is a renewal of pain and memories of destruction , so antithetically , this dust looks not only towards the grave , but also towards birth as the handful of fecundating dust sprinkled over those red rocks of Durkheim 's desert tribes . |
| 13 | In PCT the individual interacts not just with the world but with the world as he/she interprets it . |
| 14 | This holds not merely within the private-for-profit sector but among non-profits and government bureaus as well . |
| 15 | It refers not simply to the sound of a poem 's words , but has wider reverberations relating to Eliot 's own explorations in anthropology , and to the sort of combination of primitive ritual and civilized world explored in The Waste Land and Sweeney Agonistes : |
| 16 | The governing process refers not only to the activities of Cabinet , Parliament , nationally and locally elected representatives but also includes those of the large public bureaucracies of civil servants , the police , the army , the courts and so on . |
| 17 | The ‘ revolution ’ refers not only to the paper binding of volumes ( which had already occurred in the nineteenth century ) but much more to a shift in distribution methods , away from specialist outlets for books . |
| 18 | This classification refers not only to the size of teams , but to their composition . |
| 19 | Ease of use refers not only to the man-machine interface level but , more importantly , to the search task itself . |
| 20 | ‘ A lot of the credit for that goes not only to the photographers themselves who have argued their case for greater prominence , but a great debt is owed to people like the editor Harold Evans who pioneered the creative use of photography in papers . |
| 21 | It occurs not only in the nucleus but also in the nucleolus in the cytoplasm . |
| 22 | The impact of acidic precipitation on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems depends not simply on the pH value of the precipitation but also on the capability of lakes and soils to neutralize or buffer the acidic inputs of the precipitation . |
| 23 | The desire to travel — especially among the young and the well-educated — depends not only on the existence of a few Great Sights , but also on scenic variety , a sense that a particular place is different and , above all , old . |
| 24 | The accuracy of a digital representation of a line depends not only on the ability of the person using the digitizer to follow the centre of the line on the map exactly but also on the number of points they input to describe the shape of the line ( Aldred 1972 ) . |
| 25 | Much depends not only on the ability of Britain 's domestic IT industry to provide customers with good products but on how other organisations respond to using the technology . |
| 26 | Texts are always ambiguous since their meaning depends not only on the lexical and syntactical structure , in which ambiguity , according to Olson and others , can be reduced to a minimum , but also on paralinguistic , contextual structures , of which interpretation can never be exhaustive . |
| 27 | Maintenance of an adequate circulation to provide the means of transport for oxygen and carbon dioxide depends not only on the correct functioning of the heart and vessels but also on the presence of an adequate amount of fluid to circulate . |
| 28 | The resolving power of a microscope depends not only on the wavelength of the light but also inversely on the aperture of the instrument . |
| 29 | The strength with which particular potentially contradictory relationships are held together depends not only on the amount of objective ‘ fit ’ between the components but also on the strength of the articulating principle involved , which is in turn connected with objective social factors . |
| 30 | The ratio of locals to newcomers in the village today depends not only on the accessibility to nearby urban centres , but , now that most of lowland England has been subject to these changes , by the mixture of housing which each village contains . |