Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [that] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not necessarily that the rich were more adroit at tax avoidance . |
| 2 | It is not only that a significant part of most people 's pensions are invested in these falling Japanese shares but also that a significant part of Japan 's wealth is invested in the West . |
| 3 | General Leclerc , as a soldier , was not , at least not to begin with , and believed not only that the reconquest of Tonkin , even in part , was impossible but that a negotiated settlement was essential even if it conceded independence . |
| 4 | However , self-preservation requires not only that the mean velocity distribution should be similar , but also that all the parameters associated with the turbulence should have similar distributions at different stations . |
| 5 | It is possible not only that the increased stratospheric concentration of oxides of nitrogen depleted ozone in the early 1960s , but also that the oxides of nitrogen absorbed incoming radiation by as much as 6–8 per cent in some months ( Kondratyev and Nikolsky , 1979 ) . |
| 6 | In 16 , however ( and perhaps in 15 , too ) , it is possible to argue not only that the two sentences can be used to make identical statements , but more specifically that horse and mare make effectively the same semantic contribution to their respective sentences . |
| 7 | In our commitment as a party to home rule , we proceed on the footing not only that the distinctive characteristics of Scotland and its people need expression and institutions of government , but that the demands of modern government require those institutions to be immediate , sensitive and properly democratic . |
| 8 | One of Shaughnessy 's sources , with close links to Israeli intelligence , actually claimed to have heard the tapes of these telephone intercepts , and another , well-connected with the US intelligence community , confirmed not only that the Iranian Embassy 's calls had been monitored at that time but also the substance of the Lovejoy — Niknam conversations . |
| 9 | Even supposing that consciousness need not , or even can not , have its basis in material substance , it is possible not only that the same personal consciousness be associated with different immaterial Cartesian substances , but also that the same immaterial substance be associated , at different times , with different consciousnesses . |
| 10 | Since Jarvella instructed his subjects to recall as much as they could remember word for word , and he scored for accuracy of verbatim recall , these results suggest not only that the last-heard clause has the highest verbatim recall but also that the amount of syntactic information which is being retained about a preceding clause depends on whether or not that clause forms part of a larger linguistic unit which also includes the most recent clause . |
| 11 | We shall assume not only that the IS-LM model is the correct model but also that agents know that it is the correct model . |
| 12 | As regards Goody 's sharp distinction between oral and literate cultures , it demonstrates not only that the social reality does not correspond to this ‘ great divide ’ but also that developing a model which enables one to proceed as if it did so is not the only or most fruitful way of proceeding . |
| 13 | It is not only that the social range of fiction becomes much more inclusive , allowing the writer to explore interiors that make no claim to architecture , but that living space itself develops individual character . |
| 14 | The usefulness of some system of cooperation and team work is not only that the particular subject knowledge or skills of teachers can be pooled and shared , The teacher also needs support and advice in a more personal and practical sense . |
| 15 | The implication is that , to solve some kinds of problem , an animal must know that something is the case , and not merely that a given action or sequence of actions has in the past been reinforced . |
| 16 | It may be , following the Directive ( art 7(e) ) , that the test is whether the knowledge existed to discover the defect and not merely that the standard tests and procedures were undertaken by the drug company concerned . |
| 17 | It often used to be said that Britain had a two-party political system , meaning by this not merely that the electoral system favoured the two major parties , but , less contentiously , that these two parties between them nearly monopolized the votes cast . |
| 18 | ‘ It is not just that the unwanted presence of rainbow trout can ruin the sport but there is also the environmental impact of these strangers , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 19 | He argues that it is not just that the long waves each have a different pattern but that regional differentiation , and regional political and social movements , are crucial to the shape of long waves themselves . |
| 20 | Right so it 's not just that the National Party want the people on the ground to choose the nice addresses . |
| 21 | It was not just that the Old King possessed the greater resources — which he did -he was also able to overwhelm his enemies by sheer speed of movement . |
| 22 | It is not just that the academic protocols of putative objectivity , cross referencing and theoretical vocabulary sit uneasily beside political polemic which reads so differently from the equally strict conventions of focused brevity in the local government or consultant 's report , although these issues of style are themselves not minor . |
| 23 | They wrote : ‘ It is not often that a major British church seeks such an interview , and the conference and our 500,000 members and 1 million community can not but be offended . |
| 24 | It is not often that a major commanding such a small force gets the opportunity to present his views to the Prime Minister . |
| 25 | As with most areas of sociological study , it is not often that a simple and unproblematic definition can be established . |
| 26 | Soil creep is still moving the weathered rocks down the slopes but it is not often that the changing river channel is directly below a slope to remove this rock debris . |
| 27 | THE CRITICS Musicon Concert : Durham Cathedral IT is not often that the reverberant acoustic of Durham Cathedral enhances the sounds produced by a orchestra ; but two of the items in this concert certainly benefitted from the extra resonance . |
| 28 | It is not simply that a large number of multiply-deprived people live in the urban cores ( Hall and Laurence , 1981 ) ; there are individuals and households where this applies , but highest unemployment rates are frequently encountered in areas of new public housing that would not be identified as inadequate in census surveys . |
| 29 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 30 | However , the situation is not simply that the right hemisphere is more implicated than usual in the production of speech . |