Example sentences of "[not/n't] [art] only [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against it , I shall argue first that what Quine means by verificationism is not the only empirical theory of meaning , and second that a theory which abandons atomism at the observational level in favour of a more complete holism would be generally preferable both for empiricists and for others . |
| 2 | And Balemartin was not the only Baptist church in the island ; there was another at Baugh and ‘ stations ’ at Balevullin and Balephuil , many of the congregation having to stand outside . |
| 3 | You 're not the only Nordic expert in the service , you know . |
| 4 | As mentioned at the start of this section , the common law is not the only legal system in which rights to land are lost by abandonment : |
| 5 | But this is not the only possible way in which the economy might respond to the upward shift of the aggregate demand curve . |
| 6 | The organisation of care is not the only possible influence on glycaemic control . |
| 7 | This is not the only possible approach for the courts to adopt . |
| 8 | As the reference above to ‘ parallel processing ’ suggests , the logical-sequential approach is not the only possible form of a computational model . |
| 9 | Warnings or dismissal are not the only possible penalties for misconduct . |
| 10 | Travel and practical experience abroad were not the only possible ways of preparing for a career in diplomacy . |
| 11 | More prescriptively , welfare pluralism implies a less dominant role for the state , seeing it as not the only possible instrument for the collective provision of welfare services . |
| 12 | I was not the only sad father in Haworth . |
| 13 | The huge lateral leap taken when , by reaction to the classical detective story and its immediate heirs , the private-eye tale came into being was not the only major change in the history of crime fiction since Edgar Allan Poe . |
| 14 | But retirement is not the only dirty word in his lexicon as MICK CLEARY discovered . |
| 15 | I was pleased to renew friendships made over two years ago at the First Congress of Black Catholics , and it was a joy to be again in a crowd of African , Afro-Caribbean and Asian Catholics where for once I was not the only black face in a sea of white ones . |
| 16 | Edwards used to take a nail onto the field with which to assail the seam , but that was not the only close sailing in which they indulged . |
| 17 | Civil wars were not the only destructive forces in the Merovingian kingdoms . |
| 18 | But Adalard was not the only influential man in Charles 's entourage at this time . |
| 19 | The global system , at the end of the twentieth century , is not synonymous with the global capitalist system , but the driving forces behind global capitalism are the dominant though not the only driving forces behind the global system . |
| 20 | Accountability and openness are not the only unique features of the report . |
| 21 | Further it suggested that of those people who did not go to a lawyer , a higher proportion had received help from outside the household , and of that group only one-quarter had received advice to go to a lawyer which they had ignored Such contrary evidence does not denigrate the value of pre-legal advice , but suggests that , as would be expected , it is not the only significant factor in determining whether , and if so why and how , people seek legal advice . |
| 22 | But beat duty was of course not the only punitive experience for the rank-and-file policeman . |
| 23 | And the ear is not the only sensitive part of the human anatomy which Cloverleaf is designed to appeal to . |
| 24 | The smoke of fires was not the only reeking element in the atmosphere . |
| 25 | I suspect that I am not the only hon. Member in the Chamber with a sense of de ja vu when we debate European affairs . |
| 26 | This was not the only military site in the vicinity , however ; some 3.2 km ( 2 miles ) down the river lay the vexillation fortress at Longthorpe , which , with its associated works depot and practice camps , is assigned to the period AD 47–62 . |
| 27 | Witchcraft and sorcery , which in any case few other cultures distinguish as sharply as the Zande , are not the only mystical responses to the experience of affliction in tense relationships . |
| 28 | His reading of Henry Adams was not the only painful revival of memory or confrontation with his own apparent failure which he had to endure in 1919 . |
| 29 | We have to acknowledge , therefore , that the proper balance between the theoretical and the practical is not the only curricular problem with which schools are faced , though it may be the most pressing . |
| 30 | Correlations and spectra are not the only experimental tools for elucidating the structure of turbulent flows . |