Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [adv] " 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 very principle of social insurance lies not merely threatened but broken by 12 years of abuse by the Government . |
| 6 | From this perspective , the remedy lies not so much in providing personal help as in attempting to reconcile the activities of women and the values of society more effectively . |
| 7 | The importance of television in US politics , it should be stressed , lies not so much in the paid media of political advertising as in the free media of news broadcasts . |
| 8 | The characteristic contribution of the senior civil servant lies not so much in the originality and imagination he or she may display in thinking up new policies — these can be a positive nuisance without the ability to convince and lead those , often outside the service , who will have to put them into effect — but the skills to recognize promising new ideas and the opportunities to develop them , and to exploit the opportunities when they occur . |
| 9 | Elvis 's importance , then , lies not so much in the mix of elements ( blues/country/Tin Pan Alley ) which he helped to bring into being in rock 'n' roll , but in what he did with it . |
| 10 | The road to an egalitarian society , therefore , lies not so much through the social services , even broadly defined and purposefully designed , but through changes in the economic and political institutions of the country which generate and shape inequality . |
| 11 | Normally , the ingenuity which requires protection is in the circuitry represented by the patterns formed by the conducting materials , but the regulations are wider in the sense that they will apply in situations where the ingenuity lies not so much in the horizontal patterns themselves but in the vertical arrangement of layers . |
| 12 | The danger , however , lies not only in swallowing false generalizations , or in forgetting how far the realities of later life are shaped by social pressures which may be quite new or open to future change . |
| 13 | Behind this privileging of popular culture lies not only an identification with the oppressed masses , but also a sense that Latin-American reality is radically different from that of the developed , industrial West , as well as a search for an identity whose roots are to be found in Latin America itself . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And the feminist folklinguistic discussion of logic does seem to imply that difference lies not only in what women say , but in the way they say it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Its importance lies not only in its welcome — and sometimes literally life-giving — warmth , but in the light it provides . |
| 18 | The danger in this new drive that is a feature of many advanced industrial societies lies not only in raising unrealistic expectations from these areas of study but also in denigrating the contribution of the social sciences to economic growth and in neglecting the non-economic functions of education which are just as important to the well-being of individuals and of society at large . |
| 19 | Some critics of the inequitable distribution of services and resources and of the poor quality of much local provision have argued that the fault lies not only with local government but with antiquated central government organization . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ICI 's strength in the polypropylene market lies not only in its manufacturing technology which enables it to produce materials specially adapted to customer 's needs but also in the integrated structure of Chemicals & Polymers Limited . |
| 25 | To complete unity it needs not just a flow of money from west to east but a sense of national solidarity . |
| 26 | and erm justify long-term development needs not just in total , but by recognizing making a major contribution to total land use but also . |
| 27 | That makes them effective when the policies are right ; but to run a stable economy one needs not only strong character but the right ideas . |
| 28 | Choosing the final design needs not only care to ensure that the end product will be commercially attractive but that a number of people are involved in the selection to avoid accusations of favouritism . |
| 29 | The Government needs not only to help with after-school childcare but to put a proper amount of money into that service . |
| 30 | This is an area which needs not only more consistency in the estimates underlying depreciation calculations but more meaningful disclosure , particularly where the estimates used by an airline vary considerably from industry averages ’ . |