Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not enough to be able to translate a topic into themes : ability to see a theme in turn translated back into action is a necessity . |
| 2 | We need not only to be able to swim in a sea of uncertainty but also to resist panic when we get out of our depth . |
| 3 | ‘ I am one of those people ’ , he has said in the past , ’ who must take exercise not only to be able to give of my best , but just to survive — I mean , I ca n't function without it . |
| 4 | Not only in being able to select a group where perhaps we can justify more aggressive therapy , or even a group that perhaps we should just treat palatally but also in the future with the development of anti- angiogenic therapy . |
| 5 | Her job might be one of considerable stress and strain , but she really had been incredibly lucky , Laura told herself , not just in being able to afford to buy a penthouse apartment in this large , architectually prestigious warehouse development beside the river at Wapping , but also in managing to persuade her old school-friend Julie to come and share the apartment with her . |
| 6 | It 's not possibly to be obvious to say you write an estimate of financial communication , but the first year against the should say this is brought up for review . |
| 7 | The only scope for progress was to find harder abrasives , devise more effective tools for applying them and not least to be prepared to invest more time , something which depended on more powerful patronage . |
| 8 | I had to accept the fact that he was an individualist , and that for him the only tolerable war was one in which he felt he was making some personal contribution — personal , but never ‘ glory-seeking ’ , as he had made clear in 1940 , not least by being prepared to postpone obtaining his commission . |