Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asked how the tree came about she said ‘ Well , it 's just like God to make something useful out of what we think is rubbish ’ — a comment which referred not only to the fruit but also to her own convict origins . |
| 2 | Sterling faces a week of turbulence , buffeted not only by the uncertainty of the British election campaign but also by its partners in the ERM . |
| 3 | For l/d = 540 , the range has been observed to start at a Reynolds number ( based on a velocity averaged not only over a cross-section but also over a cycle of the pulsation ) of about 4700 ; the intermittency factor at the outlet became unity at Re = 5900 . |
| 4 | They were , by twelfth-century standards , exceedingly rich ; and that applied not only to the Pisa of duomo , baptistry and leaning tower — but to many of its lesser neighbours , Volterra , San Gimignano and the rest . |
| 5 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 6 | This led not only to the aggravation of unemployment problems but also to the lowering of labour force participation rates through earlier retirement and fewer married women returning to work after child-rearing — a phenomenon which , not surprisingly , was particularly marked in northern cities and industrial towns . |
| 7 | ‘ And it was , in my view , the lack of sufficiently rigorous and enquiring approach which led not only to the failure to appreciate that there was a Jersey partnership but also to some other of the faults I have identified . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It was , in my view , the lack of a sufficiently rigorous and enquiring approach which led not only to the failure to appreciate that there was a Jersey partnership but also to some others of the faults I have identified . ’ |
| 9 | Denudation chronology also produced a number of debates which centred not only on the existence of surfaces of a particular number , which was not readily resolved by trend surface analysis , but also on the mode of development of planation surfaces and the significance of earth movement in influencing the denudation chronology . |
| 10 | The hostility of the FA arose not just from a lack of commercial sense but from a more profound belief that gambling was wrong . |
| 11 | His apprehension arose not out of a fear that she would ruin him by extravagant expenditure but from a neurotic anxiety that if she knew how much money he had put away , she might feel free to leave him . |
| 12 | Their frustration arose not only from the belief that amelioration was failing in the West Indies , but from lack of action by the Whig government and the little urgency displayed , in the eyes of many activists , by the London committee of the Anti-Slavery Society and their parliamentary allies . |
| 13 | In the morning we had difficulty getting the camels down to the lake ; we then followed the stream that flowed out of it and after a short march camped not far from an Adoimara village . |
| 14 | Another serious side-product of agriculture is methane gas ; belched not least from the mouths of the world 's increasing population of cattle . |
| 15 | Public opinion and attitudes were formed , influenced , hardened and diffused not merely by the fact of their repetition and record in parliament but also through the growing experience of parliamentary representatives . |
| 16 | Ironically , on the day when the knives were out for Taylor , his main support came not just from the man he took over from in July 1990 but also from Terry Venables , a potential successor . |
| 17 | The play would be comprehensible to anyone , he stressed , as the narrative thrust came not just from the script in Gaelic , English and the north-east 's own dialect , but from music , dance , vision and conversation . |
| 18 | I did submit what I had written , and , not altogether to my surprise , I received not long after a letter from Eliot beginning ‘ I am sorry to tell you … . |
| 19 | Immediately behind and above the waterfall , the sloping hillside had become a fifty-foot smooth rocky cliff , so that the water poured not only over the edge above , but out into the pool , leaving a ledge along which Bill Robins now beckoned me . |
| 20 | The continuing electoral hegemony of the Conservatives rested not only on the division of the anti-Tory vote between Labour and Liberals , but also on the fact that large numbers of manual and white-collar workers , benefiting from the rapid growth of new industries , services and housing in the Midlands and the South of England , felt that they had good reason to be grateful to the Government . |
| 21 | They were somewhat taken aback , however , when its representative arrived not only with the chef , but with an assortment of eight other people , one or two of whom were faintly familiar , though unidentifiable save by Angelina , who had been best placed on Saturday evening to recognise the ‘ waiters ’ at the banquet . |
| 22 | Programmes were long over , but the white screen with the volume down served not badly as a night light ; any of the lamps in the shoebox room kept Sam awake , and total darkness made him frightened . |
| 23 | In 1839 this political credo was given definitive form in the Idées Napoléoniennes , which served not only as a resumé of the history of his uncle but sketched , in some detail , a possible future regime . |
| 24 | It also shaped his own priorities : in 1958 , he returned not just with the aim of saving France 's honour , but with a clear vision of a new regime that he intended to found as well as a hard-won wisdom about how best to realize his vision . |
| 25 | There can be no doubt that the policy of Republicans must be to ensure that everything is done to make this demand more strong , vigorously organised , widespread , well-expressed and heard not only in the North but in Britain and throughout the world . |
| 26 | The historical legacy of women 's artistic practices must be acknowledged and researched not only for the sake of justice . |
| 27 | Indeed , the ice sheet 's frozen cargo may include meteorite specimens derived not only from the fragmentation of asteroids and possibly of comets but also from the Moon and Mars . |
| 28 | It called not only for an investigation of the sentencing powers and practice of the criminal courts , but of the sentencing process itself . |
| 29 | Once , the oral tradition ensured that knowledge went not only to the brain but to the heart , to become the synthesis from within . |
| 30 | Many have complex option features , related not only to the share price — as with warrants and convertibles — but possibly to interest rates and/or foreign exchange rates if the instrument includes issuer call or investor put features . |