Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Those responsible are interested in an effective total process not just an effective interview and all the stages in the process interact . |
| 3 | A lease , because of the involvement of the landlord ( who is not or who at any rate in his capacity as landlord is not a member of the firm ) , needs not only an appropriate declaration that the named partners joined as lessees hold the term on trust but also : ( a ) a declaration that possession of the demised premises by partners who are not trustees of the lease shall not by itself constitute a breach of the usual covenants against parting with or sharing possession ; ( b ) a provision which dispenses with the landlord 's consent ( or makes it automatic ) to an assignment of the demised premises to partners other than the original lessees or to the vesting of the premises in new trustees for the firm . |
| 4 | They suggest that the deterioration may be even greater than was apparent from our study as they found not only an appreciable and continuing decline in sperm concentration but also an increased percentage of morphologically abnormal and immotile sperm . |
| 5 | He sees too that the other should from the first have known better , as he himself should ( he has come to understand that in retrospect ) , and therefore judges that they both made not only an unlucky but a bad choice . |
| 6 | That represents not merely an intensification of the use of the line but a change in its character . |
| 7 | Creating synthetic chemical structures that can reproduce themselves represents not only an intriguing intellectual challenge , but also a possible way of illuminating one of the most basic processes of a living cell . |
| 8 | The project requires a flexible approach , demanding not only an analysis of the law but an economic and business approach to the nature of the small business and an understanding of small business computer systems . |
| 9 | ‘ Black ’ , here , denotes not simply an often successful political alliance against racism . |
| 10 | The company 's annual report revealed not only an increase in the number of people using the cross-border service , but also a rise of 3.8pc in overall passenger income to £7.2m . |
| 11 | By concentrating on the value and significance of their experience , the counsellor will generate not only an important historical and social insight , particularly if a physical record is kept , but will learn about the impact of the war on the individual , that is , from the only perspective that has relevance to the counsellor . |
| 12 | The pallium gave Hygeberht no jurisdiction in Saxon territories or in Kent but it did afford him metropolitan rights over all the Anglian peoples north of the Thames and south of the Humber , which may suggest that Offa was seeking not just an archbishop of the Mercians but a new ecclesiastical order for the Angles of midland and eastern England . |
| 13 | So , the photo-sensitive cells lining it receive not just an impression of light or darkness , but a crude image of the scene . |
| 14 | When , in January , 1988 , Prince Edward enlisted in Lloyd Webber 's Really Useful Company , in the humble role of general factotum , with the improbable public assurances that he would be treated " no differently from anybody else " , it seemed not only an oblique confirmation of royal patronage , but that Lloyd Webber himself had ascended to some peculiar level of hierarchy where he was able to employ princes as tea-boys . |
| 15 | As with every other technological innovation , they may attempt to protect their ‘ inventions ’ which means after altering the genes , they could slap a patent on it , making it possible to own not just an idea and a technique , but the matrix of a living animal . |
| 16 | Design changes at a later stage , affecting this decision , will provide not only an indication of what components need to be changed but also a visual indication of the resulting effect on supporting components . |
| 17 | This would mean , of course , that the town would begin to exert not only an influence but a direct effective power over the School by subsidising the Master 's salary . |
| 18 | However , progress in a similar way towards an understanding of the mechanics of weathering processes ( e.g. Curtis , 1976 ) requires not only an adequate knowledge of chemistry and of exchange reactions , but also of processes at a different scale . |
| 19 | The maintenance of this imperium has become not only an essential pillar of the regime 's internal legitimacy , but as essential a pillar of her external legitimacy as a Superpower . |
| 20 | These rights included not only an ability to continue using the property as before but also the right to rebuild or extend it , provided the original building was not exceeded by more than ten per cent . |
| 21 | An Information Science element had existed in the course for some time and included not only an introduction to libraries and the nature of information but also on-line retrieval systems and other forms of electronic information provision . |
| 22 | If you are confident that you can show that your contract has been broken , you might wish to pursue not only an unfair dismissal complaint , but also a claim in respect of breach of your contract . |
| 23 | There is no net increase in the number of elements activated by a given stimulus but the circles have been moved apart , indicating not only an increase in the number of unique elements activated by a stimulus but a corresponding decrease in the number of common elements activated . |
| 24 | In its full sense it connotes not merely an acquaintance with a certain number of terms , or the power of spelling these terms without gross mistakes . |
| 25 | De Lattre , it seems , had himself in mind as a Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia and his proposals for a joint intelligence operation together with a strategic reserve of six or eight divisions would , if it had come to anything , have meant not only an American but a British commitment to French fortunes in Indo-China . |
| 26 | Mind you the title was a bit funny because it did n't Almost an Angel but if he died and he went to heaven , then he must have been an angel but came back down , he 's still an angel . |
| 27 | The precedents which follow , therefore , contain not only an assignment of the husband 's equitable interest in the property but also a conveyance of the legal estate to new trustees . |
| 28 | For those with a taste for the unusual and exotic , Pavilions in Peril remains not only an engaging armchair read , but an explorer 's guide to a forgotten world of follies and garden temples . |
| 29 | He was also a minor landed gentleman , a circumstance which gave Burn not only an entry to society , but a profound understanding of his clients : as Donaldson recalled , ‘ no-one could tell with greater spirit many a good story about the auld Scots lairds and their vagaries . ’ |
| 30 | He wanted not only an on-screen separating , but one off to match . |