Example sentences of "[adj] [not/n't] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moral authority of law gets a foothold in the idea that it is rational to give special consideration to views which result from a process of impartial , informed and capable reflection , and this not simply because this process helps us to know more precisely what will promote independently ascertained moral goals but also because it is liable to result in superior judgements about what goals we ought to pursue ( Campbell , 1971 ) . |
| 2 | Only the music created slight differences and this not markedly because the composers used the best of commonly recognised traditional musical idioms . |
| 3 | He knew this not just because Uncle Titch said he had — you could n't believe anything a grown-up told you , and Uncle Titch belonged to the world of grown-ups even if he was n't — but because of the tricks he could do . |
| 4 | I do this not only because the issues are easier to grasp in the case of perception than in the case of voluntary movement , but also because neurophysiologists of movement are less prone to wild claims than neurophysiologists of perception : most of the former would admit that we do not yet have the faintest idea how voluntary activity is able to utilize or over-ride reflex pathways ; how we mobilize so-called ‘ motor programmes ’ when we need them ; or even where in the nervous system voluntary movement is initiated . |
| 5 | I mean by this not merely that it can be represented mathematically , but that , such is its concern with the quantitative aspects of reality that it consigns all the qualitative content in our conception of the world to the realm of conscious experience . |
| 6 | It often used to be said that Britain had a two-party political system , meaning by this not merely that the electoral system favoured the two major parties , but , less contentiously , that these two parties between them nearly monopolized the votes cast . |
| 7 | The relationship with Callaghan , who freely confesses he found the Queen 's advice highly supportive , was easier not only because his policies were less socially divisive , but also because , taken to its philosophical conclusion , the Thatcherite dream of a dynamic , enterprise-based meritocracy had no place for a family which reigned simply by blood-right . |
| 8 | Asian countries remain dependent not only because the intellectual property system is controlled by the West but also because most of the major knowledge infrastructures are located in the West . |
| 9 | PAUL Johnson hammered a record-breaking 167 not out as Nottinghamshire thrashed Kent at Trent Bridge and then confessed : ‘ All I had in mind was finishing the job off this time . ’ |
| 10 | It was clear not only where the differences lay , but also that those differing parts were somehow complementary , intended to be fitted together . |
| 11 | His Test debut came in the same match as Gordon Greenidge against India in 1973–4 , Greenidge totalling 200 runs and Richards 7 ; in the next game he made 192 not out and was under way . |
| 12 | Darlington RA 's professional Troy Dixon also made 105 not out and his side set a target of 216 for seven at Blackhall but the game was drawn . |
| 13 | The voices are few not only because it takes courage to speak out against the tide of opinion , but because few can see the issue in a wider context and take the longer perspective . |
| 14 | This question is interesting not only because it suggests a world wider than that of the film itself , but also because it focuses on the issue of ‘ masculinity ’ . |
| 15 | But the existence of such fields within the undergraduate curriculum is interesting not least because it raises some of the basic epistemological and educational questions in a particularly sharp form ; questions which may have caused some of the digestive problems which the CNAA has had with courses in art and design . |
| 16 | Frankie were interesting not musically but ideologically . |
| 17 | Thirty-one not out and 12 not out may not seem weighty innings , but Gower and ‘ Ramps ’ , by their survival and assertion that Sunday evening in Yorkshire , left memory imprints which will not swiftly face . |
| 18 | Human beings , in contrast , interact with one another not only because of gravity but because of dependence , love , envy , hate , etc . |
| 19 | Next general election due not later than 1994 ; next presidential elections due 1992 . |
| 20 | Even supposing that consciousness need not , or even can not , have its basis in material substance , it is possible not only that the same personal consciousness be associated with different immaterial Cartesian substances , but also that the same immaterial substance be associated , at different times , with different consciousnesses . |
| 21 | It is possible not only that the increased stratospheric concentration of oxides of nitrogen depleted ozone in the early 1960s , but also that the oxides of nitrogen absorbed incoming radiation by as much as 6–8 per cent in some months ( Kondratyev and Nikolsky , 1979 ) . |
| 22 | How is it possible not only that children are not listened to when they complain , but that the man against whom they are complaining can leave one employment for another and be given a reference by the very people who have already received complaints about him ? |
| 23 | Mike McEvoy scored 92 not out and Lorrie Austin 70 in Colchester & East Essex 's 202 for 3 declared , but they lost at South Woodford by 3 wickets . |
| 24 | Larry Gomes contributed 92 not out as he and Greenidge made an undefeated 287 , a new second-wicket record by either side in these Tests . |
| 25 | He was guilty not once and not twice , either . |
| 26 | that not less than two months notice has been given to the tenant stating that possession is required and that the Notice has expired . |
| 27 | The Act stated that other schemes could be formed from the schedule of twelve by advancing or postponing the day of payment of the first instalment , provided that the first payment was not made sooner than the eleventh day , and that not more than one penny per pound was added to the interest for every thirteen days of such postponement . |
| 28 | NSW won what was seen as a ‘ grudge ’ match , with Greg Matthews ( 85 not out and 67 , plus 11 wickets ) becoming the seventh Australian to perform the ‘ match double ’ in a Sheffield Shield game , after G. Giffen ( eight times ) , J.N. Crawford ( 1913–14 ) , C.J. Hill ( 1932–33 ) , T.J. Jenner ( 1973–74 ) , P.H. Carlson ( 1978–79 ) and J.C . |
| 29 | Unfamiliar , clearly posed , these problems are made accessible not quite as history nor yet as fantasy but with something of the acceptable plainness of fairy tale challenges . |
| 30 | For Mrs Whitehouse and her supporters , publications such as this were dangerous not only because of their sexual content , but because of their political stance . |