Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , even if two reactive fragments were side by side in a solid argon matrix , there would not necessarily be enough thermal energy to overcome the barrier and reform the precursor . |
| 2 | Yet the counsellor of older people has to realize that the blocks may not necessarily be those current in modern attitudes and beliefs . |
| 3 | They argue that the people to whom one feels most attached will not necessarily be those who provide support . |
| 4 | Unlike the situation for depression , however , the events implicated in schizophrenia will not necessarily be those which appear threatening or unfavourable . |
| 5 | Not only are such foods very nutritious , they also contain fibre . |
| 6 | Not only are such predicates eliminable , it might be argued , but conceivably it might be possible to devise a method of paraphrase which would enable us to dispense with quantifiers as well ; and if the latter can be achieved , then the myth of the " logical independence " of existential propositions will have been exploded once and for all . |
| 7 | The complete mechanism design can thus be developed with greater confidence — not only are all the performance functions available but the mechanism can be " run " ( by cycling layers ) so as to observe it throughout its complete operating cycle . |
| 8 | Not only are many consumers injured by corporate crime ; thousands of employees too suffer from ‘ accidents ’ at work ( which are in fact not pure accidents but events which spring directly from the conditions of production and are in that sense avoidable ) or work-induced diseases , such as asbestosis , lung cancer , and mesothelioma . |
| 9 | Not only are many of the possible haplotypes confined to one race or area , but there is even a haplotype that is confined to the former ‘ Silk Road ’ between China and Europe . |
| 10 | Not only are more people marrying but they are marrying more often . |
| 11 | If we take the former interpretation of the increase in rape reporting then this would mean that not only are more men raping , but also the judiciary is increasingly allowing them to get away with it . |
| 12 | So , not only are more families drawing family credit than FIS , but a larger proportion of this group pays tax and insurance on each additional £1 of earnings , as well as losing part of the family credit payment . |
| 13 | Not only are some birds known to detect infrasound , but one species has been shown to produce infrasonic calls . |
| 14 | Not only are some of the positive points he makes in favour of marriage repeated in a negative form in the list of arguments against , but also several times the text is annotated and amended . |
| 15 | Not only are these songs impossible to use dramatically , they 're also too vague to use as incidental music , to underline or punctuate aspects of Holly 's life or the 1950s more generally . |
| 16 | Not only are these perfectly natural consequences of human consciousness , but they are utterly necessary to live a life of any depth whatsoever . |
| 17 | Not only are these terrorist groupings highly fragmented , it is not always clear either who controls them or what their motives are on specific occasions . |
| 18 | Not only are these changes demanding to implement , they are sources of doubt and concern in teachers ' minds . |
| 19 | Of course it is true that construction , distribution and services are often very labour intensive sectors even in the West , but in Japan not only are these three sectors more labour intensive , so also is manufacturing industry . |
| 20 | Not only are these very powerful facilities but they will enable you to draw professional graphics although you may not be an artist , and to present numerical data properly without the help of a statistician . |
| 21 | Hudson points to the fact that , not only are these terms applied by pupils to the arts and sciences , but also they are recognized to a large degree by those , like himself , working within psychology . |
| 22 | Not only are these harmful to the people directly involved and to their congregation , but they often receive publicity and may also bring the Church into disrepute . |
| 23 | Not only are these introns inserted at identical positions of the coxI gene , but in addition their ORFs are quite similar ( Fig. 7b ) . |
| 24 | Not only are these particularly effective on hard ground , but they obviate much of the bending down needed with normal trowels and can thus save on the backache that sometimes results . |
| 25 | Not only are these characteristics in stark contrast with the possibilities for ordinary adjectives , they can not hold for these inherently restrictive adjectives unchaperoned by an article : ( 28 ) second had roses on it Max owns best that has been discovered so far |
| 26 | Not only are these mosaics of great beauty and rich colour but they provide accurate data of the costume and appearance of Justinian 's period and illustrate the hieratic splendour of the Byzantine court . |
| 27 | to my honourable friend because not only are these er large er particularly the big six er centres of accountancy power pretty well uncontrolled , they dominate the institutions that are meant to regulate them er but when it comes to international er affairs they do n't exchange information with each other . |
| 28 | The public , as ratepayers , should realize that not only is all compensation paid out of the land-drainage budget , but that the fees of the landowner 's agent are also financed entirely out of the public purse of the water authority or other public body carrying out the scheme . |
| 29 | However , we believe that not only is such a stance disingenuous , but it also promotes a fundamentally flawed political strategy and reproduces naive notions of academic objectivity . |
| 30 | Not only is each person 's recovery a highly individual process but also the ideas and techniques of individual recovery , group processes and treatment centre programmes are all continuingly and progressively evolving . |