Example sentences of "[vb past] not [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the prolonging of the life of the base 3090s , which helped not only Comdisco but all IBM 's other rivals in the used mainframe business ; and |
| 2 | In the abbot 's parlour they found not only Radulfus , but Robert of Leicester waiting for them . |
| 3 | The plan worked because in this new environment the young Prince found not only friendship but also the stimulus of intellectual competition . |
| 4 | He pursued not only economies of scale but also reductions in the time occupied by movements which occurred within establishments so that labour could be used efficiently . |
| 5 | Her answer , which changed not only Richard 's life but mine too , was , ‘ If you take him it would be the answer to my prayers . ’ |
| 6 | It involved not only states but also TNCs and environment pressure groups . |
| 7 | By the 1180s his network of financial agents reached into almost every shire in England ; his clients ranged from the king of Scotland and the great religious houses to the local parish priests of Lincoln ; and his business interests involved not only mortgages , but also the purchase and sale of discounted bonds , pawnbroking , property development , and commodity brokering . |
| 8 | In Amman on Oct. 4 he met not only King Hussain but also Iraqi First Deputy Premier Taha Yassin Ramadhan . |
| 9 | Here for once a rural industry had been set up regardless of the availability of local labour or any need to create employment ; at first people in the Weald lacked not merely skill but also , it would seem , sufficient incentive . |
| 10 | In a way which strikingly presages the modern socialist welfare-state , divine kings became not only tyrants , but also providers and protectors of their people . |
| 11 | Mr Robertson said there were ‘ serious questions of substance ’ arising from Mr Hurd 's statement , which concerned not just amendment 27 , but the treaty itself . |
| 12 | Rather different were those heads who avoided not only confrontation but also contact , taking refuge in their office and resorting to memoranda rather than face-to-face encounters . |
| 13 | The Commission provoked not only disappointment but anger and resentment by another recommendation to the effect " that the intermarriage of the congenital deaf should be strongly discouraged , as well as the intermarriage of blood relations , especially where any hereditary tendency to deaf mutism prevails in the family . " |
| 14 | She and her staff organized not only school lunches , but refreshments for all games and meetings , sports days , Speech Days , and Dinners and Lunches for the Old Stopfordians and several outside groups . |
| 15 | So , early this century , the regulatory position might be briefly summarised as protecting the minority of people driven into debt to make ends meet ; on the assumption that they faced not only hardship in itself but also particular risk of exploitation by unscrupulous lenders . |
| 16 | His road back to traditionalism could appear the only way to escape a theological disintegration which threatened not just Vatican I , but Chalcedon and Nicaea as well . |
| 17 | This embittered minority included not only Greeks who chose to vote for the Communists , when these were eventually relegalised , but a large number of those who voted for the Socialist Party that Andreas Papandreou created in 1974 . |
| 18 | His funeral cortege was a quarter of a mile long , and the procession included not only members of Oxford University and distinguished public figures , but also representatives of the underprivileged , whose cause he had championed most vigorously . |
| 19 | Lindsay 's supporters included not only Communists , Liberals and a quarter of the Parliamentary Labour Party , but also four future Tory Prime Ministers — Churchill , Eden , MacMillan and the young Edward Heath . |
| 20 | So is the range of the gifts , which included not only items of direct utility to a church , such as the ecclesiastical vestments and bells received by St Cuthbert , but also objects whose chief characteristic was that they had belonged to the king , like Æthelstan 's cap and Edgar 's cloak . |
| 21 | During his Oxford years , Isaac Abendana became known as a resident authority on all matters Jewish and the chief purveyor of Hebrew books , a situation he consolidated by inventing the Oxford diary , which in his original form included not only information relevant to university men but also a yearly essay on some aspect of Jewish religion and culture . |
| 22 | The new Council of Ministers included not only NSF members but also representatives from the National Liberal Party ( NLP ) , the Romanian Ecological Movement ( REM ) and the Agrarian Democratic Party ( ADP ) ; other parties were represented at lower government level . |
| 23 | His catalogue included not only clusters , both open and globular , but also nebulæ and external galaxies . |
| 24 | His Grand Final-winning Manly side of the early Seventies included not only Malcolm Reilly , now the Great Britain coach , but also Bobby Fulton , the leader of next year 's Kangaroos . |
| 25 | Yet the right to dominate , the unquestioned superiority of the bourgeois as a species , implied not only inferiority but ideally an accepted , willing inferiority , as in the relation between man and woman ( which once again symbolises much about the bourgeois world view ) . |
| 26 | Justin came from Nablus in Palestine to Ephesus where , according to his own account ( which may not be plain prose ) , he studied with teachers of several different schools — Stoic , Aristotelian , Pythagorean , Platonist — expecting from the last named not only clarity for his mind but light for his soul . |
| 27 | In our recent study of papers in the mid-1980s we broadened the focus and examined not only rape but also other forms of sexual assault and not only reporting of trials but also other stages , including the search and post-conviction . |
| 28 | A fossil fuel meant any fuel which derived from decayed animal or plant matter : this encompassed not only coal , but also gas and oil . |
| 29 | In the first batch , the Preston by-pass ( 1958 ) and the Lancaster and Maidstone by-passes ( 1960 ) formed not only part of the national motorway pattern but also constituted important local features in the urban environment . |
| 30 | Natural history in the nineteenth century meant not only arguments about the system and man 's place in it ; it also meant great quantities of illustrated books and papers . |