Example sentences of "[vb past] not [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1970s and 1980s have seen a series of fundamental economic problems beset not only British but also international capitalism . |
| 2 | UK manufacturer Input has gone a step further and coiled not just one , but two 5m flexible cables into the same body , and instead of just the one socket on the body of the reel , they have but another socket on the end of the second trailing lead . |
| 3 | He gave in that connection some instances from The Rock , which he described not so much as a play as a revue , a word he pronounced in the French manner . |
| 4 | Gould 's impatience and his disappointment stemmed not so much from the fruits of his collecting , but from the frustration of inactivity and the miscarriage of a good project . |
| 5 | Consequently , rather than viewing the totalitarian structure of the PCF as a source of oppression , it is more productive to view it as the chosen institution within which Nizan found not only political asylum but also emotional and moral equilibrium , a refuge in short which provided him with a necessary disciplined working environment . |
| 6 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 7 | The study by Butler and his associates is the most important in this area because they found not only that health visiting favoured no one class but also when a more sensitive analysis of the data was made that took account of over-crowding , house amenities , parental education , as well as father 's occupation , they found that the lower socio-economic groups received more health visiting . |
| 8 | ‘ His gratification was almost unbounded when on arriving at the Belts of the Murray he found not only numerous new Species but new forms of Birds . |
| 9 | Diatryma seems , after all , to have been a meat-eater , its head reinforced not so much to cut through meat as to cope with the sudden shocks when its bite hit bone . |
| 10 | All around her were the smiling faces so lacking at Oreste 's birth , for Ellen and William could not match the pride of Ferdinando nor the ecstasy of Pen , and she felt loved and treasured not pitifully alone and bereft . |
| 11 | In those countries she visited not only ancient monuments and museums but also factories , prisons , and orphanages , in which she took a keen interest . |
| 12 | Broadcasting policy involved not only state-controlled or public service radio and television but also the cinema , the press and advertising : the state aided financially , partly regulated , and even owned film studios , newspapers and advertising agencies — but , since the Liberation , the mentality in all three was worlds removed from the bureaucratic tradition of state broadcasting . |
| 13 | The history of the mammals in the Tertiary involved not only this one major diversification , but several , with major extinctions between , so that the largest mammals of the earlier parts of the Tertiary are not related to the large mammals of the Recent . |
| 14 | The result is a simple , self-contained operation that protects the environment efficiently , and brings benefits to all parties involved not least those in the community who have been at risk from inadequate or illegal disposal of used hypodermic needles and other hazardous waste . |
| 15 | Cromwell returned from Ireland in 1650 to lead the English resistance to the threat from the Scots , and by his subsequent victories at the battles of Dunbar and Worcester he thwarted not only those who wished to see the return of the house of Stuart , but also those who sought to impose a Presbyterian church on the English people . |
| 16 | It was at this moment , as Franca recalled it afterwards , that the balance suddenly tilted in the other direction , and what had seemed sensible and inevitable suddenly began to seem trivial and irrelevant , and what had seemed impossible became not only possible but essential . |
| 17 | The back scooped down to 4 inches below my waist , but the weight of the beads stretched the base fabric and on the dress rehearsal , much to my embarrassment , the backless gown inched its way over my buttocks until it became not only backless but bottomless . |
| 18 | A wide range of so-called sexual sicknesses was diagnosed , Instead of masturbation being classified as wrong or harmful , as it had been in Victorian times , it became not only permissible but obligatory by the new standards . |
| 19 | The agents or lecturers became not only dramatic figures in the theatre of the public meeting but combatants , for example on the occasions when Thompson and some colleagues debated the West Indian Peter Borthwick and associates at Glasgow in 1833 and in 1836 the American defender of slavery , Breckinridge . |
| 20 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
| 21 | This operation proved successful and , in July 1977 , the DES announced not only that teacher training would continue at Swansea but also revised teacher-training figures for Wales whereby the number of places in 1981 would be increased by 50 to 2,900 . |
| 22 | The issue was sexual not physical abuse — a problem that had been gaining momentum in terms of recognition and response throughout the 1980s — and it also concerned not just one child tragedy but many . |
| 23 | His twenty-rod patch cost him twelve shillings a year in rent and produced not only sufficient potatoes to feed the family from late May round to April the following year , but also a variety of other vegetables . |
| 24 | His resignation arose not so much because an audience was to be debarred from geology , as because women were to be debarred from the audience . |
| 25 | The real restriction of his freedom arose not so much from the restraints of his colleagues as front the fact that his Plymouth speech inevitably created an election atmosphere which he found difficult to control . |
| 26 | Both events revealed not only deep divisions among Member States , but also fundamentally flawed policies . |
| 27 | It was a mercy we did , for X-rays revealed not only back trouble , but a massive abdominal aorta aneurysm . |
| 28 | On the south side of the High Road , east of Linden House , was Campden House and two inns , ‘ George IV ’ and the ‘ Prince of Wales ’ , with an area behind them , east of Dukes Avenue — the Glebe Estate — referred to as ‘ New Chiswick ’ estate containing artisan dwellings built for the workers at local manufactories , such as ‘ Thornycroft 's ’ and Dan and Charles Mason 's ‘ Chiswick Soap Company ’ which manufactured not only soft soap , but furniture and metal polish . |
| 29 | Chicherin believed not only that serfdom was immoral but also that it was acting as a brake on the economy , that it could not be justified as a bastion against pauperism , and finally — a somewhat unusual argument — that it entailed the improper transference to the gentry of responsibilities which ought to be exercised by the state . |
| 30 | The Hadow Report of 1926 , and its successor the Spens Report of 1938 , had envisaged that not all children would want or could profit from the kind of schooling which was available in Cardiff in the 1930s or in Thame in the 1890s , and that different kinds of pupils deserved not only various curricula but also distinctive types of school . |