Example sentences of "[vb past] not [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He wanted not only an on-screen separating , but one off to match . |