Example sentences of "[to-vb] not [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus since the Act of 1986 came into force local authorities such as this council are obliged to secure not merely accommodation , but suitable accommodation . |
| 2 | This scheme was set up to provide not only relief for carers but also stimulation and companionship for sufferers who live alone . |
| 3 | There is an urgent need for the NHS Review to focus on the development of training at all levels to ensure that properly qualified , trained staff are available to provide not only hospital care , but support and rehabilitative care for increased numbers of patients . |
| 4 | In early November Coleridge and the Wordsworths , whose deep and intuitive friendship had begun by now to exclude not only Sara but even Tom Poole , set out on the road to Porlock which Coleridge had taken the previous month . |
| 5 | Indeed such is the pressure for adequate car parking that there are a surprising number of cases where brewing companies have applied for permission to demolish not only outbuildings but adjacent cottages , some of them listed … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ She said immigration was an issue which ought to be raised because it was going to affect not only employment and social service benefits , but also cause homelessness . |
| 7 | The incidence and patterning of illness among members of a family is interlocked with the emotional interior of the family : thus another logical corollary of women 's pivotal position in this unit is their capacity to affect not only health , but ill-health . |
| 8 | I share the desire of my hon. Friend the Member for Crewe and Nantwich ( Mrs. Dunwoody ) in wanting to see not just passenger traffic but freight able to make a direct contact with the channel tunnel from all parts of the country , especially the north and the north-west . |
| 9 | So for this year I made the computerisation funds part of the wider fund available to FHSAs to support not merely computerisation but the extension of ancillary staff in general practice and the development of new accommodation facilities for primary health care . |
| 10 | In Australia the scope of the national energy conservation programme has been broadened to include not only petrol saving but the conservation of all forms of energy . |
| 11 | His father had risen to a leading position in the town of Ottery from a background of extreme poverty , and Coleridge 's surviving brothers were all gifted men whose descendants were to include not only scholars and bishops , but the Lord Chief Justice of England . |
| 12 | ‘ Concentrations ’ are widely defined to include not only mergers in the strict sense , but any transaction which results in the acquisition of direct or indirect control of all or part of an undertaking . |
| 13 | I am doubtful if it was wise to include not only dialogue but descriptive passages in a sort of sub-Chaucerian English : for instance , ‘ Grammercy , brother ! |
| 14 | For an historical re-issue of this nature , I believe it 's essential to include not only details of the original matrices but also reasonably accurate dates for the recordings . |
| 15 | Thus they have to include not only terms that are covered by existing classification systems such as ICD9 ( diagnoses ) and OPCS4 ( Office of Population Censuses and Surveys classification of surgical operations and procedures ) but also the many others not so classified — for example , clinical , social , and family history ; symptoms and signs ; diagnostic and laboratory procedures ; operative and non-operative procedures ; and drugs and appliances . |
| 16 | The so-called " multinational force " , mobilized following the lead of the USA , had been widened by the end of August to include not only troops from certain Arab countries [ see above ] , but also some actual or promised military participation from the UK , France , several other West European countries , Canada , Australia , Pakistan and Bangladesh [ see below ] . |
| 17 | Catholics were rebels who only wanted to destroy not only Northern Ireland but also the Protestant nature of the rest of the British Isles and the only thing which maintained civil liberties was adherence to the Protestant faith . |
| 18 | The report claimed that events in Mazar-i-Sharif were indicative of a wider ethnic divide between Pashtuns and non-Pashtuns , which was threatening to split not only Najibullah 's ruling Hezb-e Watan , but also the mujaheddin . |
| 19 | From Boppard you can easily helm your car to view not just panorama after wonderful river panorama , but to great sights such as the Loreley rock , form which a rogue mermaid was said to have lured sailors to their death . |
| 20 | The Burton Group came to own not just Burtons but Debenhams , Principles , Top Shop , Evans , Champion Sports and Radius — an awful lot of the average high street . |
| 21 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG is expanding its Sipra range of IBM Corp mid-range-to-Unix migration software to cover not only System 36s , but also the AS/400 . |
| 22 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG is expanding its Sipra range of IBM Corp mid-range-to-Unix migration software to cover not only System 36s , but also the AS/400 . |
| 23 | Intermediate Treatment is meant to help not only children in trouble but those at risk of getting into trouble . |
| 24 | And the new order was to comprehend not only labour , not only working classes , but the productive classes . |
| 25 | Undeterred by this ill omen , he set forth , intending to win not only fame and fortune but lands as well , which he had agreed to share equally with Philip . |
| 26 | She seems to favour not only schemes that guarantee groups like blacks access to fair voting procedures , but also ones that are skewed to make the achievement of ‘ group ’ political goals more likely . |
| 27 | Officially it remains in force , but an attack in the official press suggests hard-line ideologues want to criticise not only Mr Zhao but also the economic policies he helped to implement . |
| 28 | Western governments should be prepared to protect not only writers , but publishers and bookshops ; and Britain should get rid of its own unnecessary curbs on free speech , the laws against blaspheming Christianity . |
| 29 | For Gertrude Jekyll the arts and crafts creed of unity of the arts was not just an artistic concept but fundamental to her special art and skills in home-making which she passed on to Lutyens , inspiring him to build not just houses but homes . |
| 30 | Serbia and Montenegro proposed an amendment to permit not only republics but also " nations " to remain within Yugoslavia , a formula under which Serbs in Croatia could elect to join this entity . |