Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind this privileging of popular culture lies not only an identification with the oppressed masses , but also a sense that Latin-American reality is radically different from that of the developed , industrial West , as well as a search for an identity whose roots are to be found in Latin America itself . |
| 2 | A lease , because of the involvement of the landlord ( who is not or who at any rate in his capacity as landlord is not a member of the firm ) , needs not only an appropriate declaration that the named partners joined as lessees hold the term on trust but also : ( a ) a declaration that possession of the demised premises by partners who are not trustees of the lease shall not by itself constitute a breach of the usual covenants against parting with or sharing possession ; ( b ) a provision which dispenses with the landlord 's consent ( or makes it automatic ) to an assignment of the demised premises to partners other than the original lessees or to the vesting of the premises in new trustees for the firm . |
| 3 | That represents not merely an intensification of the use of the line but a change in its character . |
| 4 | Creating synthetic chemical structures that can reproduce themselves represents not only an intriguing intellectual challenge , but also a possible way of illuminating one of the most basic processes of a living cell . |
| 5 | ‘ Black ’ , here , denotes not simply an often successful political alliance against racism . |
| 6 | However , progress in a similar way towards an understanding of the mechanics of weathering processes ( e.g. Curtis , 1976 ) requires not only an adequate knowledge of chemistry and of exchange reactions , but also of processes at a different scale . |
| 7 | In its full sense it connotes not merely an acquaintance with a certain number of terms , or the power of spelling these terms without gross mistakes . |
| 8 | For those with a taste for the unusual and exotic , Pavilions in Peril remains not only an engaging armchair read , but an explorer 's guide to a forgotten world of follies and garden temples . |
| 9 | She is referring particularly to work with younger children , and suggests not only an area for creative play but , in more structured situations , a library with low cupboards containing a variety of books ( some homemade ) and ‘ in another part of the room … low cupboards containing many kinds of commercial materials , such as peg boards , nesting toys , puzzles , discs for the development of discrimination and hand and finger dexterity ’ . |