Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] 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 | So , the photo-sensitive cells lining it receive not just an impression of light or darkness , but a crude image of the scene . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He wanted not only an on-screen separating , but one off to match . |
| 7 | 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 . |