Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [not/n't] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The credit for securing this freedom belongs not so much to the legislators ( many of whom now profess themselves appalled at developments ) but to a few courageous publishers who risked jail by inviting juries to take a stand against censorship , and to the ineptitude and corruption of police enforcement . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Normally , the ingenuity which requires protection is in the circuitry represented by the patterns formed by the conducting materials , but the regulations are wider in the sense that they will apply in situations where the ingenuity lies not so much in the horizontal patterns themselves but in the vertical arrangement of layers . |
| 5 | For its part , violence involves not just physical force , injuring or annihilating persons , but also |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Where such factors are present one would expect the crime to attract not only profit-maximising individuals but also profit-maximising firms . |
| 8 | From this perspective , the remedy lies not so much in providing personal help as in attempting to reconcile the activities of women and the values of society more effectively . |
| 9 | Thereafter , and notably from the 1780s , the company had to make recourse to fresh stock issue not so much to raise fresh working capital but to release it from debt . |
| 10 | Furthermore , there would be scope for an argument that the plaintiff 's loss flowed not so much from the inclusion of the non-commercial venture restriction in the domestic legislation as from the unduly narrow interpretation of that phrase by the domestic courts . |
| 11 | The result distorts not just British representation but the make-up of the whole parliament . |
| 12 | When you say it cost me an arm and a leg , you 're thinking in word pictures if you like it 's a metaphor and er in the in the picture it 's by the er Long John by the Long John Silver figure having not only one leg , but also one arm as well . |
| 13 | Boswell conducted his invasiveness while Johnson was still alive , and even though the result seems not overtly lurid , I doubt whether many areas of Johnson remained uncombed . |
| 14 | Accordingly , where the landlord proves an intention to redevelop not immediately capable of implementation , the court will order the inclusion of a break-clause exercisable when the landlord is ready . |
| 15 | Fraud does not always negative consent . |
| 16 | To some military theorists such as Guibert , who was influenced by Rousseau and to whom the soldier of republican Rome was an ideal , formations of this kind seemed not merely useful in a military sense but possible signposts towards a different political system and society . |
| 17 | Secondly , mirroring the extension of the law 's concern to notions of social harm has been a widening of the conceptions of deviant and enforcer to include not only individual actors but also organizations . |
| 18 | It was very carefully calculated to maximise support for Iraq in the Middle East , since all the conditions for an Iraqi withdrawal look not only reasonable but also desirable to ordinary Arabs . |
| 19 | Programmers began to realize that the effectiveness of their work depended not so much on the particular format they had adopted as on the disciplined care with which their work was planned and executed . |
| 20 | This view of assessment concentrates not so much on end of unit tests nor results in an external exam ( such as in former S.C.E. ‘ O ’ Grades ) , but on assessment as an on-going and integral part of the learning and teaching process . |
| 21 | The former is published quarterly in the United Kingdom by the Library Association and its coverage includes not only most of the main social science journals but also serious weekly magazines , such as The Economist and New Society , and also The Times , the Guardian and other such popular publications ; the latter is an American publication covering everything from books to articles and reports on all sorts of economic and social affairs published worldwide in the English language . |
| 22 | be aware of the need to provide not just on-the-spot support but , where possible , support that will have a lasting effect on classroom practice ; |
| 23 | His wife , who had miscarried he was no longer sure how many times , had stayed in bed two or three weeks without setting her foot to the floor on every occasion , and had then spent a week or so more , he remembered , on a sofa in the drawing-room looking not merely untouchable but as if even a heavy footstep across the hall might shatter her into pieces like spun glass . |
| 24 | Charles was acting quite legally in initiating the quo warranto proceedings against borough charters , and his primary aim appears not so much to achieve royal control over the borough electorate — boroughs which did not return MPs were also subject to attack — but rather to drive Nonconformists and their sympathisers out of the local magistracy and to secure the empanelment of juries who would be prepared to act against the Dissenters . |
| 25 | Throughout the year the Committee has continued to meet on a fortnightly basis to consider not just those issues referred to above but many others . |
| 26 | Accordingly , the PNP resource package included not merely extra staff of varying levels of experience and seniority , but also a particular category of extra staff — the PNP coordinator — appointed to a specific managerial role . |
| 27 | Such overseas business represented not so much diversification as a natural development of banking facilities to meet customer needs . |
| 28 | However , the main point does not so much concern the question of whether seasonal usage would be constant or not , or whether costs are rising or falling or staying constant , but that the cash payments method does not record the cost of carrying out the activities for the year . |
| 29 | A medical textbook does n't immediately disenchant us ; here the heart is mapped like the London Underground . |
| 30 | The denial does not so much refute prospective criticism as pay danegeld to it . |