Example sentences of "[v-ing] not [adv] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apparent disadvantage of the scheme — the fact that he was going to end up poisoning not only Elinor and Donald but also most of the inhabitants of Maple Drive , including what remained of Donald 's family ( Arfur was notoriously fond of ‘ Daddy 's ‘ Ine ’ ) was outweighed by its brilliantly direct character . |
| 2 | These break away in storms and drift , catching not only fish but trapping and drowning seals , dolphins and other mammals . |
| 3 | On Dartmoor , they exist on the open moorland , demarcating not only parishes but also areas of grazing attached to particular villages . |
| 4 | At Slapton , as on not a few other manors , a degree of confusion is understandable , for tenures were complex , embracing not only freeholds and copyholds — mostly heritable , though including a few for lives — but also what were described in a survey made in 1548 as ‘ The Farme Landes ’ , which were probably parcels of the demesne that were let by copy of court roll , the larger ones for fifteen years , the rest at will . |
| 5 | A serious accident on the Kingston Bridge would mean evacuating not only hotels and other buildings , but the region 's office complex and Strathclyde police headquarters . |
| 6 | To master the details of bankruptcy law was a task requiring not only skill but assiduous and prolonged attention . |
| 7 | An account he submitted for payment covering the period 9 December 1541 to 12 June 1543 ( Arber II.50–60 ) is admirably detailed , concerning not only quantities and costs of proclamations but also special purchases of books for the king , with the style and price of binding . |
| 8 | The mixer is not just a bulking food , but an essential part of the dogs diet containing not only carbohydrates but important vitamins , proteins and minerals . |
| 9 | This inevitably leads to a climate in which the likelihood of giving not only money but also one 's time is reduced . |
| 10 | This approach follows van Dijk ( 1977 ) in regarding not only sentences but also textuality as the proper study of linguistics . |
| 11 | The movement was arguably a result of cultural changes affecting not only Britain but America and Europe . |
| 12 | The probability is , therefore , that a wide-ranging set of alliances was entered into in the period immediately preceding the final conflict between Cadwallon and Eadwine , involving not only Cadwallon and his allies , including Penda , but the Bernician royal exiles with likely Pictish and Scottish support , possibly even contingents of Irish troops . |
| 13 | When ‘ English ’ first came on the scene in the nineteenth century , it was precisely as a form of Cultural Studies , involving not only language and literature , but history , geography , philosophy , and so on , requiring the first professors of the subject to be polymaths . |
| 14 | We have been arguing here for a view of the state in which governments are managing not only class and social relations but also individuals . |
| 15 | In 1820 he was sent to Fort Augustus , where the locks of the Caledonian canal were under construction , and , as his father was well known to everyone there , he was given the opportunity of learning not only masonry but all the branches of civil and mechanical engineering that were being practised at that time . |
| 16 | Attention should increasingly be focused on how resources are used — the effectiveness and appropriateness of health service interventions — studying the distribution of indications for health care as a means of increasing not only efficiency but also equity within the context of democratically driven priorities . |
| 17 | A further outbreak of strikes at the end of September , initiated by printers in Moscow , spread like wildfire , paralysing not only Moscow and St Petersburg but many provincial cities as well . |