Example sentences of "not [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be a layman , even to be anticlerical , is not necessarily to be irreligious . |
| 2 | To be anti-suffrage was not necessarily to be anti-feminist ; many opponents of the suffrage , men and women , campaigned for better educational opportunities for women and supported their work at the local level . |
| 3 | Not enough to be offensive , but enough to make the older woman sparkle in return . |
| 4 | It is not enough to be able to translate a topic into themes : ability to see a theme in turn translated back into action is a necessity . |
| 5 | Certainly not as bright as here , er sufficient light for me to be able to see that there were people in there and to differentiate between a man and a woman but er at that time not enough to be able to clearly define anybody . |
| 6 | In animal studies , UV-B radiation has been shown not only to be carcinogenic , but also to alter the response of the immunological system ; this results in impeded recognition of a cancerous tumour as a foreign body . |
| 7 | The films were not only to be self-produced and self-distributed , but self-financed as well . |
| 8 | Together with the Temiskamming and Northern Ontario Railway it also opened up northern Ontario , which was discovered not only to be good for settlement , but also to possess staggering mineral resources in copper , gold , silver , zinc , and cobalt . |
| 9 | They dismay the big auctioneers , such as Jacques Tajan of Ader-Tajan , and the modern paintings specialist Guy Loudmer , who believe competition from foreign countries not only to be beneficial to native companies of their importance , but also essential for Paris 's development as an art market . |
| 10 | If we do it correctly , the horse learns not only to be confident with us and to respect us but also to like us . |
| 11 | The following range of services have been chosen not only to be relevant to members in the course of pursuing their professional objectives , but also to be of interest on a more personal level . |
| 12 | Already the atmosphere is such that companies such as Chubb Insurance Company of Europe is advising client directors to make concerted efforts not only to be familiar with all aspects of their companies ' activities but to take prudent action at the boardroom table : right down to ensuring all documents are prepared ‘ with the expectation that they will be scrutinised at a later date by others who are looking for evidence of wrongdoings ’ , that detailed minutes are taken , and that they should vote against any proposal rather than abstain because abstention could be construed as approval . |
| 13 | that would be of interest , sort of allow them not only to be interested but would , would show them a variety of graphic design based on similar ideas . |
| 14 | Truths of geometry can be proved , and so known not only to be true but also to be necessarily true . |
| 15 | The accusations were flat and uniform , although what is truly remarkable is that the youth of the nation were believed not only to be free of all discipline , but also excessively affluent . |
| 16 | It is necessary for the nurse not only to be concerned with the outcome of the action but she must understand its origins and the process of carrying it out . |
| 17 | To avoid considering these consequences on the grounds that they were not intended is not only to be blind to much human suffering , but also to accept the relative positions of intention compared with indifference on a common-sense hierarchy of immorality . |
| 18 | ‘ I am one of those people ’ , he has said in the past , ’ who must take exercise not only to be able to give of my best , but just to survive — I mean , I ca n't function without it . |
| 19 | We need not only to be able to swim in a sea of uncertainty but also to resist panic when we get out of our depth . |
| 20 | Not only in being able to select a group where perhaps we can justify more aggressive therapy , or even a group that perhaps we should just treat palatally but also in the future with the development of anti- angiogenic therapy . |
| 21 | Liza appeared not merely to be uninterested in her child , but positively to reject the dark-haired , red-faced bundle who Harriet felt more certain than ever had not been fathered by John Carrow . |
| 22 | To be a bourgeois was not merely to be superior , but also to have demonstrated moral qualities equivalent to the old puritan ones . |
| 23 | As Terry Dennett says , the point is not just to be visible as a human being but t make the process visible . |
| 24 | She began to understand that her working clothes had not just to be fashionable but also to cope with the vagaries of walkabouts , the intrusion of photographers and her ever-present enemy , the wind . |
| 25 | Her job might be one of considerable stress and strain , but she really had been incredibly lucky , Laura told herself , not just in being able to afford to buy a penthouse apartment in this large , architectually prestigious warehouse development beside the river at Wapping , but also in managing to persuade her old school-friend Julie to come and share the apartment with her . |
| 26 | Not just by being friendly , but by talking your language . |
| 27 | It 's not possibly to be obvious to say you write an estimate of financial communication , but the first year against the should say this is brought up for review . |
| 28 | You 're not here to be brave . |
| 29 | ‘ We are not there to be moral arbiters . ’ |
| 30 | The only scope for progress was to find harder abrasives , devise more effective tools for applying them and not least to be prepared to invest more time , something which depended on more powerful patronage . |