Example sentences of "[not/n't] only [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so . |
| 2 | A detailed planning budget for both capital and operating accounts must now be prepared not only to give you the information you require for your own plans , but also as the main evidence to persuade the Bank Manager to finance your endeavours . |
| 3 | It is not that these judgements should not be made , but that where subjective judgements are made by the teacher she should be aware that this is so and be prepared , not only to give reasons for her judgements , but also to be sufficiently flexible to change them in the light of particular circumstances . |
| 4 | Green was waiting for them , not only to give them lessons but also to sell them additional colours specially to represent the true Lake District tints . |
| 5 | It is important not only to give time but to be genuinely interested in your teenagers and in what interests them . |
| 6 | We learn not only to give and receive love , but to become Love . |
| 7 | In the case of the bookmarks shown in the photograph on the opposite page , I drew a border around the section that encloses the flowers , not only to give them additional definition but also because the parallel lines at the base help to decorate the bookmark . |
| 8 | Overall , the objective is not only to give prominence to the life and work of a highly original and much underrated communist intellectual and novelist , but also to scrutinise the example of Nizan as a guiding principle for action in the present . |
| 9 | He obliged Oswiu not only to give his son , Ecgfrith , aged 10 , as a hostage — Penda sending the boy into the keeping of his queen , Cynewise , in Mercia ( HE III , 24 ) — but also to part with great treasure to Penda and his allies ( HB ch. 65 ) . |
| 10 | Those still with troublesome suspicions should have asked themselves how Pakistan 's fast men could have survived the Cornhill Test series had they been doing something illegal to the ball while on view not only to alert umpires and batting opponents but to thousands of onlookers at the various grounds and before the probing eye of television . |
| 11 | In a seminar limited to 40 participants , not everyone 's favourites can be included ; however , Harold Pinter , whom Mr Torode surprisingly regards as Ms Weldon 's ally , was invited , not only to participate but also to chair a session . |
| 12 | The sonic pulse systems emitted by toothed whales are directional and most species seem to use them not only to detect food but also to make fine distinctions on the basis of the echoes . |
| 13 | This new radar is designed not only to detect and track aircraft and sea-skimming missiles , but it also — ’ |
| 14 | Josiah Wedgwood was a major backer of projects forming links to Staffordshire , not only to cheapen the costs of his intake of clay and flints but also because steadier transit on canals reduced the breakage losses in carrying pottery . |
| 15 | Such payment , furthermore , is thought not only to detract from any generosity that might otherwise characterize her action , but altogether to cast doubt on her motives and her reliability . |
| 16 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 17 | It makes you aware of how much power there exists within yourself , not only to resist oppression , but also to oppress others . |
| 18 | Can an exhaust brake be fitted to my 1989 Range Rover Vogue V8 auto as , on long declines it will gain enough momentum not only to rip the skin off a rice pudding , but take the table and chairs with it . |
| 19 | He started not only to print his addresses or charges but to review books of general interest ; to consider a book on diplomacy and war , and not to lose a chance of holding up the character of Asquith to admiration , or to contrast the laziness and drift of Stanley Baldwin as prime minister with the crusading fervour of a Gladstone . |
| 20 | On the first day of the war the prime minister , Yildirim Akbulut , asked the national assembly not only to sanction the use of the bases for American bombing raids but also to allow the Turkish armed forces themselves to go on the offensive . |
| 21 | Given the evidence that punishment which immediately precedes a forbidden act ( rarely possible for busy parents ) maximizes resistance to temptation and minimizes guilt , you might try not only to sanction misbehaviour promptly but ( where possible ) forestall your child 's action just as it gets under way . |
| 22 | Natural and ? or artificial rocks can be used , not only to decorate the tank , but also to conceal the technical equipment . |
| 23 | Real prosperity can only be achieved if every South African is free , not only to cast an equal vote , but to participate in wealth creation . |
| 24 | This serves not only to allow the University to contribute towards the revitalization of the economic life of the province , but to develop courses that relate directly to contemporary society . |
| 25 | The dolphin 's echolocation system is good enough not only to allow it to find fish but also to select its favourite food . |
| 26 | Essentially what all are saying is that a right to consent to medical treatment , whether required under the common law ( see Gillick 's case ) or under statute ( section 8 ) , must and does carry with it a right not only to refuse consent to treatment , but to refuse the treatment itself . |
| 27 | Is the Minister interested in building homes in Britain not only to tackle the problem of homelessness but to allow peple to move within the private sector ? |
| 28 | Nothing daunted , Havelock Wilson , having just returned from his foreign travels , accompanied by Tom Mann , recently released from gaol following a term of imprisonment for inciting troops to mutiny , set off to visit four or five provincial ports , not only to appeal for funds for the London men , but also to persuade workers at these ports to join in and make the strike a national one . |
| 29 | The need is not only to retain what is worthwhile of the old , but also to ensure the new is sympathetic . |
| 30 | At a certain stage in the analysis it becomes necessary not only to define each entity but also to record the relevant attributes of each entity . |