Example sentences of "but also [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he actually put his foot down and said , ‘ No , I think that 's ridiculous ’ , everyone shut up and listened , and I feel that this was the first time that he realised that he did have the powers of leadership , not only on stage but also off stage . ’ |
| 2 | It is also possible , and indeed desirable , to inhibit any unwanted habits and tendencies , not only before an action takes place but also during any given activity . |
| 3 | But also during that time there was Martin Luther King and the music and everything . |
| 4 | As for the G protein-linked receptors , signal transduction through tyrosine kinase receptors is an energy-requiring process because ATP is consumed not only as the two receptors interact ( autophosphorylation ) , but also during the subsequent phosphorylation of PLC- γ 1 ( Box 2 ) . |
| 5 | Protection from the wind is not only useful during the winter , but also during the early spring when young plant growth is emerging . |
| 6 | He took a great interest in young people , not only during the course of his duties at the Salzburg Mozarteum , but also beyond that . |
| 7 | He had found himself looking into the infinitely complex growth of stem and grass and leaf and tendril and fine twig that covered the moor in a thick springy upholstery , but also beyond this , through and beside this , into clear darkness . |
| 8 | They are indicative not only of the strength of current Roman catholic social rules and sense of obedience on specified issues at the level of popular religion , but also of the direct power of the hierarchy operating through the state in affairs they considered sacred . |
| 9 | This is one of the effects of lack of oxygen , but also of dehydration at the end of a long day 's excitement . |
| 10 | So the flight from consciousness is the flight from any grasp on the intrinsic nature of any properties — not merely , as with Russell , of properties in the external world , but also of the features in our experience . |
| 11 | His delicious Pas des Légumes performed at a special performance to mark the market 's passing brought to mind the long history not only of the ‘ fruit and veg ’ , but also of Harlequin , Columbine and their colleagues of the commedia dell'arte , inhabitants for many years of the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , and the King 's Theatre , Drury Lane , where the first ballets d'action were staged . |
| 12 | The enormities of the Hitler regime and the Holocaust opened up many fields of research into the workings of minds not only of fanatics but also of the mentally disoriented or diseased . |
| 13 | The tenth anniversary of the civil rights movement was celebrated on 1 January 1979 amidst a growing alienation of the minority Catholic population , a rising toll not only of violence but also of poverty and unemployment in the six counties , and an increasingly unbridgeable gulf within the majority Protestant ranks , with the Official Unionists and the so-called Democratic Unionists under the Revd Ian Paisley vying with one another in intransigence and extremism . |
| 14 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 15 | Charlie Mears emerges as the reincarnation not only of a galley slave from ancient Egypt , but also of a seaman from the Vinland Sagas . |
| 16 | Lévy-Bruhl ’ , but also of folklorists and anthropologists such as Sir E. B. Tylor , Robertson Smith , Miss Harrison , Miss Weston , A. B. Cook , F. M. Cornford , le Dr. Rendel Harris , Hartland , Elliot Smith , Gilbert Murray , et d'autres encore , — pour ne rien dire d'observateurs tels que Codrington , Spencer et Gillan [ sic ] Hewett , [ sic ] qui ont étudié les races primitives aux quatre coins de l'Empire . ’ |
| 17 | Lewis had got to know him because he was a frequent visitor to Oxford , anxious to get a job in the Oxford English Faculty , and a friend not only of Tolkien but also of Nevill Coghill . |
| 18 | He enhances our sense not only of the poets ' universe — me cosmology of Dante and Milton , for example — but also of the symbolism used by painters and architects . |
| 19 | Eventually , the song becomes a real-time simulation of a locked groove , an out-of-control roller-coaster of dread but also of resilience : ‘ And the Mercy Seat is waiting/And I think my head is burning/And in a way I 'm yearning/To be done with all this measuring of proof/An eye for an eye/And a tooth for a tooth/And anyway I told the truth/And I 'm not afraid to die . ’ |
| 20 | As far as Britain was concerned , the failure showed the limits not only of British power , but also of the Anglo-American special relationship . |
| 21 | This meant that the new ‘ natural philosophy ’ stood in need , not merely of practical development , but also of intellectual justification and explanation . |
| 22 | This has been the result partly of monetary deflation , but also of a muddle-headed confusion about the meaning of economy — namely . |
| 23 | Memories become bitter-sweet events in our lives that remind us of our grief but also of the pleasure of the relationship we had . |
| 24 | Not only of its fastnesses and vastnesses but also of the minute detailing of existence upon our own planet : its climatic patterns and the plate tectonics that give rise to earthquakes , volcanoes , fold mountains and the oceanic ridges . |
| 25 | Bald , and with an attenuated El Greco face , he looked like a victim of chemotherapy — but also of a Transylvanian vampire , for his chin and neck were covered with what seemed to be bite marks . |
| 26 | I was bitterly ashamed of what I was doing , or letting people do to me , but also of course I got to like it , and even crave it , in a manner of speaking . |
| 27 | To the south lay a country whose king was trying to establish an English Catholic church , in the teeth not only of the papists but also of those who were much more convinced Protestants . |
| 28 | It was a far-reaching and radical attack on the powers of the legitimately established authority , not only of those who ruled kingdoms but also of those who ruled localities . |
| 29 | The end-of-term jollity was illustrative of the relaxed atmosphere that has pervaded the final week of the Liberal Democrat election drive — a product not merely of the light-headedness of exhaustion but also of the undoubted success of what has been a well-judged campaign . |
| 30 | A composer who — to exaggerate only a little — was principally remembered for Il Barbiere di Siviglia is now seen as the author not only of other fine comic operas but also of serious operas such as Tancredi , Otello , Maometto II and , of course , Guillaume Tell . |