Example sentences of "[noun] [not/n't] only [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These kids not only knew about rock'n'roll , they could play it . |
| 2 | At an individual or party level discourses not only mediate between material conditions and their interpretation but can organise experience itself . |
| 3 | MacLauchlan not only recorded with precision details of many ancient monuments , some of which have since been destroyed , but also provided accompanying texts based on his sound observations . |
| 4 | However , ta'kwakomena not only refers to responsibility , but to personal autonomy in general . |
| 5 | His wit not only aimed to amuse but also to reform . |
| 6 | Graduates not only contribute to industry with their knowledge and practical experience of current practice and methodologies , they bring new ideas to that industry . |
| 7 | Barbara not only acted as secretary to a succession of senior managers including Harold Worland and Raymond Anderson , she also carried out the secretarial work for the Board for many years . |
| 8 | When the Israelite desert tribes entered Canaan , they found a land not only flowing with milk and honey , but full of weeping and laughter in its religious rituals , quite different from anything they had known . |
| 9 | The quality of anal continence was assessed clinically by two doctors who questioned each patient about faecal leakage by day and during sleep , the need to wear a pad , anal soreness , the ability to defer defecation for longer than 15 minutes , and the ability not only to discriminate between flatus and faeces but to release flatus safely without having to visit the lavatory . |
| 10 | The culture not only allows for change , usually incremental but occasionally radical , but itself can and does change . |
| 11 | Earth not only grew by aggregation from a cloud of particles , but by collisions with other cosmic matter . |