Example sentences of "[verb] not only [noun sg] [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On economic development , we have failed to pursue the policies of partnership between Government and industry which are commonplace elsewhere in Europe and which involve not only management but trade unions and workers ' representatives in a much more positive way than anything that has happened under this Government . |
| 2 | Efficiency incorporates not only quantity and quality of achievement but also preservation of his own safety and health and that of others who might be involved as working partners , passengers or the general public in the neighbourhood . |
| 3 | Does the Secretary of State agree that , to obtain a balanced view , we must consider not only unemployment but employment and self-employment , which grew steadily during the 1980s under the Government and is set to grow further in the 1990s under the same Government ? |
| 4 | The foal receives not only affection and security from its mother , but also acceptance . |
| 5 | Undeterred by this ill omen , he set forth , intending to win not only fame and fortune but lands as well , which he had agreed to share equally with Philip . |
| 6 | The range of disciplines includes not only philosophy and history but a broad spread of modern European languages and literature . |
| 7 | Obtaining any professional qualification requires not only vocation and commitment , but also great investment in both personal and financial terms . |
| 8 | His position as fly-half requires not only skill and vision , but also confidence and experience . |
| 9 | It takes not only effort but courage of another kind to love again after a certain age , when the body may be far from beautiful — and a sense of humour , too . |
| 10 | The size of one and a half football pitches when it 's completed in November next year it will have not only space but air conditioning , an education room and laboratory for the conservationists . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | By the time of the Middle Ages when the two swords of the secular and the spiritual were sheathed together in ruling Christendom , the official spokesman for orthodoxy , St Thomas Aquinas , could declare : ‘ Heresy is a sin which merits not only excommunication but death , for it is worse to corrupt the faith which is the life of the soul than to issue counterfeit coins which administer to the secular life . |
| 13 | Objects , or models of them , may be used to teach not only vocabulary but structure as well . |
| 14 | It was Mike Nichols 's point of view that you should always be close to yourself in the most personal way to convey not only truth but humour . |
| 15 | The pupil has to learn not only history and geography , but also how to relate to teachers and fellow students : for example , when it is acceptable to claim the attention of the teacher and to ask questions , or when conversation with friends is allowed . |
| 16 | Stores were distributed in pony treks that carried not only ammunition and food but also mail and the force 's own newspaper . |
| 17 | ( As a matter of fact , nature imitates not only art but examination questions ; not long ago a man of my acquaintance shot his wife in the leg , in the shrubbery , thinking she was a rabbit . ) |
| 18 | We hold it in our arms , and it learns not only discipline and respect for us but also reassurance and security from our close body contact . |
| 19 | On the French side although the Communists failed to form a government and were thus not in a position to change French policy towards Vietnam — whether they would have wanted to do so is not quite so clear — the impasse between them and the MRP had resulted in a caretaker government under the veteran Socialist party leader , Leon Blum ; and Blum , calling for an end to equivocation and an absolutely clear definition of policy , had urged not only confidence and friendship but ‘ sincere agreement ’ on the basis of Vietnamese independence . |