Example sentences of "[verb] not only [noun sg] but [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 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Objects , or models of them , may be used to teach not only vocabulary but structure as well . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( 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 . ) |