Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] only [verb] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I would say to you is that the very small primary schools I not only have to doubt the financial viability , but I personally sometimes would doubt that the National Curriculum can be delivered to a school where you 've got an age range between five and eleven and you 've only got thirty or forty children , and that is a personal point of view , which I have , erm having seen many of our schools , and I believe that the problems that some of our large urban schools have , with thirty to a class packed in , is also something we should address and give careful thought to when we are resourcing education . |
| 2 | There was one member whose sight was so bad that when she read she not only had to prop a second pair of spectacles on top of the pair already resting on her nose , but also had to stand under the standard lamp almost pressed against the light bulb . |
| 3 | Her hands moved to unbutton his shirt , and , that done , she not only wanted to stroke the golden down on his body , but to see that body , to see him . |
| 4 | To holiday here you not only get to feel a lot closer to God 's earth , but you also get to feel closer to your fellow man , and there 's not many places that make you feel like that ! |
| 5 | Because in fact to do all of our assignments you probably only need to do an average of one a day . |
| 6 | We nevertheless only need to postulate the forcible imposition of that inner band of Minoan trading settlements — not the whole trading empire . |
| 7 | To these people , we not only have to offer an attractive package but to be more visible , especially during these troubled times . |
| 8 | In order to reconstitute purposeful and meaningful administrative acts we not only need to save the different communicative acts but also to be able to reconstitute their inter-relationships in real time . |
| 9 | It not only dared to enter the domain of philosophy by offering a critique of epistemology but also brought with it the heresy of relativism . |
| 10 | As he said , he not only had to learn the very complicated lines but also how to copy Coward 's abdominal breathing techniques . |
| 11 | This week just past he not only failed to anticipate the row , he then reacted too slowly to it . |
| 12 | Dwyer told the players how he wanted to win the two-match series against Scotland and how he not only wanted to reclaim the Bledisloe Cup from the All Blacks but complete Australia 's first ever 3–0 series whitewash . |
| 13 | In seeking to solve this second problem of semantic exactitude , he not only fails to solve the problem of making meanings plain to the public but actually makes that problem a good deal more complex . |