Example sentences of "not only see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The autumn of 1529 not only saw the fall from power of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey , who had dominated religious and political life in England for the previous fifteen years , but also the beginning of the first session of the Reformation Parliament . |
| 2 | Surrealists not only saw art as being composed of signifying elements drawn from the real , but also understood reality to be composed of signifying elements . |
| 3 | He not only saw off no-confidence motions , but won the Congress round to supporting direct elections for an executive presidency . |
| 4 | Finally , the Polish General Staff has not only seen itself as an avid ‘ consumer ’ of Soviet military doctrine , but a contributor as well , which has authored its own innovations with Soviet endorsement . |
| 5 | Each national economy is not only seen as part of that world economic ( and social ) system , it is treated as subordinate to its global forces . |
| 6 | Thus , the MSc in Education is not only seen as a regular part of the national system of educational in-service education in Scotland , but it has a strong international appeal . |
| 7 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |
| 8 | This was a chance not only to see some sport , but to make some extra money , and many a good profit made on a good deal on the Friday was lost on a poor horse on the Saturday . |
| 9 | The hide is a good place to spend some time , not only to see the more common bird species such as heron , coot and several kinds of tit , but you might also be lucky enough to spot less common birds such as the great spotted woodpecker and the kingfisher . |
| 10 | In fact sir , the County Council 's figures produced in another appendix , ca n't lay my hands on it at the moment , had put this figure in as three thousand six hundred and fifty , but the nub of those two things are , that over that six month period , we 're not only seeing more houses built but we have more consented , and that has n't affected the residue that appears in the rest of these schedules . |
| 11 | But Watson does not only see himself as publicity agent for his cause . |
| 12 | Naturally , I went to see Buckingham Palace , not dreaming on that occasion that I would not only see it again but actually enter the premises . |
| 13 | This can be comforting to them to some extent , but what they really want to hear is that you will not only see that they are cared for properly for the rest of their days , but that you will help them to remain in control of their own finances and to be as independent as possible . |
| 14 | To grasp the meaning of a handshake we must not only see it positively as located in a greeting ceremonial , that is in a sequence of actions identified with respect to the social act they accomplish , but we must also see it negatively , as excluding certain alternatives and possibilities of action . |
| 15 | Would-be interpreters studying the music could not only see Elgar 's intentions in the printed score , but could follow the creative process a stage further — to the ultimate stage , in fact , and hear the creator realize his work in its natural medium , that of sound . |
| 16 | In the lighted deckhouse he could not only see old Willis , fiddling about with what looked like tins and glasses , but Janet , wearing her other trouser suit . |
| 17 | We can now not only see how justified this comment was but , in details inaccessible to Freud at the time he was writing , can determine with some exactness both the causes and the consequences of this fateful development in human evolution . |
| 18 | We can now not only see why in such sentences one feels an implicit predication with respect to a support but also get a clearer view of why to is used before the infinitive : its role here seems to be simply that of indicating that the infinitive 's support is situated in time before the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 19 | At Feros Lighting , Parsons Street , Banbury , you 'll not only see the largest selection of domestic lighting in the area , they can also advise you on the best way to light your office , so if it 's one lightbulb , your whole home or a complete office , for the complete look go to Feros Lighting in Parsons Street , Banbury . |
| 20 | Many of these have roses in mature growth , and this is where you not only see potential sizes but can also get ideas of settings of other roses or other plants that you can copy in your garden . |
| 21 | You not only see the food , you feel it in your hands , distinct and concrete , you are aware of its rich and striking smell ; someone in the dream even holds it up to your lips , but every time a different circumstance intervenes to prevent the consummation of the act . |
| 22 | The narrating self not only sees , but wants to be seen to be seeing : the registration of detail , also praised by Calvino , and the reproduction of objects , gestures and expressions are conscripted into a form of obsessive and narcissistic display on the part of the observer . |