Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] only [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the diversity lies not only in the differences between people , the sitters , but also in different ways of photographing and in the varying contexts within which we encounter the image . |
| 2 | Hourcade also saw as a second feature of Cubist painting the organization of the whole surface in terms of interpenetrating or interacting planes : ‘ The fascination of the paintings lies not only in the presentation of the main objects represented , but in the dynamism which emerges from the composition , a strange , disturbing dynamism , but one that is perfectly controlled . ’ |
| 3 | But the state of a country 's mental health lies not only in the fate of its hospital patients but also in the general condition of its people . |
| 4 | The significance of this lies not only in the fact that these are all writers who themselves adopted the ancient conception of the rule of law . |
| 5 | I think that , and I know that members from the D S O board , many members excuse me , er agreed that there seems a need to be a more positive approach taken to save the schools and other organisations within the county council network , when considering erm , the uses of the D S O , the advantages that that has not only on the county council , but them as an individual school , college or whatever . |
| 6 | As April , ‘ the cruellest month ’ , brings renewed life , which is a renewal of pain and memories of destruction , so antithetically , this dust looks not only towards the grave , but also towards birth as the handful of fecundating dust sprinkled over those red rocks of Durkheim 's desert tribes . |
| 7 | The governing process refers not only to the activities of Cabinet , Parliament , nationally and locally elected representatives but also includes those of the large public bureaucracies of civil servants , the police , the army , the courts and so on . |
| 8 | This classification refers not only to the size of teams , but to their composition . |
| 9 | The ‘ revolution ’ refers not only to the paper binding of volumes ( which had already occurred in the nineteenth century ) but much more to a shift in distribution methods , away from specialist outlets for books . |
| 10 | ‘ A lot of the credit for that goes not only to the photographers themselves who have argued their case for greater prominence , but a great debt is owed to people like the editor Harold Evans who pioneered the creative use of photography in papers . |
| 11 | It occurs not only in the nucleus but also in the nucleolus in the cytoplasm . |
| 12 | The desire to travel — especially among the young and the well-educated — depends not only on the existence of a few Great Sights , but also on scenic variety , a sense that a particular place is different and , above all , old . |
| 13 | The accuracy of a digital representation of a line depends not only on the ability of the person using the digitizer to follow the centre of the line on the map exactly but also on the number of points they input to describe the shape of the line ( Aldred 1972 ) . |
| 14 | Much depends not only on the ability of Britain 's domestic IT industry to provide customers with good products but on how other organisations respond to using the technology . |
| 15 | The resolving power of a microscope depends not only on the wavelength of the light but also inversely on the aperture of the instrument . |
| 16 | The ratio of locals to newcomers in the village today depends not only on the accessibility to nearby urban centres , but , now that most of lowland England has been subject to these changes , by the mixture of housing which each village contains . |
| 17 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 18 | So the value of the firm depends not only on the value of the shares and the bonds issued by the firm , but also on the combination of shares and bonds , i.e. on the degree of leverage . |
| 19 | The strength with which particular potentially contradictory relationships are held together depends not only on the amount of objective ‘ fit ’ between the components but also on the strength of the articulating principle involved , which is in turn connected with objective social factors . |
| 20 | At the heart of the real-balance effect lies the hypothesis that desired consumption expenditure depends not only upon the level of income and the rate of interest but also upon the real net worth of the private sector : that is where is the nominal value of private sector net worth deflated by the price level . |
| 21 | Broader in scope than any predecessor its special strength is that it deals not only with the manufacturing industry but the social conditions in which it was set . |
| 22 | The modernity or postmodernity of the nouveau roman resides not only in the degree to which the novels in question are transgressive in narrative terms , but also in the extent to which they call into question the legitimacy of the practices they install . |
| 23 | The state of emergency in which our planet finds itself consists not only in the contamination of nature but of the very roots of our thought , which are still shaped by thousands of years of prejudice and prescriptive categories . |
| 24 | God 's revelation consists not only in the telling of the facts but also in their interpretation . |
| 25 | It draws not only on the experience of Rayner scrutinies and MINIS , but also on the concept of management accounting ( see pp. 11 ) . |
| 26 | It applies not only to the appellant 's notice and respondent 's counter-notice , but also to the copy documents lodged by the appellant under Ord 59 , r9 including , of course , the transcript of the proceedings in the court below . |
| 27 | This is an important conclusion because it applies not only to the Benguela ecosystem off the coast of southern Africa , but to all marine ecosystems where marine mammals are perceived to be competing with commercial fisheries . |
| 28 | This applies not only to the anger implicit in embarrassment or defensiveness ( " it 's not my fault , it 's yours ! " ) but also in our apparently most reasoned attitudes — " I fear and am ashamed of my own homosexual feeling ; I am angry with it in itself ; I will project this anger outside me but I can not admit why ; all homosexuals should be shot because they corrupt little children ! " |
| 29 | In this case concern rests not only with the recipient but also with the donor ( who pays the taxes to finance the subsidy ) . |
| 30 | Such intervention has often had to be exerted through covert pressure , since it conflicts not only with the formality of managerial autonomy , but also with the achievement of other formally defined goals such as financial performance targets and even policies on controlling public sector wages . |