Example sentences of "[not/n't] only a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To own land was to possess , not only a symbol of status , but also the most prized source of wealth and power . |
| 2 | But even in the 1860s , the notion that a " mere girl " might learn the trade very quickly and be doing as well as a man in a short time , was not only a threat to employment but a threat to the craftsman 's pride in his skill . |
| 3 | Our eyes and minds have felt the need for change , not only a change of view but also the psychological relief and stimulus of thinking of something new . |
| 4 | Such records are not only a stimulus for enthusiasm and an aid to forward planning but have communication value for a team of staff as well as for parents , and help continuity in case of staff change . |
| 5 | It needed not only a revolution in organisation but in technology too . |
| 6 | But it does indicate the extent to which Mary 's cushioned childhood created not only a cocoon of adulation , but a cocoon of immaturity which she seemed remarkably reluctant to pierce . |
| 7 | A positive experience of school was not only a reflection of examination success , but may also have resulted from good relationships with peers or a positive memory of several other aspects of school life . |
| 8 | The extent to which children are thought about while housework is done is not only a reflection on housework 's fragmented quality ; it also signifies the basic difficulties which inhere in the combination of housewife and mother roles . |
| 9 | The coherence is therefore not only a coherence over time but also a consistency or cohesion in action . |
| 10 | The year 1974 saw both Ceauşescu 's ‘ election ’ as President of the Socialist Republic of Romania at a ceremony in which he bestowed on himself not only a sash of office but a sceptre too . |
| 11 | The maintenance of living structure requires not only a flow of energy , but a multitude of controls on that flow . |
| 12 | He will appreciate that there will be not only a sense of relief at Yarrow , but a great sense of pride that the company has been entrusted with that order . |
| 13 | Faced with changes like these , the farm worker experiences not only a sense of alienation from the village , but often a real material deprivation . |
| 14 | Their in fidelity was not only a solvent of family ties in this world ; it also destroyed all prospects of reunion in the next . |
| 15 | Their attempt to cause trouble is not only a sign of division within the party ; it could also pose problems for Solidarity . |
| 16 | This increasing emphasis on ‘ dignity ’ was not only a reference to behaviour within the chapel but to the nature of the Church as a body . |
| 17 | Not only a question about art . |
| 18 | Perhaps we could all agree that it is not only a question of money . |
| 19 | Of course , there are relatively as well as absolutely very many more poor people in the Third World than in the First World but this is not only a question of geography but also of transnational class location . |
| 20 | Privatisation , then , is not only a question of secularisation . |
| 21 | Chess is not only a part of home life . |
| 22 | But he felt not only a sort of guilt , but a special remorseful intimate pain , to think that he had failed Franca when she appealed to him . |
| 23 | For her the multi-media scheme has been not only a counter to depression but also a means of exercising aspects of her intellect and imagination . |
| 24 | The opening of Sonnet 148 again criticizes his own powers of sight and discrimination : It is not only a failure in perception : as we have seen in 152 , the eyes were merely agents or instruments of the will or judgement , from which self-deception flowed , forcing the organs of perception to see what they are told to see ( as in the political conformity enforced in George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four ) . |
| 25 | On the level of ideology the Conservative Government has attempted to tackle not only a crisis of legitimation but also of motivation . |
| 26 | These shimmering fables , in which an ageing heroine , a ‘ sweet Shura ’ or a Zhenechka , guards her faded mementos and sharp , unfinished memories in defiance of history , help us to understand , perhaps , the drive behind the current , terrifyingly fearless race towards 19th-century-style capitalism : that it is not only a hunger for consumer goods , but a kind of nostalgia for a glamour all the more potent because few now remember it . |
| 27 | This was not only a matter of pride but was also done to conform to the old City by-law which called for the cleansing of pavements by 3 p.m. each day . |
| 28 | This is not only a matter of familiarity but of the connected conditions of relaxation and self-confidence . |
| 29 | The reconversion of one portion of the value of the product into capital and the passing of another portion into the individual consumption of the capitalist as well as the working class form a movement within the value of the product itself in which the result of the aggregate capital finds expression ; and this movement is not only a replacement of value , but also a replacement in material and is therefore as much bound up with the relative proportions of the value-components of the total social product as with their use-value , their material shape . |
| 30 | Yet , as one of his prose pieces of the period reveals , the desert remained for him not only a place of death , but also a place of Christian triumph . |