Example sentences of "[not/n't] only [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the directorship of Sir Roy Strong , for example , the V&A not only mounted the well-attended exhibition of luxury artefacts by Fabergé , it also offered house space to Sir Terence Conran 's Boilerhouse project , a museum within a museum for the exhibition of contemporary consumer and industrial product design . |
| 2 | Thus , CR-1409 not only abrogates the tropic effect of CCK on pancreatic growth but also inhibits functional stimulation of the exocrine cell . |
| 3 | Not only had the various guerrilla movements cut all land means of communication ; the staff of the paper , including the reporters , had left to join one side or another in the hills . |
| 4 | We were told that not only had the Argentinian fleet continued on their route to the Falklands but there was now every reason to believe that Argentinian troops had landed . |
| 5 | But after she had finished the first part of her lecture ; after slightly nodding her head to the generous applause ; after the lights had gone up again ; after Ashenden had said ( as every chairman since Creation had said ) how much everyone had enjoyed the talk and how grateful everyone was that not only had the distinguished speaker fascinated each and every one of them but also had agreed to answer any questions which he was absolutely sure everyone in the room was aching to put to such a distinguished expert in the field … it was only then that Dr Moule was able to survey the two intruders . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's friendly ! ’ he shouted over the engine noise , and he pointed through the windscreen at the concrete airstrip which not only had the yellow cross painted huge at its western end , but also had two trucks parked in its centre line , thus making it impossible for any plane to land . |
| 7 | ( Success is defined by the extent to which the negotiator not only achieved the immediate objective ( see page 119 ) , but also by the extent to which the agreement stuck when implemented . ) |
| 8 | He said : ‘ It is vital that this inquiry should not only tell the full story of the computer system debacle but also thoroughly examine the long-standing difficulties of London 's ambulance services . ’ |
| 9 | This could not only distort the free interplay of market forces but also jeopardise bank assets . |
| 10 | Ezra ha-kohen not only played the leading role in reordering the nation 's religious establishment ( re-establishment ) , but was almost certainly responsible for a great deal of the safeguarding and consolidation by which the scriptures have come down to us today . |
| 11 | It is expected that this combination will not only ensure the continuing existence of the profession but also identify a high potential for information managers and librarians and a rapid growth in the requirements for their services . |
| 12 | In that campaign , which he ended with a score of 221 , he also rode the fastest 100 by a jump jockey , smashed Jonjo O'Neill 's record seasonal total of 149 , and not only became the first man to ride 200 winners over jumps , but the first to do so under either code since Sir Gordon Richards did so on the Flat in 1952 . |
| 13 | On the other hand , if the option is not exercised , the purchaser not only loses the initial value paid for the options themselves but also the commission paid on the shares he or she did not buy . |
| 14 | From this information , taken from the rates valuation rolls , it will be possible not only to describe the social structure of each part of the city but to assess the factors which determined patterns of social segregation : factors such as income , the operation of the speculative building market , employment , the role of local government , recreational facilities , and industrial and commercial enterprise . |
| 15 | From this information , taken from the rates valuation rolls , it will be possible not only to describe the social structure of each part of the city but to assess the factors which determined patterns of social segregation : factors such as income , the operation of the speculative building market , employment , the role of local government , recreational facilities , and industrial and commercial enterprise . |
| 16 | Today , we have not only halted the upward trend but have in fact reversed it , so that our costs are declining in real terms . |
| 17 | This model not only represents the simplest type of search but it would appear to have become the basis for subject searches as well , over-simplifying what is in fact a very complex process . |
| 18 | Last weekend , however , after rioters looted and burned and smashed , and the army was compelled to escort Banda 's heir apparent , John Tembo , to safety , the Malawi News not only took the extraordinary step of giving a graphic account of the riots , complete with quarter-page photographs , but also accorded Chihana 's court case detailed front-page coverage . |
| 19 | Thus the extreme subjectivism of , for example , the novels of Virginia Woolf , belongs within the same formation as the economic interventionism of Keynes , who wanted not only to preserve the economic system by rationalizing it but to do this so that , within that achieved stability , the real processes of civilized life could be extended , undisturbed . |
| 20 | As such it not only rejects the analytical approach to law as a form of sanctioned command or rule , unless sanction is taken to include the force of acceptable self-interest in the absence of humanly-contrived threats designed to alter behaviour . |
| 21 | They will be needed not only to compile the initial list but also for reference purposes . |
| 22 | If we take British world title winners by decade from 1892 onwards to the present , the picture that emerges not only refutes the hungry fighter theory , but suggests that better living standards produce more world champions than poverty does . |
| 23 | Moreover , traditional family networks not only offered the elderly relative a place , but one which gave them an important and respected role within the family group . |
| 24 | ‘ Not only does the present law put all the blame on an unfortunate woman , it is used to punish her for her misfortune . |
| 25 | Not only does the increased frequency of pollution hazes in rural and wilderness areas cause dissatisfaction and loss of amenity to many , but they also have the potential for affecting global climate ( refer to section 2.1 ) . |
| 26 | Not only does the Junior School influence the children at their most receptive , and indeed their most vulnerable age , but , within the time spent in the Junior School , the child lays down the basis of all future learning . |
| 27 | Not only does the successful school gain a valuable prize but also , through a skilfully handled press release , it gains a great deal of publicity and prestige . |
| 28 | Not only does the contradictory nature of the evidence preclude any generalization , but it is difficult to conduct any cross-cultural comparisons because there is no agreement as to what should be compared . |
| 29 | Not only does the battered town seem to have been on the receiving end of a good deal of good , honest , no-nonsense coppering , but it gives the impression that a higher authority , God , must have passed over it in the Fifties , blasting it at close range with His celestial hair-drier , to judge from the universally blistered and leprous paintwork on all the buildings . |
| 30 | Not only does the superb landscape of fell and valley provide wonderfully varies walking , but the villages , full of character , are also home to some of the best pubs in the country . |