Example sentences of "[not/n't] only [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They will be needed not only to compile the initial list but also for reference purposes . |
| 5 | Labour organisation and activism was clearly still in its early stages : notwithstanding this , dictator General Leguia , who took power in July 1919 , announced that he had done so ’ not only to liquidate the old state of affairs , but also to detain the advance of Communism which , because it is premature among us , would produce dreadful consequences ' ( Skidmore and Smith : 1984 , p. 206 ) . |
| 6 | Ceauşescu 's arrogance in presuming not only to treat the Soviet General-Secretary as a person on a par with himself , but also one without the necessary experience to speak with the full authority of a veteran revolutionary like himself undoubtedly aroused a mixture of irritation and amused contempt in Gorbachev . |
| 7 | After many years of patient work , it has been possible not only to isolate the multipotential stem cells but provide conditions such that they will differentiate into the different kinds of blood cell in culture . |
| 8 | In the summer , the solar system should provide all the heat necessary ; at other times of the year , some ‘ topping-up ’ will be necessary and , in the winter , precautions have to be taken not only to prevent the solar part of the system freezing ( antifreeze is usually added to the water in this part of the system ) but also to prevent the whole system working in reverse which would mean that the domestic hot water cylinder was heating the solar collector ! |
| 9 | I agree with David Marquand ( MT May ) that the Labour Party has an ideal opportunity not only to attack the Tory government record but also develop an exciting alternative strategy . |
| 10 | Distinct Catholic values are , therefore , being used not only to challenge the individual candidate but also to challenge the existence of the post and by implication to challenge the status of community education in McGregor School . |
| 11 | Such an exercise will serve not only to sensitize the American reader to the distinctive features of the British polity but also to make readers more aware of the features of their own polity . |