Example sentences of "[not/n't] only do [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Not only does it normally require an exceptionally large financial injection , but the rules of company law are considerably more demanding for public companies than for private ones or partnerships . |
2 | Not only does it perhaps help in the storage of new memories , but dreaming is actively helping us to solve emotional problems . |
3 | Not only does it apparently have the oldest version of the entry for 1020 ( see above ) , but under 1018 it has the death of an Abingdon abbot which is not in C. Other material now in D and E was probably only added after the Abingdon chronicle reached Canterbury . |
4 | Sex education draws together much of the Whitehouse ‘ philosophy ’ , for not only does it explicitly focus upon the young , but also it carries at least an implicit stance on the role and utility of the contemporary family . |
5 | This is hardly surprising since not only do they still confer enormous discretion on magistrates , but in any case they are only advisory . |
6 | Not only do they seldom produce roots for anchorage or absorption of plant foods , but most develop turions , or winter buds , and effectively disappear during the autumn . |
7 | Not only do we already have such a statement in the apostle 's creed , but theological it 's in a different realm . |
8 | The move to the capital was a great upheaval for the Manchester girls , for not only did they now have to rehearse in Sin City as they called it , but they also had to work with Londoners . |
9 | Not only did he immediately assume overall direction of the battle , organizing his forces and ever-increasing artillery power , but he at once ordered the reoccupation and rearming of the outlying forts , to each of which two weeks ' supply of food and water for every man was dispatched . |
10 | Not only did he needlessly place himself in danger , but no charges were brought against his prisoners . |