Example sentences of "be not only [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | l The intent has been not only to describe the activity , but also to surround it with the appropriate drama . |
| 2 | The army had deployed some 5,000 troops with air and naval support , the objective being not only to clear the area of LTTE bases but also to cut off the Tigers ' lines of communication southwards into Eastern Province . |
| 3 | The main purpose of the play is not only to show the murder of Claudius , but also , and more significantly , to show the character of Hamlet and the problems he has in accepting what he has to do . |
| 4 | It must never be lost sight of that the objective of an R&D project is not only to meet the target performance specification but , equally importantly , to produce and prove a design that can be manufactured efficiently and exploited profitably . |
| 5 | Legal issues , like other technical problems , can only be properly understood within their broader social context , and this is especially so when our purpose is not only to understand the world , but to change it . ’ |
| 6 | In 1698 Celia Fiennes records in her ‘ Journeys ’ that she visited Windermere , but the object of the visit was not only to view the scenery but to taste the Windermere char , a fish already so famous that , for instance , James Graham of Levens Hall used to order his steward to send down potted char to London , where he presented some to Queen Anne . |
| 7 | It was not only to meet the argument of demographic decline if the trade stopped but to avoid the embarrassingly radical charge that they wanted rapid emancipation that antislavery reformers argued the consequence of abolition would be virtually automatic improvement in the conditions of slaves . |