Example sentences of "have [not/n't] only been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our interpretation is that gas-phase HNO 3 has by that time been sequestered in the condensed phase by heterogeneous reactions on polar stratospheric cloud surfaces , forming nitric acid trihydrate as temperatures fell below 196K in winter It is probable that a substantial fraction of nitric acid has not only been lost from the gas phase , but also removed from the stratosphere by the growth and subsequent sedimentation of aerosol particles . |
| 2 | The Kitemark on a product will indicate that it has not only been made to a published specification , but that it has been independently tested by BSI as well . |
| 3 | In education , the liberal optimism of the 1985 Swann Report has not only been punctured by the policies of Conservative governments and by the ideological counter-offensive of the New Right . |
| 4 | If the story of Edmund 's connection with Swegen 's death does date from Cnut 's time , it is interesting , and seems to hint at one of the most resented aspects of Danish rule , that Edmund , like Ælfheah , had not only been martyred by the Danes , he had also refused to give them money . |
| 5 | As noted earlier , these theories have not only been applied to people but also to people 's creations , such as works of art and writings . |
| 6 | It is therefore hardly surprising that Persian compositions have not only been reproduced in countless machine-made carpets in the West , but also emulated by most other rug-producing countries in the East . |
| 7 | By the time we have finished his chapter called ‘ The Heavens ’ , we have not only been informed about what the shape of the Ptolemaic universe was like , and how the belief in astrology worked , and how much knowledge was in our sense ‘ scientific ’ and how much ‘ poetic ’ or ‘ mythological ’ . |