Example sentences of "not only [vb pp] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1914 Japan had not only achieved revision of the unequal treaties , but also alliance with Britain and the beginnings of an empire . |
| 2 | Eugenists not only opposed charity to the poor , but also favoured child allowances to the better-off to encourage the breeding of superior specimens . |
| 3 | Bayezid II was won over by Mueyyedzade 's arguments and not only appointed Kemalpasazade to the Taslik medrese but also charged him with writing a history of the Ottoman dynasty in Turkish to serve as a companion piece to that being written in Persian by Idris Bitlisi |
| 4 | As Duchess of Aquitaine she had inherited the ducal claim to Toulouse , but at Limoges Raymond had not only done homage to the Dukes of Aquitaine , he had also done homage to the Young King . |
| 5 | This not only boosted confidence in the sentencer 's own unique ability to reach the right result ( Parker et al. , 1999 : ch. 5 ) , but also emphasized the inviolability of the sentencing function in the face of perceived interference from outside . |
| 6 | Couples not only finished top of the US rankings but became only the eighth player in history to win the Vardon Trophy , awarded for the lowest stroke average , and the PGA Player of the Year . |
| 7 | He not only handed control of the new Secret Committee to grandees but in the same month , December 1856 , raised the qualification for promotion to the hereditary nobility from the achievement of rank five on the Table of Ranks to the achievement of rank four . |