Example sentences of "not only a [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To own land was to possess , not only a symbol of status , but also the most prized source of wealth and power . |
| 2 | Our eyes and minds have felt the need for change , not only a change of view but also the psychological relief and stimulus of thinking of something new . |
| 3 | But it does indicate the extent to which Mary 's cushioned childhood created not only a cocoon of adulation , but a cocoon of immaturity which she seemed remarkably reluctant to pierce . |
| 4 | A positive experience of school was not only a reflection of examination success , but may also have resulted from good relationships with peers or a positive memory of several other aspects of school life . |
| 5 | The year 1974 saw both Ceauşescu 's ‘ election ’ as President of the Socialist Republic of Romania at a ceremony in which he bestowed on himself not only a sash of office but a sceptre too . |
| 6 | The maintenance of living structure requires not only a flow of energy , but a multitude of controls on that flow . |
| 7 | He will appreciate that there will be not only a sense of relief at Yarrow , but a great sense of pride that the company has been entrusted with that order . |
| 8 | Faced with changes like these , the farm worker experiences not only a sense of alienation from the village , but often a real material deprivation . |
| 9 | Their in fidelity was not only a solvent of family ties in this world ; it also destroyed all prospects of reunion in the next . |
| 10 | Their attempt to cause trouble is not only a sign of division within the party ; it could also pose problems for Solidarity . |
| 11 | Perhaps we could all agree that it is not only a question of money . |
| 12 | Of course , there are relatively as well as absolutely very many more poor people in the Third World than in the First World but this is not only a question of geography but also of transnational class location . |
| 13 | Privatisation , then , is not only a question of secularisation . |
| 14 | Chess is not only a part of home life . |
| 15 | But he felt not only a sort of guilt , but a special remorseful intimate pain , to think that he had failed Franca when she appealed to him . |
| 16 | On the level of ideology the Conservative Government has attempted to tackle not only a crisis of legitimation but also of motivation . |
| 17 | This was not only a matter of pride but was also done to conform to the old City by-law which called for the cleansing of pavements by 3 p.m. each day . |
| 18 | This is not only a matter of familiarity but of the connected conditions of relaxation and self-confidence . |
| 19 | The reconversion of one portion of the value of the product into capital and the passing of another portion into the individual consumption of the capitalist as well as the working class form a movement within the value of the product itself in which the result of the aggregate capital finds expression ; and this movement is not only a replacement of value , but also a replacement in material and is therefore as much bound up with the relative proportions of the value-components of the total social product as with their use-value , their material shape . |
| 20 | Yet , as one of his prose pieces of the period reveals , the desert remained for him not only a place of death , but also a place of Christian triumph . |
| 21 | It showed not only a lot of racism and sexist vanity on the part of the psychiatrist but ignorance about the way of life of his patient . |
| 22 | The cliché image of London clubs being full of government officials muttering Top Secrets over the cold steak-and-kidney pie had , Maxim was coming to see not only a lot of truth but also a lot of sense . |
| 23 | By the late 1970s the state sector had become not only a harbour of inefficiency , as in many ‘ developed ’ countries , but also a greenhouse of the hybrid values emerging in Africa many of which were inimical to efficient methods of low-cost production . |
| 24 | Wooden balconies jutted out from the upper storeys , giving the plaza not only a feeling of space but of intimacy . |
| 25 | But the family among the rich is not only a source of prestige , it has a very instrumental aspect , family networks are manipulated in the course of politics and business . |
| 26 | This is not only a source of plant foods , but also encourages earthworm activity . |
| 27 | For the Profitboss help is not only an attitude of mind , but a way of life . |
| 28 | A church worker involved in the repopulation movement explained why : ‘ El Barillo is not only an island of activity in a deserted zone . |
| 29 | Additionally for Wilde , perverse desire is not only an agency of displacement , it is partly constituted by that displacement and the transgressive aesthetic which informs it . |