Example sentences of "not only [prep] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is because cousin has a general meaning which covers all the more specific possibilities ( not only with regard to sex , but also with regard to an indefinitely large number of other matters , such as height , age , eye-colour , etc . ) .
2 Towns and cities vary , not only with respect to resources like housing but , more generally , with respect to the number and variety of jobs that are available , and to a wide range of educational , cultural and scenic facilities .
3 The contradictions that remain are challenging — not only with respect to de Beauvoir 's life but also in relation to our own lives .
4 Language has the ability to stimulate and motivate , not only through appeals to logic but also through appeals to emotion ( Burke , 1950 ; Pfeffer , 1981 ; Edelman , 1964 ) .
5 The spirit of brotherhood travels not only from country to country but also from time to time .
6 However , one can see that the relative emphasis on these four factors may vary ( and sometimes conflict ) not only from job to job ( in some cases expertise is of the essence , in others the degree content is virtually irrelevant , and ability and ‘ personality ’ are the key things ) but from one employer and even personnel manager to another .
7 These practices , they further note , ‘ varied not only from region to region and from time to time but also from social class to social class , so that their impact on field systems and rural settlement patterns is complex and not easy to determine . ’
8 How do you ring the changes so that the mood alters , not only from month to month but from one part of the garden to another ?
9 Rosmer 's anecdote gives us the measure of the role that Bukharin played , not only in relation to Lenin , but also to the whole Bolshevik Party .
10 Formal channels include debates , not only in relation to Bills but in relation to any other matter which the House chooses to consider , and questions , oral and written .
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