Example sentences of "not only [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also in many languages forms reserved for authorized recipients , including restrictions on most titles of address ( Your Honour , Mr President , etc. ) ; in Tunica there were pronouns that differed not only with sex of referent , but also with the sex of the addressee , so that there were , for example , two words for " they " , depending on whether one was speaking to a man or a woman ( Haas , ibid . ) . |
| 2 | In the mid-to-late 1970s , while building her business , she had to cope not only with prejudice against headhunting , but with prejudice against her as a woman . |
| 3 | 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 . ) . |
| 4 | But market research is concerned not only with measurement of consumption : some of the industry 's most striking successes ( as well as a few flops ) have been about prediction . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The contradictions that remain are challenging — not only with respect to de Beauvoir 's life but also in relation to our own lives . |
| 7 | The plays become a focus , not only for question about Renaissance drama , but about a variety of cultural debates . |
| 8 | Already , though , the examiners are looking not only for knowledge of syllabus content but also for those intellectual qualities that make a successful chartered accountant . |
| 9 | Canals were used not only for transport of goods but also for ferrying passengers and for the occasional pleasure trip . |
| 10 | The preservation qualities of the Somerset Levels have demonstrated to us a wide range of prehistoric woodworking skills and the uses to which wood was put , not only for use in trackways ( Fig. 5 ) hurdles , and so on , but also for making artefacts . |
| 11 | Like the Race Relations Act 1976 it applies not only to discrimination in relation to admissions , but also to the benefits , facilities and services offered by the school and the arrangements for discipline , including exclusion from school . |
| 12 | People who inject drugs are not only at risk of HIV infection from sexual contact , but also from the sharing of infected injecting equipment . |
| 13 | However , these kinds of events are not only of importance in depression ; they are implicated in a variety of illnesses . |
| 14 | They are of great importance not only as food for birds and mammals , but also in pollination and recycling of nutrients . |
| 15 | The economics of the book trade today are creating conditions where many important texts are not only beyond purchase by students but by salaried staff as well . |
| 16 | The spirit of brotherhood travels not only from country to country but also from time to time . |
| 17 | The basis for use of energy in biogeography derives not only from work in ecology generally but also from the field of bioenergetics . |
| 18 | On the basis of this evidence , it has been suggested that poverty is the primary cause of the failure to seek legal advice , and it has been proposed that the failure is due to a lack of ‘ legal competence ’ among the less affluent who suffer not only from lack of money , but also from lack of influence , lack of energy and lack of awareness . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | Its frank , American sexiness became , itself , a world-wide fashion , emulated in London , Paris , Tokyo — and filtering through society rapidly , so that the Weber look was not only in evidence in Bond Street or Knightsbridge but at supermarket checkouts and filling stations . |
| 23 | I wanter to make sure I was properly covered , not only in case of damage to the car , but in case something were to happen to me too . ’ |
| 24 | Hopwood , a case in which the House of Lords upheld the decision of the district auditor to surcharge members of Poplar Borough Council for maintaining a minimum wage for its employees which was not only in excess of wage rates in the area but was also paid to men and women alike . |
| 25 | Christians believe not only in celibacy outside marriage , but chastity , or faithfulness , within it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In general , it would appear that where an obligation of confidentiality arises , the courts will give relief , not only in respect of disclosure of the information , but also as to use of the information without the consent of the person to whom the duty of confidentiality is owed . |
| 29 | Is he aware that there are problems not only in respect of teachers ' salaries , actual as opposed to average , but in respect of responsibility for the funding of the older village primary schools which predominate in rural areas ? |
| 30 | This familiar process of quantification must take place not only in respect of litigation costs but also in respect of non-litigation costs as well as in respect of damages claims and a variety of other claims . |