Example sentences of "not only [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outcome of this meeting however , was that the Task Force not only decided to question the research priorities of the ARC , but also their methodology which typically relied upon research contracts awarded to outside firms of consultants to whom : — |
| 2 | It not only dared to enter the domain of philosophy by offering a critique of epistemology but also brought with it the heresy of relativism . |
| 3 | However , even at the same time as this controversy continues the discipline has not only come to recognize the influence of the self , but has urged that we use it as a scientific construction ( Okely 1975a ) . |
| 4 | This was not only designed to withstand the heat without soaking up liquid vinyl like blotting-paper , but it was supplied with a distinctive pattern on the back to indicate the direction of the paper grain . |
| 5 | This week just past he not only failed to anticipate the row , he then reacted too slowly to it . |
| 6 | In the short term the speech not only failed to accelerate the coming of reform , but even postponed it . |
| 7 | It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length . |
| 8 | He climbed to the upper level , and from the top of the stairs he could see a wide slice of moonlight telling him that he 'd not only forgotten to lock the door behind them , in his haste he 'd neglected even to close it ; he crossed the decking and closed it now , switching the key from the outside to the inside and turning it in the lock . |