Example sentences of "not only [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rousseau was keenly aware that majority decisions , or even unanimous ones , are not necessarily right — right , that is , not only according to the moral criteria of any particular individual but from the point of view of the good of the community itself . |
| 2 | Today a fibre-rich diet , often including bran , is not only advocated as a preventative measure : it is also widely used in the treatment of this disease . |
| 3 | This walk not only takes in the lovely moorland around the Doone Valley it also runs along the shady woodland paths on the banks of the East Lyn river . |
| 4 | This exploratory and performance-based approach will not only lead to a deeper understanding of the text in question ( a dramatic exploration of a speech in Shakespeare , for instance , will show how the placing of different emphases can alter fundamentally one 's interpretation of character or meaning ) , but will also lead to an understanding of the play as theatre . |
| 5 | However , because the sun not only participates in the daily rotation of the heavens from east to west but also has its own slow annual motion relative to the stars in the opposite direction , different heliacal risings occur throughout the year . |
| 6 | The words are organized around symmetrical pairs ( grace/wretch ; lost/found ; blind/see ) and the tune , at least in its best known version , not only divides into an open/closed parallelism , through its cadence structure , but within this , the subsidiary phrases form complementary pairs ; moreover , the overall pitch contour follows the arch shape typical of this song type ( see Ex. 1.1 ) . |
| 7 | You must realise that the King not only fell from a great height but the sea pounded his body to and fro against the rocks . ’ |
| 8 | Suddenly a new perspective began to open before the young Prince ; he could not only dream of a Bonapartist cause , he could himself become the representative of that cause . |
| 9 | Moreover , this skilled incompetence not only operates at the individual level , it permeates the entire organisational culture as well . |
| 10 | The individual not only operates in a social context but also is determined , to the extent that she is a social being , by that context . |
| 11 | was not only filled with the Holy Spirit but constituted the fire of judgment to his hearers by means of his teaching and miracles . |
| 12 | First , that early prognosis after the first variceal haemorrhage is not only related to the residual liver function but also to the requirement in transfusions within the 72 hours after the admission . |
| 13 | This is not only to do with the intellectual innovations that led to the idea of the first factual surveys through to the social psychological and , finally , to the explanatory surveys incorporating variable analysis , but also to do with what is indicated about the nature of society and social life . |
| 14 | Deviation from such norms and mores will not only result in a social storm around both the adult and child concerned but may interfere with the child 's normal development according to normal modes of life and upbringing — in other words may affect libidinal development as this must be expected in our culture . |
| 15 | For ‘ 92 we 're pleased to announce a new series of three night tours that not only take in the famous castle and village of Colditz , but also a good slice of what was until recently East Germany . |
| 16 | ‘ The French , on the other hand , not only insist on a wide variety of fresh produce but demand that their chestnuts come from the Auvergne , their snails from Clermont , their frogs from Aurillac , capons from the Bresse , mutton from the Berry , asparagus from Lavris … . ’ |
| 17 | I not only listened to the hon. Gentleman 's arguments tonight , but I have read the other speeches that he has made throughout the passage of the Bill . |
| 18 | One of the most important areas of credit management is risk assessment , not only looking at the individual customer companies concerned , but also at the current financial background in which they operate . |
| 19 | Thus , the MSc in Education is not only seen as a regular part of the national system of educational in-service education in Scotland , but it has a strong international appeal . |
| 20 | He not only got through the first round but he reached the final again ! |
| 21 | If such links are not built , schooling will suffer from being not only detached from the lifelong vision of education and retraining which is foreseen by the CBI , the TECs and the NCVQ but also from appearing not to care about continuity , feed-through and quality assurance . |
| 22 | The climax to this ludicrous campaign from the Dark Ages came in 1953 with the tour of Europe by McCarthy 's two young assistants , Mr Cohn and Mr Schine , who not only sounded like a bad vaudeville act but performed like one . |
| 23 | This is not only damaging to the final exam marks of the Student ( since a Student who had managed 60% in the Final Examination could fail because their End of Module Tests reduce the mark ) , but foolish , since they can take as many retakes of the End of Module Tests as they wish in order to achieve a good pass-mark . |
| 24 | These traces not only witness to a sad history , but also hint of glorious possibilities . |
| 25 | This was not only caused by the lower level of economic activity . |
| 26 | Most of the surviving cast of characters in his book have not only survived in the tumultuous ebb and flow of the art world that took place since Hoving 's retirement , they have flourished . |
| 27 | Our first loss , as you correctly said , was at Palace , and it was not only lost in the last minute , it was in the 94th minute of a terrible game . |
| 28 | From the viewpoint of their investors , the value added offered by venture capitalists not only derives from the careful structuring of transactions but also from extreme selectivity in their choice of investments . |
| 29 | That child labour not only existed in the pre-factory economy but was strongly approved of does not of itself make blinkered sentimentalists of those who reacted so strongly to the " dark , satanic mills " . |
| 30 | The Bramsche Massif is not only characterised by a striking coalification maximum but also by pronounced geophysical anomalies , namely maxima of gravity and magnetic intensity ( Stadler and R. Teichmüller 1971 ) . |