Example sentences of "[verb] not only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On economic development , we have failed to pursue the policies of partnership between Government and industry which are commonplace elsewhere in Europe and which involve not only management but trade unions and workers ' representatives in a much more positive way than anything that has happened under this Government . |
| 2 | Okay so it covers not only illness , but also accident as well . |
| 3 | It has been argued that it covers not only fairness , in the sense of fairness to the accused , but also in the sense of ensuring that , in the eyes of the public , the highest standards of justice are upheld and it appears to the world at large that the accused is getting a fair trial . |
| 4 | Section 8(1) covers not only force but the threat of force . |
| 5 | Efficiency incorporates not only quantity and quality of achievement but also preservation of his own safety and health and that of others who might be involved as working partners , passengers or the general public in the neighbourhood . |
| 6 | Under this head is included not only information on informal social ties and organization , but also the fields of study generally described as ‘ the ethnography of speaking ’ ( Saville-Troike 1982 ) and ‘ interactional sociolinguistics ’ ( Gumperz 1982 ; see further 8.4.1 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ , written in 1927 , contains not only material quoted in Eliot 's 1926 survey , ‘ Lancelot Andrewes ’ , and recollections from Eliot 's own life ( some of which he catalogued when reminiscing in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ) . |
| 8 | The plan worked because in this new environment the young Prince found not only friendship but also the stimulus of intellectual competition . |
| 9 | This scheme was set up to provide not only relief for carers but also stimulation and companionship for sufferers who live alone . |
| 10 | There is an urgent need for the NHS Review to focus on the development of training at all levels to ensure that properly qualified , trained staff are available to provide not only hospital care , but support and rehabilitative care for increased numbers of patients . |
| 11 | The draftsman should consider not only window glass , but also window frames , window sills , mastic joints , soffits . |
| 12 | A policy which will consider not only air pollution , but problems such as energy efficiency , safety , noise , the implication of different systems of transport on cities and the countryside and ultimately society at large , to establish which are the most environmentally sound and economically efficient methods of moving from A to B for the sake of both humans and the planet . |
| 13 | Does the Secretary of State agree that , to obtain a balanced view , we must consider not only unemployment but employment and self-employment , which grew steadily during the 1980s under the Government and is set to grow further in the 1990s under the same Government ? |
| 14 | It became the local community creative scene encompassing not only music , but mime , drama , poetry reading and in fact , an outlet for local cottage industry . |
| 15 | Elsewhere I have argued that the whole fabric of a primary school curriculum in a socialist state like Tanzania will differ from that in a capitalist state like Kenya , for the different philosophies will affect not only selection of syllabus content but also languages of instruction , policy towards competition and examinations , links between school and community and above all the attitudes which teachers foster in the learners . |
| 16 | This has been used in space and conveniently produces not only electricity but also water . |
| 17 | ‘ She said immigration was an issue which ought to be raised because it was going to affect not only employment and social service benefits , but also cause homelessness . |
| 18 | The incidence and patterning of illness among members of a family is interlocked with the emotional interior of the family : thus another logical corollary of women 's pivotal position in this unit is their capacity to affect not only health , but ill-health . |
| 19 | The fact that the average adult spends a minimum of 26 hours sitting in front of a television set in any one week represents not only time lost in sharing activities with their children and young people , but time lost in influencing and controlling them . |
| 20 | network membership supplies not only information , but also the tacit skills which enable individuals to become competent and accepted members of occupational groups . |
| 21 | In other words , mistakes must be based on reasonable grounds where the offences are serious — which would cover not only rape but also cases involving a risk of death or serious injury , such as the use of force in self-defence . |
| 22 | Cells can influence not only integrin expression but under specific circumstances may ‘ activate ’ previously inactive integrins by exposing the ligand binding region through a molecular switch mechanism associated with a conformational change in the integrin molecule itself . |
| 23 | The foal receives not only affection and security from its mother , but also acceptance . |
| 24 | α-granule nucleoids have been demonstrated by electronmicroscopic studies in the canalicular system ( White , 1974 ) , and it is likely that normal secretion involves not only fusion of these granules with the canalicular system but also platelet contraction . |
| 25 | In Australia the scope of the national energy conservation programme has been broadened to include not only petrol saving but the conservation of all forms of energy . |
| 26 | I am doubtful if it was wise to include not only dialogue but descriptive passages in a sort of sub-Chaucerian English : for instance , ‘ Grammercy , brother ! |
| 27 | Rather different were those heads who avoided not only confrontation but also contact , taking refuge in their office and resorting to memoranda rather than face-to-face encounters . |
| 28 | The programme also aims to broaden Christian communicators ' understanding of ‘ development ’ , which embraces not only food , clothing , shelter and employment , but also culture , ethnicity and religion . |
| 29 | The Commission provoked not only disappointment but anger and resentment by another recommendation to the effect " that the intermarriage of the congenital deaf should be strongly discouraged , as well as the intermarriage of blood relations , especially where any hereditary tendency to deaf mutism prevails in the family . " |
| 30 | Both cover not only painting but also the decorative arts . |