Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] only the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However unpopular such a measure might at first appear , the long experience of the commissioners had shown them not only the inefficacy in most cases but also the cruelty of issuing executions against the goods of defendants — ‘ as regards the wives and children of debtors by selling their beds from under them , and the expense and oppression attending the levy ’ . |
| 2 | Though Berkeley 's interest in the problem connects with his immaterialism , he is continuing a discussion to which not only the Aristotelians , but also Hobbes , Gassendi , and Locke , made contributions . |
| 3 | Though Berkeley 's interest in the problem connects with his immaterialism , he is continuing a discussion to which not only the Aristotelians , but also Hobbes , Gassendi , and Locke , made contributions . |
| 4 | It is a relational database which is rather like a filing cabinet in which not only the dividers have been removed but also all pieces of paper without words on them . |
| 5 | It is difficult now to realise the scandalised horror with which not only the critics , but the general public in the 1920s and 1930s , greeted the fact that he could have used Victorian magazine illustrations fro producing the series of paintings called Echoes , or make portraits from press or publicity portraits of people such as the Prince of Wales , or public events such as Miss Earhart 's Arrival of 1932 . |
| 6 | You not only the , won the peace for your generation but for your sons and your daughters and your grandsons and granddaughters . |
| 7 | Is there one , in fact , or are there now only the multitude of disciplinary sub-cultures ? |
| 8 | I will paint for him not only the visible universe , but all that he can conceive of nature 's immensity in the womb of this abridged atom . |
| 9 | Indeed , it was a precocious interest in Wealden fossils that led to the assembly of a large and valuable collection that was donated in 1884 to the newly opened Natural History Museum in South Kensington , and which gained him not only the title of honorary collector for the museum but also brought him the coveted fellowship of the London Geological Society at the age of twenty-one . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think that she expected me to run down the shot ’ said Emmons , referring to her magnificent dash across the baseline to reach an all but winning forehand from Bentley which would have given her not only the first set , but also the psychological ‘ first blood ’ . |
| 11 | He was able to give her not only the time , but the state of the tide at every bridge on the river . |
| 12 | They 're making it so only the rich can be educated . |
| 13 | Interestingly enough , Laplace included it in only the first and second editions of his book The System of the World , and left it out of later editions ; perhaps he decided that it was a crazy idea . |
| 14 | Retirement usually brings with it not only the loss of the largest single activity in which people have engaged , but also a massive drop in income , standard of living and social status . |
| 15 | They were to he not only the routes to culture and the intellect but the means to romance and sort of sex . |
| 16 | Was it really only the day before yesterday when everything had been so pleasant and normal ? |
| 17 | With clinical detachment , she eased the handle of the broom into her vagina , and did things with it that only the randiest teenager would do behind closed shutters . |
| 18 | The letters of Gilbert Foliot , successively abbot of Gloucester , bishop of Hereford and London in the twelfth century , are singularly revealing , because they show us not only the range of a large family circle , but the strength of feeling which could exist between distant relatives . |