Example sentences of "[adv] only [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with the consolidation of the accounts of a group of companies , this does not only involve aggregation : there is also the elimination of any inter-fund balances to preclude double-counting . |
| 2 | Schools can not only make crime prevention part of their curriculum by organising talks and projects , but can also help by allowing voluntary groups to use their facilities , especially those working with young people . |
| 3 | He must not only distinguish behaviour from ideology , he must also take careful note of just how they are interrelated . |
| 4 | Above all , he had been led to it by the discovery that story , myth , could not only carry truth , but also be truth . |
| 5 | Talks on privatising Deutsche Bundespost Telekom have entered a critical phase , with a key decision due next month , Germany 's postal and telecommunications minister Wolfgang Bosch told Reuter at Hannover on Friday : ‘ In a few weeks we will know whether or not there will be a change to the constitution , ’ he said , noting that decision will not only affect privatisation of Telekom but also Bonn 's position at the upcoming talks with the European Commission — an agreement on privatisation would pave the way for Bonn to approve the Community plan to open domestic and international telephone calls to competition ; the current strategy to get agreement from Germany 's opposition socialists is to win over the postal union , which so far rejects turning Telekom into a joint stock company for fear of massive job losses . |
| 6 | People talking do not only exchange information , and sometimes they exchange no real information at all ( 'nice day , is n't it ? ' ) . |
| 7 | Firstly , input at the next highest level need not only contain information at that level , since if the user understands the message then automatically the next stage is provided . |
| 8 | The exhibition will not only show life in Bentley during the past 150 years , but also that of Froyle , concentrating on the development of both village schools , culminating in their merger in 1986 . |
| 9 | Here the secondary process does not just operate through discourse , but is structured like discourse , while the primary process does not only discharge energy through the use of perceptual memories , but is structured like a ‘ perceptual field ’ . |
| 10 | For one thing , they feel the functionalist approach does not only neglect change and conflict but tends to ‘ reify ’ society — to treat it as a thing — by attributing to social structures capacities for thought and purposive action which only humans can possess . |
| 11 | The back of the palisade wall can be lined with polythene which will not only give protection against continuous wetting of the timber , but will also stop soil oozing through . |
| 12 | A neighbourly area with at least a few houses nearby will not only give company and a better community feeling but also add to security and safety . |
| 13 | In its recent working party discussion document , entitled Freeing Up Small Business Enterprise , the institute points out that the replacement of the present mandatory audit by an annual accountant 's report ‘ would not only give business better value for money but would also reduce the number of small company failures as more time could be devoted to the survival and growth of small business enterprise ’ . |
| 14 | in such circumstances temperature itself poses no problem , but in both summer and winter actively decomposing material can not only reduce oxygen supply but also produce not only carbon dioxide but toxic gases such as hydrogen sulphide ( ‘ rotten eggs ’ ) . |
| 15 | These lessons must not only concern infrastructure , but also process ; not only the ‘ what ’ of traffic calming but also the ‘ how ’ . |
| 16 | According to The Hindu of March 31 , Lal had acted in order to pre-empt a possible move by Singh to remove Chauthala from the party and also in order to convey a message to the Prime Minister that any action against his son " could not only evoke resistance but provoke counterattacks " . |
| 17 | This would not only save money and help to curb the growth of the world 's stocks of separated plutonium ; it might also help to persuade Russia to dispose of its plutonium , rather than weaving an economic pipedream around it . |
| 18 | These developments will help all those buying a home , moving house or taking a house to rent to choose dwellings that will not only save money on their fuel bills , but help to improve the environment . |
| 19 | As with any pre-booked golf holiday , you should confirm your tee-time on booking and perhaps check the travel time from the airport to the desired hotel — this will not only save time , but unwanted aggravation as well . |
| 20 | Increasingly , then , when we examine social change in rural England we must not only take account of changes within agriculture but of changes on the interface between the ‘ truly rural ’ ( i.e-agricultural ) inhabitants and the ‘ adventitious ’ population of ex-urbanite newcomers who have moved into the countryside in such large numbers since the war . |
| 21 | ‘ They will not only raise awareness , but we hope they will also raise the quality of education on social concerns , as well as stimulating organisations and individuals to take action to address the problems , ’ said Ashish Sen , Producer and Media Coordinator with the centre . |
| 22 | Those candidates exercise their freedoms and I defend those freedoms — If the freedoms which Conservative Members say they want to uphold were so widespread , they would not only define freedom in terms of the power to own shares in a company but would seek to defend it in terms of being able to get a job in that company , in a country with getting on for 2.5 million unemployed . |
| 23 | The clergy did not only minister word and sacraments ; they also performed social roles for their flock . |
| 24 | The propositions that this book addresses are that research is an important ingredient in the formation and implementation of effective policies and good practice in child care ; and that those who work in the child care services can not only incorporate research into their general experience , knowledge and skill but also contribute to it through their own careful observation and recording . |
| 25 | A developing disability culture can not only increase insight into the progress of disabled people becoming active in the area of civil rights , but can provide important opportunities for individuals to gain confidence by forming a new and independent social identity . |
| 26 | Thus , detailed study of samian pottery and other export goods can not only provide information about trade , but also about the economy of the Roman empire . |
| 27 | The latter would not only include animal manure but also marl , sand , seaweed where available , ash , and a host of other materials , not all of which were beneficial . |
| 28 | If you say you are going to do something and you do n't , you will not only lose credibility , impact and effectiveness but also give your debtor further confidence to continue not paying . |
| 29 | You will not only lose weight and have greater vitality , you will also find that you are able to think more dearly and are less likely to suffer from stress . |
| 30 | To practice those patterns will not only help accuracy in speaking , but speed analysis also . |