Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she was 18 she went to study at the Royal School of Needlework , where she not only learnt how to identify and date historical embroidery , but also became a prize-winning practitioner . |
| 2 | But the Big Ideas that start in this country now quickly travel abroad , where they not only get produced at high speed , at low cost , and with great efficiency , but also undergo continuous development and improvement . |
| 3 | It will make sure that everyone not only tells our customers what we do for them but also why we do it . |
| 4 | This was such an unlooked-for success that I now only need glasses for reading . |
| 5 | I 've taken two at once and speed ( amphetamines ) at the same time but I 'm not silly so I usually only take one . ’ |
| 6 | This had been doubly hurtful , for it meant that she not only did not want to work for and look after him but preferred his lifestyle to her own , and by implication ( for she was a lazy woman ) that meant that she considered what he did not to be work at all , merely a pleasurable means of making a great deal of money . |
| 7 | And she knew that she not only could , but must leave him . |
| 8 | It is quite likely that you not only have no experience of regression therapy but have never even been hypnotized before . |
| 9 | Of course , it 's good to know the ground rules about wearing the right clothes and not jumping on the sett ( certainly , from the badger 's point of view ) , but the consequence of picking up badger-lore slowly — getting closer to the smells , scratches and signs — is that you not only find it easier to watch badgers but also more enjoyable . |
| 10 | Well if you had er , your illness and so on , and the other debts that you may have , erm , and bearing in mind that you actually only have the nine months , you might be a little bit more er , a bit luckier than that , but how about a holiday in Disneyland ? |
| 11 | Worst of all , some sadist of a landscape designer had slapped down Dancer 's stick-and-ball field right next to her house , so she not only had fairies at the bottom of her garden , but also a microcosm of Rutshire Polo Club . |
| 12 | It takes a complete turn to replace the shell and prepare to fire , so you not only fail to shoot this turn but you can not shoot next turn either . |
| 13 | True independence and self-determination come from recognising that we not only have responsibility for ourselves , but also obligations to others . |
| 14 | Again , throwing by hand , throwing stick or catapult , is only as accurate as our individual capabilities and means that we not only have to throw accurately , but also cast accurately — and we must do this in both instances every time we retrieve for another cast . |
| 15 | Gestalt psychologists insist that we not only learn by the steady accretion of tiny units of knowledge but also by the recognition of broad patterns . |
| 16 | They are an important part of our twin-track approach so that we not only come down hard on offenders who commit the crime of taking vehicles , but we do all we can to prevent youngsters from offending . |
| 17 | I sought to explain to him then and before that we not only need to sort out finance but to get on with distributing the food that they can grow , with the production of the food that they do not grow , and sort out their system of feeding the people . |
| 18 | If you are not eligible to be put in if you do n't have a motor car then you 're discounting an enormous number of people who may have motorcycles or motor caravans or , you know , something which is perfectly valid but it invalidates the information that you think you are getting out of the file because you only put in certain perfectly reasonable , groups of er of things and i in , in , in Boots there 's a , there 's a er there 's a a wonderful expression or actually is , is the one I 'm particularly thinking about , you know we , we sell shall we say a million bottles of aspirin a year , it is in fact considerably more than that , and that is perfectly reasonable and valid and mm but in the definition of that we obviously only included what Boots the Chemists sold because that 's all the people who |
| 19 | Yet the response from other corporate finance advisers looking for a vehicle in which to advertise , on a confidential basis , acquisition and disposal opportunities they are involved in was ‘ so strong that we then only had to say it was happening , do you want to be part of it ? — and most of the intermediaries did ’ . |
| 20 | The new owner may find to their dismay , that they not only have a horse who is a perpetual puller , but one who also refuses to learn to travel more slowly . |
| 21 | Furthermore , these giant corporations possess such wealth and power that they not only affect our lives , limbs , health , and property from the forceps to the grave , but they also bend the political democratic process in such a way that their interests are often prioritized over those of the electorate , consumers , employees , and shareholders . |
| 22 | The report noted that they not only provided care for children but enabled teachers to attend to others and also that the aides themselves carried out important educational work under the teacher 's direction . |
| 23 | On further investigation of many of the objects themselves , it becomes clear that they not only represent the selection of non-European artefacts by Europeans , but may also themselves be manufactured as objectifications of the relationship between different societies . |
| 24 | Novice parachutists who blocked out fear completely up to the moment of the jump were often overcome with an overwhelming and incapacitating anxiety such that they not only did not jump but decided to give up jumping forever . |
| 25 | For Napoleon III the defeat was doubly fatal in that it not only revealed France 's weakness but also underlined the extent to which Prussia had now become a major power . |
| 26 | The importance of the ley crop , particularly clover , in an arable system in this contest is that it not only provides diversity , but also a better opportunity for wildlife , particularly plants and insects , to complete its annual cycle than do crops which are cleared every year . |
| 27 | This type of help via an intelligent terminal or microcomputer is particularly valuable for the relatively unskilled end-users , in that it not only reduces the time taken to enter and transmit a search , but also allows correction of any typing or strategy errors before going online , thus removing some of the stress commonly associated with online searching . |
| 28 | Some individualists defend their view on the grounds that it not only provides simpler , more detailed and more perspicuous explanations than its rival , but that it is also morally superior to holism . |
| 29 | The basic problem with budgetary reform is that it not only requires administrative reform , but also strong political support . |
| 30 | The reason for opting for Mendel 's is that it not only has good experimental backing . |