Example sentences of "[conj] not only [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And not only when it comes to promotions . " |
| 2 | You should change your needle regularly , and not only when it is blunt or broken . |
| 3 | It seemed an immensely important question , and not only when applied to Frankenstein . |
| 4 | From time to time , and not only when yearly reports were sent home , parents were involved . |
| 5 | From my point of view that is exactly why he should be taken seriously , and not only because of his apparent prestige . |
| 6 | Such a circumstance would be most regrettable — and not only because it is one of the functions of education to dispel confusion . |
| 7 | I am deeply interested in the row that has been brewing for some time in the heat of the nuclear arms debate , and not only because the key figure is a friend of mine . |
| 8 | Nell knew , and not only because she was a female of the same species . |
| 9 | And not only because of Blanco . |
| 10 | It looked quite different from Liverpool , and not only because the sun was shining . |
| 11 | However , such arguments will be more successful in a hearing before the European Commission on Human Rights ( and not only because of the European Convention ) , and may provoke even greater interest amongst academic lawyers attempting to overcome the limitations of the dominant positivist approach to legal problems , and amongst the wider non-legal public . |
| 12 | These divisions in opinion , so difficult to make sense of , are perhaps understandable , and not only because of the innate complexity of Bosnia . |
| 13 | But if you are the slightest bit interested in this symphony you simply must hear it , and not only because it was recorded only months after première performances conducted by Mravinsky himself . |
| 14 | Some of those who did not possess a faith in God which was proof against all adversities now saw that the great hope of a relief force reaching them , which had so far buoyed them up , was an illusory one ; even if a relief now came , in many different ways it would be too late and not only because so many of the garrison were already dead ; India itself was now a different place ; the fiction of happy natives being led forward along the road to civilization could no longer be sustained . |
| 15 | Quality circles have been seen as a major achievement of the Japanese system , and not only because they serve as a substitute for quality surveillance as a separate management function . |
| 16 | For these reasons , and not only because their place of work is constantly changing , hardly any contract computer staff are organised into trade unions . |
| 17 | The daylight brought tears , and not only because of its brightness . |
| 18 | And not only because of my respect for my father . |
| 19 | The third decade of the sixteenth century was a real turning-point in musical history — and not only because the Reformation quickly called into existence a body of religious music which preferred the vernacular to Latin and served other liturgical needs than those of the Roman church . |
| 20 | Wycliffe was never at ease in other people 's houses and not only because he was usually bored . |
| 21 | By comparison , the Athens of Aristophanes ; own day , at the end of the century , was a city fallen from greatness , and not only because of the protracted destruction brought about by the Peloponnesian war . |
| 22 | Using the machine is , as you might have guessed , a pleasure , and not only because of its speed . |
| 23 | Matilda would love to have him on her side , and not only because of his reputation . ’ |
| 24 | A growing number of the population , not just the younger generation and not only because of the superficial conversion of the Labour party , want that process . |
| 25 | Those who draw up that plan should include — and not only because they are nominally represented on governing bodies — a wide range of community interests . |
| 26 | This has run into very heavy water in the twentieth century , and not only because of Freud 's onslaught on religion in the name of wish-fulfilment , where he portrayed the idea that people create an imaginary father in the skies to give them comfort . |
| 27 | They were very concerned to encourage religious observance among their employees , for example , and not only provided the churches and chapels but also influenced the selection of the clergy : they ‘ insisted that they [ the clergy ] were solely concerned with the spiritual guidance of the miners , [ but ] their concern with religion fits in with their policy of making every aspect of life in the colliery villages a matter for their scrutiny ’ ( Waller , 1983 , p. 91 ) . |
| 28 | The happiest occupation for the cornetto is in playing florid divisions on vocal works — chansons , madrigals and the like , to which its ‘ vocal ’ qualities suit it , or in taking the place of the violin in sonatas and canzonas — and not only where it was a declared option , which is what happens in this recording . |
| 29 | Rules are , indeed , important for act utilitarianism , too , and not only as rules of thumb , but rather as felicific habits ; still , the effects on people , s inclination to stick with generally felicific rules is simply a consequence of an individual act to be weighed along with all of its other consequences . |
| 30 | Through our misjudgement of their knowledge , metaphor becomes a lie , and we are left with the disturbing conclusion that the truth of a message is something constructed by sender and receiver , and not only as is usually held to be the casea quality of the sender 's intention or the message itself . |