Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , their neighbour is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object , but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him , to exploit his capacity for work without compensation , to use him sexually without his consent , to seize his possessions , to humiliate him , to cause him pain , to torture and to kill him . |
| 2 | Short hair is strictly forbidden for me not only because of my culture , but because of my lesbianism . |
| 3 | It would not be an easy sinecure and the job specification called for someone not only with wide experience in the profession and a clear understanding of the issues at stake , but also a cool head and tough hide in the face of the increasing political and public interest in auditing . |
| 4 | I learned that the Manitoba Racing Commission had moreover by midafternoon given each of them not only a champagne reception and a splendid lunch but also , as a memento , a framed group photograph of all the owners on the trip . |
| 5 | Although at the time they were made up of an apparently infinite chain of familiar days , I can think of them now only as a whole . |
| 6 | In both , the characters drift somnambulistically through life , unconsciously impelled by emotions of which not only they , but also the author , can give little or no account . |
| 7 | W.H. Smith owed no small part of his fortune to the stalls he had placed on every station platform , many of which not only offered a full range of books and papers but operated lending libraries . |
| 8 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |
| 9 | All evening she 'd been aware of him not only as the uncle of the delinquent who had abducted Suzie , but also on a separate level she had no wish to analyse . |
| 10 | Dick Ryan , who was a real pal of mine not only because he was such a good all-round chap , but also because he was a teacher of English Literature at Ross Collegiate , thought so too . |
| 11 | But since the actors concerned are ordinary members of the community , who probably conceive of themselves not only as kinsmen to one another but also as kinsmen of the supernatural beings whose mythology is being enacted , it once again becomes crucial that the investigator should fully understand the nuances of the kinship language in which the multifaceted relationships between the living and the dead are being expressed . |
| 12 | Colleagues , I gave you twelve thousand eight hundred and twelve reasons for you not only to support by raising your hands , but by actively supporting your fellow members in their fight to retain the Wages Councils and to guard and protect their wages . |
| 13 | ‘ When you are retiring , Your Majesty , ’ he was urged by K. P. Pobedonostsev , who had been his boyhood tutor and from 1880 to 1905 was Procurator of the Holy Synod , ‘ do shut the doors behind you not only in the bedroom but in all adjoining rooms , the hall included … check every evening underneath the furniture . ’ |
| 14 | He knows that the organisations that the hon. Member for Derby , South said commend Labour party policy and many others are arguing amongst themselves about only one thing — how much the Labour party would have to put up interest rates in order to establish its credibility if it were elected . |
| 15 | The crusading Knights brought back with them not only exotic and costly perfumes , but the knowledge of how to distil them . |
| 16 | It would not square with any value she had taught herself to cherish , for she believed herself above such petty sentiments , and could cope with them now only by turning her dislike upon herself . |
| 17 | The facility with which not only politicians but people who should know better argue for education in the name of economic growth is frightening . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She had to admit , however , both to herself and to Tempy , that she was delighted when old Lady Lassiter moved to the Dower House , taking with her not only her maid , but also one or two of the older servants . |
| 20 | The growth of humanitarianism brought with it not only concern for the individual , but an increasing interest in the functioning of the human mind and unconscious thought . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , in the contemporary English village it is this feeling of having been ‘ taken over ’ by outsiders that usually prevails among the agricultural population and with it not only a sense of ‘ loss of community ’ , but an inevitable animus against the invasion of ‘ furriners ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I now detect in them not only tiredness and disapprobation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Many naturalists and others are well aware that the content of one 's own mind determines the way in which not only members of our own species react to us but also those of other species , too . |
| 27 | There is , moreover , a specially paradoxical version of it which arises from certain cases in which not only does extra conceptual content have to be introduced to characterize the human prohibition , but also the introduction of that content stands in conflict with the proposed biological explanation of it . |
| 28 | The third form is ‘ part process ’ in which not only is head office administration spatially separated but the actual production process is split up into discrete bits which are carried out at different spatial locations . |
| 29 | In a fourth condition subjects were given a description in which not only was sentence ( 3 ) removed but also the internal structure of the story was disrupted by altering the temporal sequencing of events and removing the causal connection between them . |
| 30 | Indeed it is possible to imagine circumstances in which not only are regional disparities not reduced , but they are further extended . |