Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] only [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reporter was ungentlemanly enough not only to do the calculation and obtain the correct answer but also to print it in the society column . |
| 2 | The dolphin 's echolocation system is good enough not only to allow it to find fish but also to select its favourite food . |
| 3 | They painted a picture of Mr X as a really bright cookie — bright enough not only to run a crooked merchant bank , but to pull the wool over the eyes of the psychologists . |
| 4 | Essentially what all are saying is that a right to consent to medical treatment , whether required under the common law ( see Gillick 's case ) or under statute ( section 8 ) , must and does carry with it a right not only to refuse consent to treatment , but to refuse the treatment itself . |
| 5 | Members of the Irish Dail feel pressure , they say , to look after constituents , because their support may slip away not only to rival parties but to other members of their own . |
| 6 | A purpose of Clarkson 's History was thus not only to delineate a common pattern of consciousness but to promote it as a contribution to energising the internal networks of antislavery for future struggles . |
| 7 | Fortunately this is seldom actually the case with practical materials because , in order to produce a new fracture surface , we have generally not only to break all the chemical bonds at the fracture surface ( which requires only the free surface energy ) , we also disturb the molecular structure of the material to a depth which is sometimes very considerable ; in doing so we break a great many other bonds as well . |
| 8 | You want a sturdy young fellow here not only to lift that but also those sacks of sugar and such . ’ |
| 9 | They knew that the village police sergeant and constable were there not only to deal with ordinary crime but to report on any political activity in their district . |