Example sentences of "[not/n't] only [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josiah Wedgwood was a major backer of projects forming links to Staffordshire , not only to cheapen the costs of his intake of clay and flints but also because steadier transit on canals reduced the breakage losses in carrying pottery . |
| 2 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 3 | Can an exhaust brake be fitted to my 1989 Range Rover Vogue V8 auto as , on long declines it will gain enough momentum not only to rip the skin off a rice pudding , but take the table and chairs with it . |
| 4 | On the first day of the war the prime minister , Yildirim Akbulut , asked the national assembly not only to sanction the use of the bases for American bombing raids but also to allow the Turkish armed forces themselves to go on the offensive . |
| 5 | Natural and ? or artificial rocks can be used , not only to decorate the tank , but also to conceal the technical equipment . |
| 6 | This serves not only to allow the University to contribute towards the revitalization of the economic life of the province , but to develop courses that relate directly to contemporary society . |
| 7 | Is the Minister interested in building homes in Britain not only to tackle the problem of homelessness but to allow peple to move within the private sector ? |
| 8 | Moreover , the drafter should aim not only to define the obligations of the parties , but also the consequences of a failure to perform . |
| 9 | At low altitudes , it is necessary not only to use the height most effectively to search , but also to retreat gradually to your position , off to one side of the landing area for a good base leg and an easy landing . |
| 10 | To this end , we urge you not only to use the Line yourself for shopping , sightseeing etc. , but also to encourage your friends , acquaintances , neighbours and relatives , who may not even know of the existence of the Line , to use it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But in just a few years computers have made many specialised tasks obsolete , enabling one person not only to do the work of many , but to do many different jobs at once . |
| 13 | He is also writing to John McGregor , the Education Secretary , urging him not only to abandon the idea of additional CTCs but to hand over those in the pipeline to local authorities . |
| 14 | He wrote not only to defend the faith against persecuting governors , sceptical philosophers , and combative rabbis , but also to uphold the authentic tradition against Simon Magus ' followers ( Acts 8 : 9 ) or the adherents of Marcion and the Gnosticizing Platonist Valentine . |
| 15 | They have been used not only to propagate the virtues of tightly-centralized administration , but also to emphasize the dominance of Hindi . |
| 16 | The duty officer has to be on hand , not only to greet the pilots and passengers , but to make sure the plane gets refuelled and baggage is taken off into the airport . |
| 17 | In such cases they were keen not only to support the members in offering advice but also expressed the hope that training would serve to raise awareness of school issues , in order to inform discussion and help the headteacher in decision-making . |
| 18 | The external assistance received was still far below the levels needed not only to implement the Sandinistas ' social policies but also to sustain the costs of destabilization and war . |
| 19 | l The intent has been not only to describe the activity , but also to surround it with the appropriate drama . |
| 20 | From this information , taken from the rates valuation rolls , it will be possible not only to describe the social structure of each part of the city but to assess the factors which determined patterns of social segregation : factors such as income , the operation of the speculative building market , employment , the role of local government , recreational facilities , and industrial and commercial enterprise . |
| 21 | From this information , taken from the rates valuation rolls , it will be possible not only to describe the social structure of each part of the city but to assess the factors which determined patterns of social segregation : factors such as income , the operation of the speculative building market , employment , the role of local government , recreational facilities , and industrial and commercial enterprise . |
| 22 | The white boys impute an imaginary position of advantage to blacks , which allows them not only to deny the actual conditions of black oppression , but to claim them as their own , in order to justify exclusionary practices which keep blacks ‘ one down ’ and themselves ‘ one up ’ . |
| 23 | The data we have at the moment suggest that we should reach our targets about 80% of the time , but our aim over the years will be not only to reach the targets in a higher proportion of cases but also to make the targets more difficult . |
| 24 | Thus the extreme subjectivism of , for example , the novels of Virginia Woolf , belongs within the same formation as the economic interventionism of Keynes , who wanted not only to preserve the economic system by rationalizing it but to do this so that , within that achieved stability , the real processes of civilized life could be extended , undisturbed . |
| 25 | The hide is a good place to spend some time , not only to see the more common bird species such as heron , coot and several kinds of tit , but you might also be lucky enough to spot less common birds such as the great spotted woodpecker and the kingfisher . |
| 26 | This fat book is a worthy attempt not only to educate the electorate but to inform candidates of all parties and of none ; they is even some entertainment offered in the shape of ‘ essays ’ by Guardian scribblers such as Hugo Young , Andrew Rawnsley and David McKie . |
| 27 | It tends not only to slow the sphere significantly , but it may also affect its intended direction . |
| 28 | He argued that the purpose of the age of consent included in the Wolfenden proposals was ‘ not only to deter the old from corrupting the young , but to deter the young from allowing themselves to be corrupted and , furthermore , from misbehaving with each other ’ . |
| 29 | They will be needed not only to compile the initial list but also for reference purposes . |
| 30 | The United States government has the power , not only to compel the European governments to make peace , but also to reassure the populations by making itself the guarantor of the peace . |