Example sentences of "[not/n't] only [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system will handle not only telephone calls and data messages but other signals that need high bandwidth , for instance those that encode TV pictures or large stores of computerised information . |
| 2 | It is not that these judgements should not be made , but that where subjective judgements are made by the teacher she should be aware that this is so and be prepared , not only to give reasons for her judgements , but also to be sufficiently flexible to change them in the light of particular circumstances . |
| 3 | Overall , the objective is not only to give prominence to the life and work of a highly original and much underrated communist intellectual and novelist , but also to scrutinise the example of Nizan as a guiding principle for action in the present . |
| 4 | It is important not only to give time but to be genuinely interested in your teenagers and in what interests them . |
| 5 | Those still with troublesome suspicions should have asked themselves how Pakistan 's fast men could have survived the Cornhill Test series had they been doing something illegal to the ball while on view not only to alert umpires and batting opponents but to thousands of onlookers at the various grounds and before the probing eye of television . |
| 6 | This new development has not only alarmed WACC but also such professional organisations as the International Association for Mass Communication Research ( IAMCR ) , the MacBride Roundtable and many regional bodies concerned with a ‘ new order ’ . |
| 7 | The sonic pulse systems emitted by toothed whales are directional and most species seem to use them not only to detect food but also to make fine distinctions on the basis of the echoes . |
| 8 | Such variations not only confuse users about the forms of headings , but also make it difficult for a cataloguer inserting a new heading for local use to discern the principles which should be heeded to retain consistency of approach . |
| 9 | What we 've , so what it means is we have to make it clear to those people who are authorised to sign off invoices that their signature not only authorises accounts to pay it but also signifies that the delivery has been checked and is erm , is adequate . |
| 10 | Other new features include international support , not only handling languages , but also country 's financial and accounting vagaries and European value-added tax ( Intrastat ) reporting . |
| 11 | Other new features include international support , not only handling languages , but also country 's financial and accounting vagaries and European value-added tax ( Intrastat ) reporting . |
| 12 | FERMACELL not only meets BS 476 , Part 22 , but also has longer built-in reserves than its direct competitors . |
| 13 | This pernicious combination of rising inflation and rising unemployment , usually referred to as ‘ stagflation ’ , not only led economists to abandon the simple Phillips curve as a tool for modelling an inflationary process . |
| 14 | When the fell race became a regular part of Burnsall Feast Sports , the runners not only wore clothes but also their hobnailed working boots . |
| 15 | It 's not only riding skills that count when considering a holiday , but the ability to cope in unfamiliar surroundings . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not only riding skills that count when considering a holiday , but the ability to cope in unfamiliar surroundings . ’ |
| 17 | It makes you aware of how much power there exists within yourself , not only to resist oppression , but also to oppress others . |
| 18 | John goes further and not only calls Judas a thief but also says that he was chosen by God to perform this evil deed . |
| 19 | Biological filtration systems not only control ammonia and nitrite levels , they also promote the degradation of organic matter and reduce the accumulation of mulm in aquaria . |
| 20 | Underground nuclear tests not only cause displacement in the earth , they also cause landslides , earthquakes , floods , typhoons , hurricanes and tidal waves , according to Ikram Karimov , deputy director of the Azerbaijani Institute of Geology . |
| 21 | He not only dreamed Pantisocracy , he preached it as well . |
| 22 | Given the evidence that punishment which immediately precedes a forbidden act ( rarely possible for busy parents ) maximizes resistance to temptation and minimizes guilt , you might try not only to sanction misbehaviour promptly but ( where possible ) forestall your child 's action just as it gets under way . |
| 23 | And women have become more impatient with each other for allowing the divisions which men have created historically — class , racism and heterosexuality — to continue to divide us as women from finding ways of working politically that do not only liberate women but transform the systems of oppression themselves . |
| 24 | However , Ancient Society also differed from earlier work because of the high quality of the scholarly work on which it was based , because of the sympathy of the writer for primitives , and because it not only defined stages but in many cases suggested mechanisms which explained why one stage should change to another . |
| 25 | This environment not only encourages incompetence but also facilitates fraud . |
| 26 | Now , for the first time , I was surrounded by people who not only had cancer , but unlike those in hospital , knew that they had it . |
| 27 | Not only had £250,000 worth of equipment fallen off the back of a submarine , but the torpedo firing system and the periscope were out of commission as well ! |
| 28 | By the 1930s not only had admission to a profession become the goal of every middle-class family in the land , but they had come to seem bulwarks of society . |
| 29 | Not only had Yolland been deceived about the BCR 's intentions at Stretford Bridge ; he had also failed to realise that the need to reverse trains at Lydham Heath made tender first running on some part of the line inevitable , whether or not there was a turntable at the lower end of the railway . |
| 30 | But , on getting her act together later the next day , Laura had been appalled to discover that not only had Ross already left for Australia — but she 'd been given a small attic room next to the children 's nursery . |