Example sentences of "[not/n't] only [vb -s] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And maybe the external factor interacts with the immune system and the immune system acting , over zealously as it were , not only responds to the invader , but leads to a bystander damage of the nervous system in the process . |
| 2 | However , ta'kwakomena not only refers to responsibility , but to personal autonomy in general . |
| 3 | In other words , when he was talking about psychology , and these are quotes from Darwin 's Expression of the Emotions , Darwin not only refers to acquired characteristics , which he believes in , but he even refers to evolution by will . |
| 4 | In this case , Brenda not only accommodates to her father 's language variety ( Standard English , in terms of syntax ) but actually echoes his words in agreement in the first part of her turn . |
| 5 | If ignored , stress not only contributes to physical disorders such as heart disease , high blood pressure , ulcers and asthma , it can also lead to a variety of mental illnesses of which insomnia , depression and irritability are just early symptoms . |
| 6 | They are frequently semi-derelict , insanitary and damp and their restoration not only contributes to the renewal of the local housing stock but provides employment for local builders and traders . |
| 7 | The good news is that this protective effect not only extends to babies , it applies to the nursing mothers too . |
| 8 | For example , how many bridesmaids you have not only relates to the look of the wedding but also its cost . |
| 9 | The fact that so few complied not only testifies to the courage of those who signed , but also gives the lie to the notion that they were somehow conned into signing or that they did so out of temporary frustration with events immediately following the Danish vote . |
| 10 | This ruling caste has come to rely on Italy 's huge public sector as a patronage machine for rewarding friends and supporters , a system that not only leads to corruption but also acts as a break on much needed free market reforms . |
| 11 | However if the glucose is maintained high , in other words if the stimulus is sustained , what we see is a succession of depolarizing spikes , and the reason we see it is because this elevation of free calcium , not only leads to a insulin secretion , it also leads to the opening of calcium activated K channels which tend to hyperpolarize the membrane . |
| 12 | In making time to provide reflection the head not only has to be clear about the relative priority of helping out , taking on chores and providing workaday leadership but also has to have confidence in the extent to which his or her colleagues expect leadership . |
| 13 | Processed food , therefore , not only tends to be deficient in essential nutrients but also contains an increasing array of possibly toxic artificial chemicals . |
| 14 | A relative concept highlights not only costs to physical health . |
| 15 | On top of this recurrent expenditure , Gloucester was pressing for a major rebuilding programme , to include not only repairs to the castle and town walls , but the construction of 120 new houses at an estimated cost of £1,600 . |
| 16 | On top of this recurrent expenditure , Gloucester was pressing for a major rebuilding programme , to include not only repairs to the castle and town walls , but the construction of 120 new houses at an estimated cost of £1,600 . |
| 17 | As the embodiment of a higher law , it thus not only needs to be distinguished from ordinary law but also needs to be protected from the passing whims of politicians — hence the introduction of extraordinary procedures for its amendment . |
| 18 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 19 | That not only applies to such distinctions as race and gender but also to work . |
| 20 | The business constituency not only wants to be as little burdened as possible with the costs of complying with regulation , it is also critical of what it sees as inordinate amounts of money being spent on pollution control by bloated , publicly-funded organizations . |