Example sentences of "[am/are] [not/n't] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't have to prove to anyone that I am not only a serve and volleyer . |
| 2 | These deposits are not only a potential source of copper , zinc and other metals , but are also of great interest to oceanographers for the insights they offer into the formation of metals on the ocean floor . |
| 3 | The lists of attainments in Profiles of Development are not only a means to record learning , they are also an intervention in teaching — an attempt by the authors to define in more detail the National Curriculum as it applies to ‘ individuals for whom there is concern over progress ’ . |
| 4 | We can see also , as between the Godwinians and Bloomsbury , that the external relations of such formations are not only a matter of internally defined intentions , but of the actual and possible relations of the whole social order . |
| 5 | Such records are not only a stimulus for enthusiasm and an aid to forward planning but have communication value for a team of staff as well as for parents , and help continuity in case of staff change . |
| 6 | His observations made in 1695 are not only an important source of early medicine ( and therefore of world significance ) but are also a vital source of Hebridean social history . |
| 7 | All these things prevent the body 's energy flowing smoothly , and those energy ‘ road-blocks ’ are not only the result of stress — they can also compound the problem . |
| 8 | Within the garden boundaries are not only the Natural History Museum , the Planetarium , the City Zoo and the Palazzo Dugnani , but also the small hill of Monte Merlo , several springs , a lake and ten monuments to important Milanese inhabitants of the nineteenth-century ( the Top Ten , as it were . ) |
| 9 | ( Gooseberries are not only the familiar green , there are also yellow , red and white varieties . ) |
| 10 | These criteria will include ‘ the material concomitants of the process of mental ‘ domestication ’ , for these are not only the manifestations of thought , invention , creativity , they also shape its future forms . |
| 11 | They are not only the products of communication but also part of its determining features ' ( ibid. p. 9 ) . |
| 12 | At stake are not only the interests of potential motorway users and of persons whose land might be compulsorily acquired to provide a route for the motorway ; also involved are the inhabitants of villages and towns which will be relieved of through-traffic by the motorway ; British Rail may have an interest in inhibiting the development of alternative means for the transport of goods ; improved transport and communications facilities provided by the motorway may benefit some businesses at the expense of others ; and motorways have , of course , serious environmental effects which lovers of the countryside and people who live near the proposed route will be anxious to avoid . |
| 13 | My eyes are my most beloved possession — Take away not my eyes , if everything else crumbles to nothingness , The eyes are not only the windows of the soul but in them reflect the beauty of life . |
| 14 | … Where there are not only the ingredients of an express or implied contract to waive privilege but also a fiduciary relation or other elements of public policy making recognition of privilege unconscionable , the waiver of privilege may be specifically enforced and the witness held in contempt for failure to make disclosure . |
| 15 | However , these matters are not only the province of economics , architecture or planning . |
| 16 | ‘ Madame Craig , you are not only the greatest living writer of the detective novel , you are also a detective yourself ! ’ |
| 17 | What is more , these forms are not only the same genus , but also the same species , and the Nevadan specimens have even ( very justifiably ) been put in the same subspecies as a form in the Austrian Alps . |
| 18 | There are not only the Mexicans , Salvadoreans , Nicaraguans , Guatemalans , Costa Ricans and the other medley of middle American ethnic groups , but Chinese , Japanese , Koreans , Campucheans , Vietnamese , and the other ethnic groups from South East Asia particularly the Filipinos . |
| 19 | Women are not only the embodiment of heavenly qualities but can also aspire t find and occupy a heavenly space . |
| 20 | Parliamentary Labour Party — are not only the largest national group in European Parliament ; they are also part of the largest political group , the Socialist Group , within the European Parliament . |
| 21 | You 're not only the man with the oil-can ; you 're making the machinery work . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I do like to think that I 'm not only a guy who does electronics ; I 'm a player , too . |
| 23 | As I 'm not only an Old Benedictine , but was in the same set as Matron — God help me ! — no-one 'll object after that . |