Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adv] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students in other Community countries traditionally take wide-ranging curricula which include languages , philosophy , history , law , political science etc , disciplines which provide them not only with directly relevant skills for employment , but also ensure a common set of references and cultural values which are vital to mutual understanding and cooperation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Remember , we want you not only to lose weight but to feel really healthy with your body in good nutritional balance . |
| 4 | Now doctors at the Stoke Mandeville Spinal Injuries Unit say he probably only has a one in twenty chance of making a good recovery . |
| 5 | Nowadays , however , specialists often restrict themselves not only to a particular type of find , but also to a specific archaeological period . |
| 6 | The letters of Gilbert Foliot , successively abbot of Gloucester , bishop of Hereford and London in the twelfth century , are singularly revealing , because they show us not only the range of a large family circle , but the strength of feeling which could exist between distant relatives . |
| 7 | Boy did not throw these letters away ; he kept them all , and indeed read them not only on the day that they arrived but again and again during the week before the arrival of the next one , but he did not keep these letters in his box , and he did not reply to them either . |
| 8 | You then consult that on the screen and print it out only if you think you are going to want to look up the same word again . |
| 9 | We owe it not only to the people of Oxford but to those of Birmingham , Cardiff , Elswick , and even of rural Shropshire who have suffered . |
| 10 | I disclose it now only to help you save your niece . |
| 11 | Then you come along , and you tell me not only who made it but what his name was , how many eggs he laid and the colour of his tentacles . |
| 12 | Somehow Koons has turned what might have been titillating into something with the erotic appeal of a smutty , B-grade slasher film — the images draw you in only by their sheer gross-out power . |
| 13 | Market them not only in this country but abroad . |
| 14 | that would be of interest , sort of allow them not only to be interested but would , would show them a variety of graphic design based on similar ideas . |
| 15 | BELVILLE : Well , I believe she now only waits for you to drive her . |
| 16 | And now Charles said quietly , ‘ Well , as an Englishman , Aunt Nessy , I find you not only a beautiful woman , but an amusing and brilliant one . |
| 17 | As you write , however , you inevitably commit yourself not only to propositions you explicitly assert , but also to other propositions which are implicit in , or presupposed by , the words you actually write down . |
| 18 | As a result , they feel themselves not only homeless but in a total existential crisis — ending up on the dossers circuit removes the last residues of respectability . |
| 19 | ‘ I must pay tribute to them for both Dominic Quinn from Banbridge and John Bailie from Lurgan told me to take my time with the horse and bring him back only when I felt it was right to do so . |
| 20 | Use them not only to record information , but also to explore your understanding of historical topics and issues . |
| 21 | The members ' rights of ownership entitle them not only to make decisions personally about how their property is to be used , but also to delegate that power to others , and they are free to stipulate what degree of control they require over the discretion ceded by them . |
| 22 | Governing bodies must develop strategies for cooperation across LEAs which enable them not only to share some resources , but also to apply greater pressure on decisions about the size of the education budget . |
| 23 | The phone rings in the night , you pick it up only to hear heavy breathing , silence or a volley of screamed obscenities . |
| 24 | A lot of the training you do you probably only need to write bullet points . |
| 25 | Do we not only die , but go to hell for what we have suffered ? ’ |
| 26 | I call her so only as a courtesy . ’ |
| 27 | and quite honestly , I think they not only do they not bring them up to do , I mean useful like that , but I thought Ken 's his family never showed any affection any warmth , any caring , any love , and I would do anything for anyone if they just say thank you , but with Ken |
| 28 | We could n't get it forward properly , we could n't pass to each other and they had I think they still only had one chance second half and managed to squeeze it in to get a point . |
| 29 | The important element of them all is undoubtedly the dishonest appropriation of another person 's property — the treating of ‘ tuum ’ as ‘ meum ; ’ and we think it not only logical , but right in principle , to make this the central element of the offence . |
| 30 | And do it not only when their eye is on you and to win their favour , but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord ’ ( Col. 3:22 ) . |