Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |
| 2 | That means helping them not only to make any additional or different arrangements to what is ‘ normally available for all ’ to meet the needs of particular children , but also to review and develop the general curriculum , so that ‘ what is normally available for all ’ can itself be gradually transformed to provide better learning opportunities for all children in the future . |
| 3 | The burrow has become their main survival device , saving them not only from swooping birds but also from earthbound predators too large to follow them . |
| 4 | He painted this picture of his father-in-law : ‘ Over his kindred he held a wary and chary care , which bountifully was expressed when occasion so required , reputing himself not only principal of the family but a general father to them all … as for frank , well ordered and continual hospitality he outwent all show of competence ; spare but discreet of speech : better conceiving than delivering ; equally stout and kind , not upon lightness of humour , but upon soundness of judgement : inclined to commiseration , ready to relieve . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Since DTS started , God has been teaching me not only through the lectures , but through my time alone with Him and also through living in close quarters with people ! |
| 7 | That p Oh I was doing nothing there only tidying up round there . |
| 8 | Therefore ( b ) when you say ‘ this appears white ’ , you are saying something not only about your present experience , but also about all of these other occasions . |
| 9 | William of Normandy , in his mid-twenties , was already married to Matilda , the daughter of Baldwin of Flanders , flouting Pope Leo 's injunction , linking him not only to Lille and Bruges and Ghent , but to Tostig , the son of Earl Godwin who had married Judith of Flanders , Matilda 's aunt . |
| 10 | Though the hall 's notoriously unhelpful acoustic is reflected in the relatively dry sound , the Teldec engineers have done wonders in giving it not only a fair bloom but in conveying an extreme dynamic range . |
| 11 | In 1912 Duke represented the United States at the Olympic Games in Stockholm and won the gold medal in the 100 metres freestyle , losing it again only in 1924 to Johnny Weissmuller : ‘ It took Tarzan to beat me ’ , he used to say . |
| 12 | One of the most exciting events towards the year end was the transfer of the Geotech site investigation team at Uphall to Environmental , giving us not only a stronger resource in geology and land assessment , but also a well established presence in Scotland from which we hope to offer all our other services in future . |
| 13 | Does the Secretary of State intend to thank those who have given service to Queen and country by making them not only jobless , but homeless ? |
| 14 | It seems to me , not only that this does not appear , but that the contrary appears ; for the plaintiff before the letter had already bound himself to marry , by placing himself not only under a moral , but under a legal , obligation to marry , and the testator knew it . |
| 15 | Because ‘ this vast and terrifying disintegration ’ , as described by Leavis and Thompson in 1933 , was thought to be showing itself not only in the alleged decline of literary and artistic values , but also in its effects upon personal identity , family life and the destruction of community . |
| 16 | They 're making it so only the rich can be educated . |
| 17 | Telling the poorer workers that others were producing more , simply led to demoralisation ; they already knew that , and telling them so only made them feel worse . |
| 18 | Under Clifford , Palmer bided his time , keeping to himself his misgivings about the governor 's achievements in centralization , and exerting himself openly only to oppose Clifford 's proposal that lawyers should be allowed to plead in the provincial courts , thereby unacceptably diluting what had been under Lugard the Resident 's almost unrestricted jurisdiction over them . |
| 19 | competition , for remember , at that stage he will be hitting you not only with his carefully laid plan for the first phase of his attack , but also , without any doubt whatsoever , he will have his reinforcements grouping for a second and third attack . |
| 20 | Charles of Blois was the candidate favoured by Philip VI , and Edward accordingly supported Montfort , offering him not only military assistance but also the earldom of Richmond , with which the Breton ducal family had a connection going back to the Norman Conquest . |
| 21 | Ms Washington shows the Afro-american woman writer as an insistent voice raised against the conditions and stereotyping of Black people , while fighting sexist condescension and attempts at silencing her not only from the white literary establishment but from Black male critics as well . |