Example sentences of "[v-ing] not only to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He suggests that authenticity can be understood as relating not only to the language selected to be taught but the task on which the learner is engaged and the social setting which is created in the classroom . |
| 2 | The Bill gives the Secretary of State wide-ranging new powers , relating not only to capping but to the vast number of orders and regulations that he will be able to issue , and even to the grants that will be given to London 's voluntary organisations . |
| 3 | But these are allegorical landscapes , rich in symbolism relating not only to the public domain of universally recognised codes but also to the artist 's personal mythologies . |
| 4 | However , in the USA , the chemical fallout from industry and agriculture has prompted an environmental expert to warn of the many unseen air pollutants which are not covered by the Clean Air Act and are damaging not only to human health — linked to ills from leukaemia to heart disease — but are implicated in the formation of ‘ acid rain' which has devastated vast tracts of forest ( Begley , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State will take the case to his colleagues in the Council of Ministers and ask them to look again at the proposals , which would be damaging not only to British industry but to industries — including tourism — right across the Community . |
| 6 | It is difficult to provide an outright basis for this antipathy towards insider dealing , owing not only to the speculative nature of the inquiry but also because conclusive data does not exist and indeed is not likely ever to exist . |
| 7 | Given the size of large corporations , this is impossible , owing not only to the cognitive limits of human beings , which can tolerate only a severely bounded form of rationality ( March and Simon , 1958 , ch. 7 ) , but also to ‘ process limits ’ . |
| 8 | So began a glorious episode in Hindu legend , leading not only to Ravana 's defeat at Rama 's hands , but , centuries later , to problems for the secular forces ruling modern India . |
| 9 | The implications of this legacy were manifold , leading not only to strains and tensions in the Plantagenets ' relations with their English subjects but also to positive benefits for the kingdom of England . |
| 10 | Jordan hoped that the conference would work towards a solution " leading not only to the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Arab occupied lands , including Arab Jerusalem , but also to the delineation of Israel 's permanent borders , and finally peace " . |
| 11 | The wording of the job advert can say much about the school and the direction in which it 's moving not only to potential applicants but to a much wider audience . |
| 12 | Winston Churchill 's writings and speeches have the same quality of speaking not only to the mind but to the heart . |
| 13 | In its origin [ Christianity ] presents to man and woman a glorious picture of sexual integrity : the Son of God who has become man and flesh , knowing from inside his Father 's work and perfecting it in the total self-giving of himself , not only of his spiritual but precisely also of his physical powers , giving not only to one individual but to all . |