Example sentences of "[pron] [not/n't] only [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I not only want to get married but I fully intend to do so as soon as possible , and to you , not to Dana . |
| 2 | All I would say to you is that the very small primary schools I not only have to doubt the financial viability , but I personally sometimes would doubt that the National Curriculum can be delivered to a school where you 've got an age range between five and eleven and you 've only got thirty or forty children , and that is a personal point of view , which I have , erm having seen many of our schools , and I believe that the problems that some of our large urban schools have , with thirty to a class packed in , is also something we should address and give careful thought to when we are resourcing education . |
| 3 | They will also try to inculcate you with a spurious respect for a ‘ culture ’ which not only fails to distinguish between what is good and what is profitable but which can not distinguish between substance and insubstantiality . |
| 4 | There was one member whose sight was so bad that when she read she not only had to prop a second pair of spectacles on top of the pair already resting on her nose , but also had to stand under the standard lamp almost pressed against the light bulb . |
| 5 | Her hands moved to unbutton his shirt , and , that done , she not only wanted to stroke the golden down on his body , but to see that body , to see him . |
| 6 | Pundits decried the successful methods taken by the majority , who not only wanted to live within their means but did so , as old-fashioned and ‘ Victorian ’ , out of step with 1990s climate of opinion . |
| 7 | There were , in short , pious men and women who not only failed to find it blasphemous , but regarded it as an integral part of their belief — as integral , say , as Peter 's role is to the Church of Rome . |
| 8 | To holiday here you not only get to feel a lot closer to God 's earth , but you also get to feel closer to your fellow man , and there 's not many places that make you feel like that ! |
| 9 | The whole interview reminded him of the English card game in which you not only had to guess what cards your opponent held , but decide what he thought yours were , and so on . |
| 10 | It takes a complete turn to replace the shell and prepare to fire , so you not only fail to shoot this turn but you can not shoot next turn either . |
| 11 | You not only have to deal with people questioning her musical ability , but also just that constant male assault . |
| 12 | However , due to insufficient financing , we not only had to ask for benefits , but also can not take on ourselves new obligations , as was done by the rest of the participants in the protocol . " |
| 13 | But when we come to the interpersonal function , we not only have to account for the literary work itself as a discourse between author and reader , but we have to reckon with the phenomenon of " embedded discourse " : the occurrence of discourse within discourse , as when the author reports dialogue between fictional characters . |
| 14 | To these people , we not only have to offer an attractive package but to be more visible , especially during these troubled times . |
| 15 | Again , throwing by hand , throwing stick or catapult , is only as accurate as our individual capabilities and means that we not only have to throw accurately , but also cast accurately — and we must do this in both instances every time we retrieve for another cast . |
| 16 | I sought to explain to him then and before that we not only need to sort out finance but to get on with distributing the food that they can grow , with the production of the food that they do not grow , and sort out their system of feeding the people . |
| 17 | In order to reconstitute purposeful and meaningful administrative acts we not only need to save the different communicative acts but also to be able to reconstitute their inter-relationships in real time . |
| 18 | Hence , we not only need to eat and drink , but we also enjoy it ; and friendships not only give us the security of being in a group , but also pleasure . |
| 19 | Men are less fortunate , since they not only have to cope with the cultural fear of showing emotion , but also with the dismissive and often lewd attitudes to women with which they are surrounded . |
| 20 | As black children go through the education system , they not only learn to speak English , they also gain qualifications , which help them with jobs , and acquire British cultural values , which enable them to assimilate . |
| 21 | It 's true that the show has to go on but if such behaviour caught on I 'd be bound to go on and say , ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , so-and-so is n't coming ’ because they not only want to appear on the show , they want to produce it as well ! ’ |
| 22 | It not only dared to enter the domain of philosophy by offering a critique of epistemology but also brought with it the heresy of relativism . |
| 23 | As he said , he not only had to learn the very complicated lines but also how to copy Coward 's abdominal breathing techniques . |
| 24 | This week just past he not only failed to anticipate the row , he then reacted too slowly to it . |
| 25 | Dwyer told the players how he wanted to win the two-match series against Scotland and how he not only wanted to reclaim the Bledisloe Cup from the All Blacks but complete Australia 's first ever 3–0 series whitewash . |
| 26 | In seeking to solve this second problem of semantic exactitude , he not only fails to solve the problem of making meanings plain to the public but actually makes that problem a good deal more complex . |