Example sentences of "[adv] [det] but [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only that but a drought in Maharashtra in 1987 and 1988 , probably the most severe of the century in the subcontinent , has caused barely a ripple of news interest in the world . |
| 2 | Not only that but a change in methods of working , in its ethos and what were seen as its privileges , such as index-linked pensions , was to follow . |
| 3 | Not only that but the Board predicted that with its second station it could improve substantially on the Sizewell performance , setting British construction times and operating records among the best in the world . |
| 4 | Not only that but the din caused by , among others , a small group of drummers , who always seem to arrive at various major sporting fixtures in Brazil , hardly helped either . |
| 5 | Not only that but the receptionist may control access to individuals within the organisation and hence play an important role as ‘ gatekeeper ’ to the organisation . |
| 6 | Not only that but the decline of capitalism was of such a character each step taken represented a positive move in the direction of socialism . |
| 7 | He turned down all but a handful — ‘ the handful who came with their hands full , ’ said Lucie , meaning that they bribed their way in . |
| 8 | Washing is not much but the drying is the |
| 9 | By 1982 we had swept up all but a handful of awkward items whose inhabitants , for varying reasons , did n't want to be or could n't be ‘ nationalised ’ — which was very untidy and inconvenient of them . |
| 10 | The loan book must contain virtually all the liverymen of the various companies , though not necessarily all the yeomen , nor indeed any but a fraction of the membership of the poorest crafts : only a single weaver is listed , though there was a livery of thirty and a full membership of seventy in 1546 . |
| 11 | Yet all but a fraction of the carbon in living things originates as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ; as we will discuss below , it is turned into organic molecules by plants by the process of photosynthesis . |
| 12 | Peter said very little but the glow was still on him . |