Example sentences of "[adv] only a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tobermory was not only a trading centre but an administrative ‘ capital ’ . |
| 2 | I learned that the Manitoba Racing Commission had moreover by midafternoon given each of them not only a champagne reception and a splendid lunch but also , as a memento , a framed group photograph of all the owners on the trip . |
| 3 | You can win not only a Megadrive 16-bit computer console ( exquisitely styled to produce faster and smoother games playing scenarios and requiring greater levels of skill and dexterity , it sez here ) but also a brand new Michael Jackson game to go with it . |
| 4 | It contains not only a Rope Museum and Blacksmith 's Shop but a working watermill too . |
| 5 | The versatile Starter Kit contains not only a 50ft Soakerhose , but also 10ft of garden hose , and a set of hose couplings , plus a flow control regulator and a 16-page instruction manual . |
| 6 | Not only a household name , now it was a household face with household heart as well . |
| 7 | Telephone Frank turns out to be not only a money expert , or an expert on not having any . |
| 8 | In a society constructing socialism an architect is not only a building engineer and a street engineer , but also an engineer of human souls . ’ |
| 9 | The unions want not only a pay rise but a proper pay mechanism for the future , and that 's where the talks could still fail . |
| 10 | In addition to this , he has crossed the border gaining not only a ZPT qualification , ( see Appendix 1 ) , but also SchH III . |
| 11 | It is not only a colour variety but also a more milky strain of the breed and there have been dairy herds of the beloved ‘ Belties ’ , though they would be better described as dual-purpose cattle . |
| 12 | In the first place , there was not only a sex difference but a gap of glaring dimensions politically , socially and even of age , between those who promoted the introduction of women to printing and those who opposed it . |
| 13 | For Mrs walker , that periosd was not only a worryiong time but a costly one . |
| 14 | At Twickenham , he is going to have to play a full part in a Scottish back-row who — which has not been the case for some years — will be having to cope with , in Dewi Morris and Stuart Barnes , not only a breaking scrum-half , but a running stand-off who attacks the gain-line . |
| 15 | The definitionalist might seek to save his position by arguing for a general principle of law to the effect that to intend an act is to intend it under a full description and that therefore in all crimes where the actus reus contains not only a conduct element but also circumstances and consequences , mens rea is to be taken as being ‘ coextensive with the actus reus . ’ |
| 16 | The taxpayer received not only a capital sum when the companies were sold but now also receives a substantial annual dividend . |
| 17 | The palace contained one of Bohemia 's finest picture collections and here was not only a picture gallery , but also a collection of graphics , a most important library , and a collection of sculpture put together by Count Jan Hertvík Nostic in the 17C . |
| 18 | One could build not only a railway terminal there , but the fifth London airport and no one would notice . |
| 19 | Not only a trade union , it also offered protection to those released from bonded labour , to the slumdwellers of Raipur , child labourers , farmers , women deserted or abused for the sake of dowry . |
| 20 | Mr Justice Douglas Brown said that the defendants were negligent ( 1 ) in failing to appreciate that they were dealing with a husband of substantial means who might well be able to afford to pay , not only a lump sum , but also substantial periodical payments ; ( 2 ) in failing to obtain full disclosure of the husband 's financial affairs ; ( 3 ) in failing to realise that because of family trusts and wills the husband had an expectation of further assets ; ( 4 ) in advising the wife to obtain a mortgage when she had no taxable income ; ( 5 ) in recommending a settlement which removed the wife 's undoubted right to maintenance ; and ( 6 ) in failing to use ouster proceedings to remove the husband from the matrimonial home . |
| 21 | And this was not only a Cambridge graduate but a Cambridge resident . |
| 22 | The Conwy Castle Information Centre includes not only a tourist information centre but a shop selling a wide range of quality gifts and publications together with an exhibition on Edward I and his castles in Wales . |
| 23 | Quadrats of a large scale had been used before to determine the precise range of various species , but Clements and Pound marked off small areas , often only a metre square , so that every plant of every species could be identified . |
| 24 | If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences . |
| 25 | There was a soldier behind a desk which was really only a trestle table with a grey blanket on it . |
| 26 | Digital Equipment Corp also has a copy of the paper , and some of the Common Open Software Environment people think that DEC is now only a photo opportunity away from announcing that it is becoming a member too . |
| 27 | Digital Equipment Corp also has a copy of the paper , and some of the COSE people think DEC is now only a photo opportunity away from announcing that it 's becoming a COSE too . |
| 28 | I knew in advance that I would have to retrace my steps on this road , to get to the Skye boat at the Kyle of Lochalsh , as there is nowadays only a summer ferry to the island from Glenelg . |
| 29 | What makes it so simple is that , once installed , the front-end of Menuworks will take control on booting , and access to your software is then only a cursor key away . |
| 30 | That 's including Chippingfield if you had seen it as we saw it when we came here you would recognise how much work has gone into building the town because I was on the the council then I was asked if I would stand for the council which was then only a parish council there was no urban district council that was n't formed for four or five years afterwards and of course , we had to fight for lights everything that , er that we needed we had to fight for because there was no lighting on Netteswell Road where our children were going to school , and there were little ones . |