Example sentences of "[verb] not only [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pentecost did not only mean the offering of the firstfruits to God ( and what remarkable firstfruits of the Spirit were offered to the Lord that day as three thousand people believed , were baptised , and joined the company of the disciples praising God in the temple ) : first-century Jews would also have recalled the giving of the law on Mount Sinai ( see Jubilees 1:1 , 6:17 ) . |
| 2 | It did not only transform the political and military map : by the destruction which it wrought , unparalleled in previous human history in its scale , it hurled a black question mark against the confidence in the onward and upward progress of Christian civilisation which had so strongly characterised Liberal Theology , and forced the bitter question whether the advanced theological thought of the nineteenth century as a whole had not been far too unaware of the darker side of human nature , too optimistic about innate human capacity for good , too willing to take contemporary culture at its own high evaluation of itself , and overall too disposed to take God for granted , and to assume that he was somehow simply ‘ given ’ in what it regarded as the highest ethical , spiritual and religious values of mankind . |
| 3 | The police did not only employ the law of criminal procedure in their tactical battle against the striking miners . |
| 4 | Artists do not only record the world about them . |
| 5 | They do not only meet the minimum standards laid down by the English Tourist Board but the even higher standards set by the Brighton and Hove Accommodation Standards Joint Committee ( see the Tourist Charter information on page ii ) . |
| 6 | Financial delegation in the 1990s therefore does not only involve the school having control of its budget . |
| 7 | When Lacan speaks of the Other , he does not only mean the world of concrete others , but indicates an outside symbolic field of language which we are inserted into . |
| 8 | However , the structure of attitudes does not only comprise the explicit justifications and criticisms which might be advanced by the attitude-holder . |
| 9 | Exploring our Shadow does not only reveal the gremlins of our subconscious mind ; it also uncovers some sparkling gems . |
| 10 | In effect , the report is stemming not just from the librarian and does not only concern the library . |
| 11 | But the sexual exploitation of a child does not only take the form of vaginal penetration by the penis . |
| 12 | ‘ [ ‘ Terminus ’ ] in the understanding of the law does not only signify the limits and limitation of time , but also the estate and interest that passes for that time . |