Example sentences of "[adj] not [adv] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This not only took the edge off the bitter taste , but also gave the drink a warm , attractive colour that looked ( even if nothing else about it was similar ) something like the superior imported French wines . |
| 2 | This not only kept the suit in good condition and therefore prolonged its life but also provided him with a smart outfit always ready at short notice , as now . |
| 3 | This not only involved the SCCs in vocational guidance and after-care in a formal sense prior to the creation of juvenile labour exchanges , but also it provided an influential role for the ASEA , certainly for its practice . |
| 4 | This not only saved the art of riding , but proved of great benefit to the horse . ’ |
| 5 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 6 | This not only altered the strategic military balance in favour of the rebels , it also gave them an important psychological boost . |
| 7 | This not only entitled the State which manufactured and certified the aircraft type to participate formally in an investigation by means of an officially accredited representative , and so make their very considerable resources and knowledge available to the investigators , but it also ensured that when an accident occurred in one of those States which did not possess a well developed aviation industry , all the necessary expertise would be forthcoming and available to the investigation . |
| 8 | This not only gave the masters an extra hour 's work but saved them having to pay the breakfast allowance of 1½d ( 0.6p ) . |
| 9 | This not only strained the backs of my arms but also made the aluminium legs screech against the ground , which set my teeth on edge . |
| 10 | This not only marked the end of the Brezhnev Doctrine , it also heralded a rapid disintegration of the Soviet position in Eastern Europe , and brought the Cold War very definitely to an end . |
| 11 | Among the substances produced at Eli Lilly , some not only relaxed the airways but , unexpectedly , made the tissue less sensitive to adrenaline . |
| 12 | The BDN of August 1971 not only displayed the BDA 's new emblem , but , records in large print : FOR " THE BRITISH DEAF AND DUMB ASSOCIATION " NOW READ " THE BRITISH DEAF ASSOCIATION . " |
| 13 | But after she had finished the first part of her lecture ; after slightly nodding her head to the generous applause ; after the lights had gone up again ; after Ashenden had said ( as every chairman since Creation had said ) how much everyone had enjoyed the talk and how grateful everyone was that not only had the distinguished speaker fascinated each and every one of them but also had agreed to answer any questions which he was absolutely sure everyone in the room was aching to put to such a distinguished expert in the field … it was only then that Dr Moule was able to survey the two intruders . |
| 14 | He used water-filled rubber bags of varying warmth and softness , and found that the warmest and softest not only attracted the piglets but stimulated the change from nosing and mouthing to searching and sucking . |
| 15 | Queen Victoria went there for the first , very influential time in 1889 , though even before that the surprisingly large English community in Pau had begun to colonize it , to such an extent that by the 1870s not only did the Church of England have congregations in Biarritz but they were already schismatic and the Archbishop of Canterbury had to travel out on a pastoral visit to try and stifle the factionalism . |
| 16 | By the early 1970s not only had the general inflationary climate changed for the worse , but at the same time the Bretton Woods arrangements were breaking down . |
| 17 | The autumn of 1529 not only saw the fall from power of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey , who had dominated religious and political life in England for the previous fifteen years , but also the beginning of the first session of the Reformation Parliament . |