Example sentences of "[adj] not only [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One sees this not only on the ground , travelling through these parts , but it is also brought out clearly on the Ordnance map . |
| 2 | However , management is constrained in this not only by the technical capabilities , but also by the requirement to break even on the basis of rate of return above the norm . |
| 3 | It struck me as a trivial , but irritating error ; the dust-pan would have been conspicuous not only from the five ground-floor doorways opening on to the hall , but also from the staircase and the first-floor balconies . |
| 4 | The extent to which new finds will eventually ease Canada 's problem will of course be dependent not only on the nature of the finds but on the level of demand . |
| 5 | Generally , the idea 's progress through the process is dependent not only on the quality of the idea and its enhancement , but also upon the amount of drive the originator exerts . |
| 6 | Christians were distressed because the age of revelation was over ( and they were acutely conscious of this with the passing of the apostolic generation , as is made clear not only by the speedy recognition in the second century that their writings were determinative for the Christian faith , but also by the deep sense of nostalgia to be found in the earliest of the sub-apostolic writers like Polycarp and Ignatius ) . |
| 7 | The present bridge was built to an adventurous design wherein the cast iron sections forming the arches were pin-jointed not only at the ends but also in the centre of the span . |
| 8 | Like Eliot , More had been interested not only in the classics and Christianity , but also in the East . |
| 9 | Hand-painted in ten different colourways to match the china , the tiles are proving popular not only for the floor and fireplace surrounds , but for brightening up the area around kitchen Agas . |
| 10 | That Ronchey 's move has been made now is due not only to the changed political climate , but also to the fact that the Minister is not a career politician like his recent , ineffective predecessors , but an independent , educated man ( he was a distinguished political journalist before being invited to join the government ) , who instead of getting tied up in his Ministry 's bureaucratic shibboleths , has collected an enlightened group of advisors around him , including the independent scholar Federico Zeri , who enjoys star status in Italy , and Mirella Baracco , the energetic founder of the private ginger group , Napoli 99 , which is managing to get long-closed monuments and churches in that city open to the public . |
| 11 | His success was due not only to the quality of his pens , backed by a five-year warranty , but also to his extensive advertising and publicity efforts . |
| 12 | This was much in vogue in the 1960s , due not only to the fashionable ideas of Marshall McLuhan , but the more serious earlier work by Wiener ( 1948 ) and Shannon and Weaver ( 1949 ) , but as time has passed doubts have grown not so much about its existence , but rather whether it does not constitute two distinct fields of machine and human communication , for which information theory can not provide a unifying paradigm . |
| 13 | On a basically cylindrical figure like the hawk-priestess 's the swelling forms are modelled with far greater strength and subtlety , due not only to the slightly later date and much larger scale : this is the work of a great sculptor . |
| 14 | For the present situation is due not only to the Magoo-like myopia of Washington and its incompetence in the affairs of any part of the globe not actually State-side , startling though these are . |
| 15 | The popularity of Wade 's sculpture was probably due not only to the fact that it was always comprehensible but that it was both ennobling and restrained in equal measure . |
| 16 | It is hoped that this project will be innovative not only in the material resented and analysed , but as a contribution to new modes of scholarly publication . |
| 17 | At the time of the Restoration itself Anglican-Royalist sentiment was strong not only amongst the gentry but also amongst the population at large , whilst there was a marked reaction against the Whigs and in favour of the Tories following the defeat of the Parliamentary Exclusion movement . |
| 18 | The problem is that dependent development seems to be possible not only in the Third World but also in underprivileged areas within the hegemonic countries of the First World . |
| 19 | Even the clocks are wacky not only up the wall but completely off the wall ! |
| 20 | Abolitionists were alert not only to the particular issue of the slave trade but to the larger need to safeguard their deployment of scripture as a powerful instrument of insight into right and wrong . |
| 21 | This significance is visible not only at the ideological and cultural level , but also at the economic and political level . |
| 22 | They are indicative not only of the strength of current Roman catholic social rules and sense of obedience on specified issues at the level of popular religion , but also of the direct power of the hierarchy operating through the state in affairs they considered sacred . |
| 23 | Her remark was indicative not only of the close and exclusive family structure , but also of the petty rivalries and jealousies ( in this case directed at my mother ) within it . |
| 24 | Change is noticeable not only in the craft/supervisory area . |
| 25 | In 1991 , I added Czechoslovakia to the programme and if you select a holiday there or a resort in Poland or Hungary , you will be delighted not only by the beautiful scenery but also by the welcome you will receive . |
| 26 | By the end of the period , the professional values of English studies had been rendered synonymous not only with the central moral force of the " national character " but also with the moral worthiness of the scholar-critic ( living or dead ) . |
| 27 | This group is remarkable not only for the quality of its work , but also for the fact that no individual has ever been known by name ; only the corporate identity has come down across the years . |
| 28 | That rarity , an album without a filler — admire every aspect as Owens finger-flicks his way through the Stax-happy , gospel croons on a couple of things Sam Cooke would have loved to wrap his larynx around , and opts for the more brooding approach on the let's do crunch of ‘ Why You Treat Me This Way ? ’ — ‘ Blues Soul ’ is remarkable not only for the performance of its outfront star , but also for that of the Pete Wingfield-led back-up squad , which nary places a quaver in the wrong place , along with Mike Vernon 's knowing production . |
| 29 | It would appear , furthermore , that the policy of maximising firm value is ideal not only from the point of view of the shareholders , but also from that of society as a whole , since , by giving proper weight to projects with a future pay- off , it strikes an optimal balance between production for present consumption and growth . |
| 30 | Decreased peptic activity was present not only in the antral mucosa but also in the less affected mucosa of the gastric body . |