Example sentences of "[be] not only [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These precedents for perfection are not only impossible to achieve , they also allow no place for rebellion . |
| 2 | This means that a low maintenance composition needs to use materials and planting that are not only easy to care for but look good throughout the year . |
| 3 | Yet , at the same time , practical programmes that ignore justice in retributive terms are not only likely to prove unacceptable , but are also likely to be self-defeating : the sense of injustice that they generate militates against the effectiveness of their programmes . |
| 4 | Host : Domestic dog and wild carnivores Site : Lung parenchyma Species : Filaroides milksi F. hirthi Distribution : North America , Europe and Japan The worms are very small , slender , hair-like and greyish , and are not only difficult to see with the naked eye in the lung parenchyma , but are unlikely to be recovered intact from the tissue . |
| 5 | Strong lipstick shades are not only difficult to apply , but they can look overpowering , especially on sun-kissed skin . |
| 6 | Pen-based computers are not only easier to use — they can also be more portable than standard key-board-based machines . |
| 7 | Too few libraries train according to a pre-arranged plan and many are not only unable to justify the methods used for the processes taught but may actually be unaware of what these methods and processes are . |
| 8 | Pharmacists are not only willing to talk to you about medicines but about many other aspects of health as well — and in private if you prefer other customers not to hear . |
| 9 | The hardships that Ceauşescu imposed were not only necessary to provide the funds and material for everything from the House of the People ( to which they would be denied access ) to canals without traffic and power-stations without fuel , but also formed part of the folk-wisdom of tyrants going back much further in history than Ceauşescu 's own model , Stalin . |
| 10 | In creating artificial forms they were not only careful to ensure that their siting was appropriate but also that all the elements in the design , such as shape , proportion and size , respected Nature rather than acted against it . |
| 11 | The Greensight approach is not only cheap to implement and maintain , but also flexible , so that sites can be treated individually . |
| 12 | It is not only impossible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations which are nothing but abstract relations , but it is only possible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations that refer directly to observable phenomena in material reality . |
| 13 | The delicate textural changes commonly encountered in studies of dissolution fabrics emphasize the importance of effective impregnation of the sediment prior to thin section making ; this is not only essential to identify plucked grains , or grains partially plucked from their matrix as opposed to secondary porosity , but is also necessary for reflected light petrography of grain and cement margins when investigating corrosion fabrics . |
| 14 | In other words , it is not only cheaper to buy the parent company 's shares , buying them gets you a share of the non-telecom activities for less than nothing . |
| 15 | We want to safeguard the special beauty of our countryside and make sure that it is not only pleasant to walk in but that it is safe too . |
| 16 | This is one advantage of having an external control unit — the temperature rise is not only easy to do , but can be made slow or swift according to species . |
| 17 | To take a specific example , from the same book SIMULATIONS , It is not only possible to analyse Disneyland as a digest of the American way of life but such an ideological analysis conceals a further order of simulations : " Disneyland is there to conceal the fact that it is the " real " country , all of " real " America , which IS Disneyland … |
| 18 | There are sites where it is not only possible to visit and see the reconstructions , but also to take part in activities simulating the way people lived on that site in the past , or even to live there for several days to get some sort of impression of the way of life . |
| 19 | As an alternative assembly procedure , it is not only possible to attach one model to another but also to declare that this model is inserted into the model space of the other . |
| 20 | You will tell me that the milkman has refused to continue deliveries , but this only adds weight to my earlier submission that the boat is not only unfit to live in but actually unsafe . " |
| 21 | Second , the whole analysis is based on the mistaken assumption that the poet and the reader 's text worlds are identical , an assumption which is not only difficult to prove but also in contrast with the core ideas of the collection . |
| 22 | It is not only easier to remember everything this way but it can actually be more fun too . |
| 23 | This is not only easier to knit but also gives you an even weight of fabric which is much more successful . |
| 24 | The low RF interference and low component count claims are usually made because the Cuk topology is not only able to accommodate the input and output filter chokes on the same magnetic core as the transformer , but it can also reduce the input and output ripple currents to very low levels . |
| 25 | This unholy alliance is not only supposed to have destroyed the traditional amenities of working-class community life , but to have robbed these boys of their childhood patrimony as well ! |
| 26 | The introduction of conscription was not only crucial to obtain the manpower resources necessary but also to plan a total war economy . |
| 27 | Pope Benedict XII was not only keen to reconcile Edward and Philip so that their planned crusade could go ahead , but he was also anxious to keep Lewis of Bavaria isolated from either French or English help . |
| 28 | Now he was not only unable to remember the names of politicians , sportsmen and television personalities , he also found his memory was unable to supply the personal details of people he had known since he was a child . |
| 29 | Hamer , by contrast , was not only unable to flourish inside Ealing , where his projects were now considered too risqué , but unable to thrive outside . |
| 30 | I was not only surprised to find they had plenty of timber for fence posts , but also that it cost far less than new wood . |