Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] only [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bell , the Company 's Managing Director , explained why it was in the interests of the Company 's policyholders that levels of reversionary bonuses not only had regard to the investment outlook but also preserved the Company 's ability to invest freely so that its total performance would not be adversely affected . |
| 2 | The animals not only provided dairy products , meat , leather and wool for clothing ; bone was used to make such things as combs , weaving tools and netting needles . |
| 3 | These compounds not only prevent schistosomiasis , but also prevent abnormal cell-division . |
| 4 | The valves enclosing the tentacles not only give protection to these soft delicate structures , but concentrate the water into a steady stream so that it flows more effectively over them . |
| 5 | These features take on particular interest when combined with the findings of Squire ( 1964 ) whose study of readers not only found evidence of a considerable need on the part of adolescent readers for association and empathy with the characters in a work of fiction , but also a clear correlation between emotional involvement with a story and the formulation of literary judgment . |
| 6 | In the next year , one in which bad harvests had pushed up the price of wheat to 119s. 6d. a quarter , the overseers not only paid 1s. per week to Mary , but also found a further 2s. per week for Thomas himself from 26 May until 30 June on account of him having ‘ No work ’ . |
| 7 | Such attitudes not only displace others from paid employment but also lead to family breakdown . |
| 8 | It is the reasonable foreseeability of harm arising from one 's conduct which in many types of cases not only gives rise to the duty of care to avoid inflicting such harm , but also provides the test for determining whether a person injured by the careless conduct of another falls within the class of persons to whom a duty of care is owed . |
| 9 | Recycling aluminium cans not only reduces litter , but saves energy as well . |
| 10 | The FMI not only provides ministers ( through management information systems ) with increased knowledge about departmental activities , but also reinforces what Gray and Jenkins ( 1985 , ch. 6 ) describe as the traditional legal rational code of accountability with a primarily financial code stressing effective and efficient accountability . |
| 11 | I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend for that reply which shows that the programme for road improvements not only increases traffic flows and reduces congestion but makes a direct and positive contribution to the reduction of road casualties . |
| 12 | Legal forms not only constitute gender relations but represent ways of seeing roles and relations . |
| 13 | Interest groups not only prompted state intervention , but that intervention in disturbing the established equilibrium did much to draw-out still more activity as interests fought to defend their patch in the face of other interests jockeying for advantage . |
| 14 | Caterpillars of geometrid moths not only resemble twigs in the colour and texture of their skin , but they grasp a thin branch with their hind claspers and hold themselves up at an angle so that they look like twigs . |
| 15 | These sermons not only strengthened James I in his belief in the Divine Right of Kings but made an even deeper impression on the sombre young Prince Charles , who sat beside him . |
| 16 | This enabled companies not only to cut costs but also by-pass awkward labour-protection laws introduced during the time of the left-wing military dictatorship . |
| 17 | By having an attack of the infectious disease the body is stimulated to produce appropriate antibodies not only to assist recovery but also to provide a sufficient quantity to remain in the blood for a longer period , sometimes throughout life , for example after an attack of rubella |
| 18 | So it seems that Laboulbeniales not only show host specificity and position-on-host specificity , but may also display sex-of-host specificity . |
| 19 | Molloy and Carroll address this issue on the basis of their transbinary data and conclude that NSE students in the universities not only out-performed SE students in these institutions , but also out-performed NSE students in the polytechnics and colleges . |
| 20 | Only when some convincing reason can be adduced for believing that both employers and workers not only misread market signals , but also misread them in the opposite direction from each other , will it be plausible to infer that both the supply of and demand for labour will rise with the general rise in prices and money wages . |
| 21 | Evening and weekend lettings of the school hall and classrooms not only brings revenue but brings in visitors that would not normally visit the premises . |
| 22 | Cannabis plants not only contain THC ( tetrahydrocannabinol ) but also two other related compounds , tetrahydrocannabivarin and cannabidiol . |
| 23 | Some organisations not only pay disturbance allowances but provide removal grants as well . |
| 24 | Several of the key issues relating to the form of auditors ' reports on financial statements not only have implications for the APB but should also have major implications for the Accounting Standards Board 's work programme . |
| 25 | As Emmerson explained at the Seminar , banks typically only save information where legal or business requirements make the information necessary or useful . |
| 26 | Cables not only add pattern , they give a texture all their own . |
| 27 | In one day , investors not only wiped $13.4 billion off Philip Morris 's stockmarket value but also dumped shares in scores of other consumer-goods firms . |
| 28 | For example , contacting users ' families not only causes unpleasantness for the individual concerned but also damages the centres ' carefully nurtured congenial atmosphere . |
| 29 | Today 's dancers not only dance fur an audience . |
| 30 | Such variations not only confuse users about the forms of headings , but also make it difficult for a cataloguer inserting a new heading for local use to discern the principles which should be heeded to retain consistency of approach . |