Example sentences of "[not/n't] only [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the directorship of Sir Roy Strong , for example , the V&A not only mounted the well-attended exhibition of luxury artefacts by Fabergé , it also offered house space to Sir Terence Conran 's Boilerhouse project , a museum within a museum for the exhibition of contemporary consumer and industrial product design . |
| 2 | The experiments just mentioned not only introduce a much-needed control procedure but they also extend the generality of the effect . |
| 3 | Thus , CR-1409 not only abrogates the tropic effect of CCK on pancreatic growth but also inhibits functional stimulation of the exocrine cell . |
| 4 | An aesthetically satisfactory answer to the need to insert additional windows to light the new lower-level accommodation was found by not only siting the new openings in the same vertical alignment as the original triparite lights , but also by aiming to reproduce the general appearance of the existing windows . |
| 5 | They ran from St. Mark 's Church to Wilton , were open tops and the poor drivers not only had no real cabs but also had to share their outside bench seats with passengers at busy times . |
| 6 | In Leeds , Newton Park Union Church not only had a seventy-foot tower but a clock which Leeds Corporation agreed to illuminate at night . |
| 7 | Not only had a 30-minute journey taken one hour , but according to him , we 'd been brought back to where we started ! |
| 8 | Not only had a large section of the population been enfranchised , it was a notably different electorate from that which had existed previously . |
| 9 | Not only had the various guerrilla movements cut all land means of communication ; the staff of the paper , including the reporters , had left to join one side or another in the hills . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr McLeish said the figures showed that not only had the constant bleeding-away of Scottish jobs continued unabated , it was accelerating at an even more alarming rate . |
| 12 | We were told that not only had the Argentinian fleet continued on their route to the Falklands but there was now every reason to believe that Argentinian troops had landed . |
| 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 | ‘ That 's friendly ! ’ he shouted over the engine noise , and he pointed through the windscreen at the concrete airstrip which not only had the yellow cross painted huge at its western end , but also had two trucks parked in its centre line , thus making it impossible for any plane to land . |
| 15 | Real prosperity can only be achieved if every South African is free , not only to cast an equal vote , but to participate in wealth creation . |
| 16 | ( Success is defined by the extent to which the negotiator not only achieved the immediate objective ( see page 119 ) , but also by the extent to which the agreement stuck when implemented . ) |
| 17 | He said : ‘ It is vital that this inquiry should not only tell the full story of the computer system debacle but also thoroughly examine the long-standing difficulties of London 's ambulance services . ’ |
| 18 | This could not only distort the free interplay of market forces but also jeopardise bank assets . |
| 19 | they had to be thus dispersed , not only to guard every possible French invasion route , but also so that the mass of men and horses did not strip any one locality of food and gazing . |
| 20 | Such discussions not only take an inordinate amount of time ( a subtle form of disobedience ) , but they are subversive because they are so rewarding to the child . |
| 21 | The Contagious Diseases Acts not only involved a subtle shift in the balance of forces within moral environmentalism , they also marked a new and more particular specification of sexuality within sanitary discourse . |
| 22 | A nation 's labour force is by far the most important part of its daily accruing resources , and an inability continued over several years to direct some 10 per cent of it or more to any useful purpose not only involved a disastrous impoverishment of the nation , but is in itself a demonstration that the machinery for directing the available labour into appropriate fields of enterprise has broken down … we put , therefore , in the forefront of our proposals a vigorous policy of national reconstruction embracing within its scope , inter alia , the rehabilitation of agriculture , still the largest of our national industries ; an extensive programme of highway development ; afforestation , reclamation , drainage , electrification , slum clearance and town development , and the development of canals , docks , and harbours . |
| 23 | Ezra ha-kohen not only played the leading role in reordering the nation 's religious establishment ( re-establishment ) , but was almost certainly responsible for a great deal of the safeguarding and consolidation by which the scriptures have come down to us today . |
| 24 | It is expected that this combination will not only ensure the continuing existence of the profession but also identify a high potential for information managers and librarians and a rapid growth in the requirements for their services . |
| 25 | These double cables not only form an attractive central pattern on a plain sweater , but on a ‘ V ’ neck sweater the pattern can be divided and each section of 6 stitch cable may be worked up the side of the ‘ V ’ neck shaping . |
| 26 | To understand the specific nature of the abnormality experienced by disabled people we have not only to document a general failure to provide for needs . |
| 27 | When Mary Queen of Scots embarked on her headline-hitting affair with James Hepburn , earl of Bothwell , she not only created an immense drama for herself , but raised echoes of earlier headlines ; for two previous queens , Mary of Gueldres and her own mother Mary of Guise were , if rumour could be believed , on the receiving end of the Hepburn family 's habit of being ‘ kind to queens ’ . |
| 28 | They not only pursue a certain quarry , the mysteries and riddles of Sir Thomas , I think they enjoy the killing . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | On the other hand , if the option is not exercised , the purchaser not only loses the initial value paid for the options themselves but also the commission paid on the shares he or she did not buy . |