Example sentences of "[not/n't] only for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plays become a focus , not only for question about Renaissance drama , but about a variety of cultural debates . |
| 2 | Already , though , the examiners are looking not only for knowledge of syllabus content but also for those intellectual qualities that make a successful chartered accountant . |
| 3 | They are useful documents , not only for insights into such things as parish organisations , but also ( when used cautiously ) population movements , family prosperity and Christian and surname patterns . |
| 4 | Pupils with little or no sight need the opportunity to explore the classroom , not only for reasons of access and safety but also to find out where the key activities take place and where the objects needed for their work and play are kept . |
| 5 | At the first summit of the non-aligned nations in 1961 the Cuban President had declared that ‘ the peoples reject the installation in their territory of foreign military bases implying an imminent danger of war ’ not only for reasons of principle ‘ but by mere instinct of self-preservation ’ . |
| 6 | It is important to recognize , then , that a variety of different indexing approaches are inevitable , not only for reasons of history and indexer preference , but because different situations demand different approaches . |
| 7 | Her eyes filled with tears again , not only for pity at the death of dogs . |
| 8 | The band is used not only for worship in the citadel , but also for evangelism in public places . |
| 9 | Therefore , we 're left with a certain pot and we must manage that the best way possible in providing the best education , not only for children in village schools , but in towns and every of large or medium size throughout this county . |
| 10 | Canals were used not only for transport of goods but also for ferrying passengers and for the occasional pleasure trip . |
| 11 | c Applied to timber it is meant to keep fungi away by killing spores , but it remains active for many years and is a health hazard not only for people in their homes , but also for the workers who make it . |
| 12 | The preservation qualities of the Somerset Levels have demonstrated to us a wide range of prehistoric woodworking skills and the uses to which wood was put , not only for use in trackways ( Fig. 5 ) hurdles , and so on , but also for making artefacts . |
| 13 | He believed education should fit man for society , as well as equipping him with learning , hence he pressed not only for lessons in drawing , but also in French . |
| 14 | Acciòn Nacional initially provided a temporary home not only for realists like the Salamanca lawyer José Maria Gil Robles , who in his memoirs ( published thirty years later ) was to admit to always having been ‘ a monarchist at heart ’ , but also for monarchist die-hards . |