Example sentences of "[not/n't] only [verb] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrival of computer graphics will not only facilitate a wider access to geometry but will be , in an important sense , integral to doing geometry . |
| 2 | The end results will not only create a higher standard of competence within the company directly related to each person 's individual role but also an enhancement and enrichment of that person 's own development and personal qualification . |
| 3 | He not only added a greater dimension through his excellent , exciting tennis , but also through his personality . |
| 4 | As the government and many local authorities are striving to make the operation of the system quick , simple for the lay user and an encouragement to development when it is employment-related , so the public is not only taking a greater interest in its immediate environment , historic buildings and countryside and conservation generally , but is increasingly using the planning system to try to achieve its aims . |
| 5 | The present studies show that the migrating motor complex not only has a lower oesophageal sphincter component , but also an oesophageal body component . |
| 6 | In the iron and steel industry for example subcontractors not only employ a greater proportion of older workers but the gap between their working hours and those in parent companies lengthened from 2 per cent to 14 per cent between 1960 and 1978 . |
| 7 | Anyone who has served with him at the Department — and I am talking not just about his present ministerial team — knows that he not only brings a greater degree of expertise to his job than anyone I can remember but does it with great inventiveness in terms of improving benefits and with an exceptional degree of compassion and , above all , integrity . |
| 8 | Further , the retardation of maturity not only preserved a better brain/ body-weight ratio but also extended the period of educability and cognitive development which characterizes primate childhoods . |
| 9 | Not only do a greater proportion of phone boxes work , but there are more boxes today than there were before we introduced the privatised control system . |
| 10 | This autobiographical slant not only adds a further dimension to an understanding of the novel as a " balance sheet " . |