Example sentences of "not [adv] do [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have discovered that not only do they pass their shape and colour , but behavioural patterns as well . |
| 2 | Not only do they alter the physiognomy of the landscape but also the geomorphic , pedologic and hydrological processes . |
| 3 | Not only do they represent the first substantial draft of much of the material that was to be more fully worked out there . |
| 4 | Many of the mutations in colorectal cancer are of a dominant-negative type — that is , not only do they result in loss of tumour suppressor activity , they also confer the ability to transform NIH/3T3 cells . |
| 5 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 6 | Not only do they move into sheds in cold weather and eat your fruits , vegetables and bulbs in store , but they eat seedlings , especially hellebores , in the frame . |
| 7 | Not only do they send a bigger share of their exports to America , but they are also facing fierce competition from American firms in third markets . |
| 8 | Not only do they do you a world of good if you drink them but they also have cosmetic uses . |
| 9 | Not only do they defecate communally in special latrine areas , but they ‘ paste ’ . |
| 10 | Not only do they bring a new breadth of variety , a chance to inject powerful statements of character , and a different level and pace of creativity ; they are great fun as well . |
| 11 | Not only do they bring symmetry by removing the order of assignments , but by allowing such assignments as unc they will allow us to eliminate all assignments to bound variables . |
| 12 | But here the descriptions play an important role , and serious students would do well to read them carefully ; for not only do they tell more than any photograph ever can , including technical details of construction , but , when studied with the photographs , or in front of the objects themselves , they are invaluable in helping to focus on the many significant details which might otherwise go unnoticed . |
| 13 | Not only do they record the history of their localities , they are themselves the product of history , played on a far wider stage . |
| 14 | Not only do they consume more natural resources , they also produce more pollution . |
| 15 | Not only do they fail to express what it is like to be a sea-urchin , fly , or dog , but they also fail to articulate the specific psychological functions involved . |
| 16 | Essentially , occupational pension schemes are designed — by men with male ‘ family wage-earners ’ and male middle-class career patterns in mind , so not only do they exclude the majority of part-time workers , but they tend to assume that earnings peak in the final years of working life , which is much less often the case for women than for men . |
| 17 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |
| 18 | Not only do they reflect the significance of each part of the ancient ritual , but also the solemn chant of the singers during the ceremonies and later the raucous shouts of the guests at the feast . |
| 19 | Not on , not only do they wee on the carpet but they also have a tendency to try and avoid , cover it up |
| 20 | Not only do they tackle key issues which would otherwise be neglected under every-day pressures , but they also break down barriers and strengthen team spirit and understanding . |
| 21 | The prime purpose is to enable the recipients of the cards to know the other 's status so that not only do they bow correctly , but also use the proper form of language . |
| 22 | Not only do they agonize over which of their colleagues deserve which piece of ribbon , they are unafraid to set themselves in judgement upon those whose candidacy for an honour is based upon genuine distinction , perhaps in the arts or by voluntary work . |
| 23 | Not only do they operate under a variety of influences which limit their room for manoeuvre , but public examinations , based on subjects , are a major constraint , recently reinforced by the subject-based GCSE examinations . |
| 24 | Not only do they look down , they also watch the movements of other vultures . |
| 25 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 26 | Not only do they include unkind and unflattering things about other people in the theatrical profession , they bear witness to their writer 's sexual habits and name names . |
| 27 | Not only do they provide for lefties , they also keep the price the same as the right-handed models . |
| 28 | You do n't leave deadwood on your spreadsheets , cells that are formatted or unprotected , cos not only do they use memory where you 've got the cells but between that and something else . |
| 29 | Brightly coloured and bottled in pretty jars , not only do they taste good but they look good too ! |
| 30 | Not only do they taste different , but they are very different in their performance when it comes to washing . |