Example sentences of "not only [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such payment , furthermore , is thought not only to detract from any generosity that might otherwise characterize her action , but altogether to cast doubt on her motives and her reliability . |
| 2 | Minton 's zestful response not only captures in vivid terms the quality of these artists ' work , but it also reveals his own anxiety about what contemporary art should do and be . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're not only fightin' fer better wages . |
| 4 | In the first place the division of trade between intra- and extra-trade is not only affected by economic integration . |
| 5 | This is not only expressed through direct welfare , housing and educational provision to families which helps to ensure an adequate supply of suitable labour , but also in the reproduction of wider ideologies of popular consent which make it difficult for the rule to see the possibility of any other form of economic and political organization . |
| 6 | When the art bubble burst , prices not only fell in this area , they stopped . |
| 7 | Moving to a new area may not only result in lower rent and rates but also lead to reduced transport and travelling costs and perhaps lower labour costs . |
| 8 | An inability to mature adequately out of the phallic , Oedipal phase will usually not only result in some degree of genital inhibition later in life and a fixation on infantile sexual gratifications such as masturbation , voyeurism , sado-masochism , etc. , but also reduce the force of the cultural prohibitions which the original phallic-Oedipal trauma of our forefathers precipitated , namely those against parricide and incest . |
| 9 | Also , being of royal descent from the House of Aragon , her marriage not only demonstrated to all that Rodrigo stood in high favour with the King , but also helped heal the breach between Castile and Leon . |
| 10 | In other words , when he was talking about psychology , and these are quotes from Darwin 's Expression of the Emotions , Darwin not only refers to acquired characteristics , which he believes in , but he even refers to evolution by will . |
| 11 | How successful such efforts will prove to be will not only depend on commercial sales potential but also on the costs which will be incurred in laboratory and field testing procedures , similar to those discussed in relation to crop protection chemicals in section 6.4 , which are necessary for registration . |
| 12 | For the first time a non-aligned state provided not only support for Soviet warships on a commercial basis but did so without in the process tarnishing its non-aligned credentials . |
| 13 | However , even if the L.G.U. was left wondering if it should n't have kept the public better informed , it must have been greatly heartened by the number of spectators who not only came to this out-of-the-way championship but made it abundantly clear that they were greatly taken with the high standard of play . |
| 14 | This means not only looking for good practice in the present but also looking for indicators for the future . |
| 15 | I 've mentioned that between the house where we lived , Number Forty Eight Culver Street and Number Forty Six were two large double doors , giving access to ‘ The Cellar ’ which not only ran under both houses but also under Numbers Fifty and Fifty Two . |
| 16 | The workers not only suffered from moderate wages but also from a sense of resentment , humiliation and social isolation at taking factory work . |
| 17 | For example , the country has not only suffered from unstable coffee prices , but also from a decline in production . |
| 18 | Also to the drivers , who not only drove with such care that the passengers were n't inconvenienced in any way , but also doubled as bike handlers to get the bikes on and off the trailer , inevitably a dirty job . |
| 19 | What was more , he considered it his duty , not only to pray in public himself , but to induce his friends to join him , often at inconvenient times and in conspicuous places . |
| 20 | Arbitration not only led to centralised wage-fixing and a high degree of centralised decision-making by both employers and unions , as well as inhibiting the development of a strong shop steward movement , it also fostered a fragmented union movement ( Lansbury , 1978a ) . |
| 21 | An increased flow of water not only led to greater purity of the commodity , but also permitted a rebuilding of the entire sewage system . |
| 22 | It was emphasised that this event was not only intended for those interested in ecumenical groups . |
| 23 | If ignored , stress not only contributes to physical disorders such as heart disease , high blood pressure , ulcers and asthma , it can also lead to a variety of mental illnesses of which insomnia , depression and irritability are just early symptoms . |
| 24 | The appointment of the famous doctor and educational theorist Nikolai Pirogov to the headship of the Odessa educational district in 1856 demonstrated that under Alexander II enlightened academics could not only serve in educational institutions , but also run them . |
| 25 | Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period . |
| 26 | They knew that the village police sergeant and constable were there not only to deal with ordinary crime but to report on any political activity in their district . |
| 27 | NARE 's silver jubilee conference provided a platform not only to reflect on past achievements but , perhaps more importantly , to set new goals for future developments . |
| 28 | The Woodward team not only distinguished between small and large batches , as described in paragraph 5 above , but also between large batches produced by single machines or batteries of machines and large batches produced on assembly lines . |
| 29 | They can not only compensate for declining liquor sales , but can even arrest and reverse that trend . |
| 30 | A system which has the intelligence to acknowledge that people are more than just a bag of bones dressed up in a birthday suit and that ill-health is not only caused by biological factors , but social , political , economic and environmental ones as well . |