Example sentences of "not only a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tobermory was not only a trading centre but an administrative ‘ capital ’ . |
| 2 | I learned that the Manitoba Racing Commission had moreover by midafternoon given each of them not only a champagne reception and a splendid lunch but also , as a memento , a framed group photograph of all the owners on the trip . |
| 3 | It contains not only a Rope Museum and Blacksmith 's Shop but a working watermill too . |
| 4 | Not only a household name , now it was a household face with household heart as well . |
| 5 | Telephone Frank turns out to be not only a money expert , or an expert on not having any . |
| 6 | In a society constructing socialism an architect is not only a building engineer and a street engineer , but also an engineer of human souls . ’ |
| 7 | The unions want not only a pay rise but a proper pay mechanism for the future , and that 's where the talks could still fail . |
| 8 | It is not only a colour variety but also a more milky strain of the breed and there have been dairy herds of the beloved ‘ Belties ’ , though they would be better described as dual-purpose cattle . |
| 9 | In the first place , there was not only a sex difference but a gap of glaring dimensions politically , socially and even of age , between those who promoted the introduction of women to printing and those who opposed it . |
| 10 | For Mrs walker , that periosd was not only a worryiong time but a costly one . |
| 11 | At Twickenham , he is going to have to play a full part in a Scottish back-row who — which has not been the case for some years — will be having to cope with , in Dewi Morris and Stuart Barnes , not only a breaking scrum-half , but a running stand-off who attacks the gain-line . |
| 12 | The definitionalist might seek to save his position by arguing for a general principle of law to the effect that to intend an act is to intend it under a full description and that therefore in all crimes where the actus reus contains not only a conduct element but also circumstances and consequences , mens rea is to be taken as being ‘ coextensive with the actus reus . ’ |
| 13 | The taxpayer received not only a capital sum when the companies were sold but now also receives a substantial annual dividend . |
| 14 | The palace contained one of Bohemia 's finest picture collections and here was not only a picture gallery , but also a collection of graphics , a most important library , and a collection of sculpture put together by Count Jan Hertvík Nostic in the 17C . |
| 15 | One could build not only a railway terminal there , but the fifth London airport and no one would notice . |
| 16 | Not only a trade union , it also offered protection to those released from bonded labour , to the slumdwellers of Raipur , child labourers , farmers , women deserted or abused for the sake of dowry . |
| 17 | Mr Justice Douglas Brown said that the defendants were negligent ( 1 ) in failing to appreciate that they were dealing with a husband of substantial means who might well be able to afford to pay , not only a lump sum , but also substantial periodical payments ; ( 2 ) in failing to obtain full disclosure of the husband 's financial affairs ; ( 3 ) in failing to realise that because of family trusts and wills the husband had an expectation of further assets ; ( 4 ) in advising the wife to obtain a mortgage when she had no taxable income ; ( 5 ) in recommending a settlement which removed the wife 's undoubted right to maintenance ; and ( 6 ) in failing to use ouster proceedings to remove the husband from the matrimonial home . |
| 18 | The Conwy Castle Information Centre includes not only a tourist information centre but a shop selling a wide range of quality gifts and publications together with an exhibition on Edward I and his castles in Wales . |
| 19 | Thus , TFIIF is not only an initiation factor but an elongation factor . |
| 20 | In Saudi Arabia foreigners need not only an entry visa but an exit visa as well . |