Example sentences of "only [prep] [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | This is true not only for ageing but also for the onset of disabilities ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
2 | Commentators have described it as a ‘ Stalinist trial ’ , not only of Pavlović but also of others who hold similar views . |
3 | Lewis had got to know him because he was a frequent visitor to Oxford , anxious to get a job in the Oxford English Faculty , and a friend not only of Tolkien but also of Nevill Coghill . |
4 | For much of 1981 we were running not only behind Labour but also behind the alliance formed by the Liberals and the newly created Social Democratic Party of David Owen , Bill Rodgers , Shirley Williams and Roy Jenkins . |
5 | This is because of the great importance of infant mortality , the weightiest component of life expectancy and general mortality in developing countries , and also because a large body of observations concerning the effects are available not only from developed but also from developing countries and which are much more reliable than data on fetal mortality . |
6 | In the Newport hundreds , where the level of lay assessments was low and left substantially unchanged by the subsidy , the proportion of wealth owned by the Church was much higher than in the more advanced Chilterns , not only in 1522 but also after the initial assessments had been scaled down for the subsidy . |
7 | For Dewey democracy was to be understood not only in political but also in social and economic terms ; as a way of life and as a moral ideal and not simply as a form of government . |
8 | Yes , well the economic effect on our own country , well when I say under , er Europe , er , with this proposal that er , we have to open up our markets er for the benefit of the Soviet , er because , that is going to cost er , what they 're , what they 're asking for , not only in Soviet but also across Eastern Europe is that the agricultural market , the steel , and the textile market , all the most sensitive areas , should be opened up to them , and that 's going to shed a , a great increase in unemployment er within the , within the common market . |
9 | Churchill himself was interested not only in this but also in the wider implications of nuclear developments in the 1950s . |
10 | Indeed , children often acquire less class orientation from parents not only in taught but also in practical terms . |
11 | However , it is not only in these but also in most longer courses that there is scope for an imaginative alliance between the institutions , authorities and students . |
12 | Radio in Zambia broadcast not only in English but also in seven Zambian languages ; therefore , unlike television and most newspapers , it was able to communicate with a large proportion of the people in their own language or at least in one they could understand . |
13 | What is less obvious is that drama can have a central role in developing children 's reading and writing skills , not only in English but also in most other curriculum areas . |
14 | Developments in the republics in October , in the accelerated process of the dissolution of central Soviet power , included assertions of increasing autonomy not only over economic but also over military arrangements [ see under individual headings below , but also p. 38553 for Gorbachev 's statement when proposing arms reductions that central control over Soviet nuclear weapons would remain ] . |
15 | The lack of sex segregation and the late hours moreover , had bad effect not only on unmarried but also on married women . |
16 | A range of studies have demonstrated the vitality of the parent-child tie , sustained not only by visiting but also by a flow of assistance of various kinds in both directions . |