Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [noun pl] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only do notes provide a record that can be referred to , but they also act as a check on how well you are listening . |
| 2 | Not only do horoscopes determine the suitability of a partner for an arranged marriage , even the date that the couple should be joined is left to the astrologer 's discretion . |
| 3 | Not only do documents name sites , but often settlement earthworks remain and areas of ridge and furrow , meadow , and so on demonstrate where it is unlikely that there has been settlement . |
| 4 | One lot of As holds that not only do girls succeed in primary school , they continue to succeed in secondary school . |
| 5 | According to Peter Webster , the director of EIRIS , not only do investors have different requirements when it comes to investment , but so do fund managers when choosing stocks for their portfolios . |
| 6 | Not only do writers develop the innovations of their predecessors but they may also make more or less explicit references to their works , sometimes in highly elaborate forms . |
| 7 | Not only do boards have a lifted nose , but also a subtle rise in the tail . |
| 8 | Not only do children live in separate houses , they often move many miles from their parents in order to follow work or careers , and the mutual support they could formerly give each other has been accordingly diminished . |
| 9 | Not only do adolescents start self-consciously considering every square inch of their outward appearance , but their personalities and habits begin to be printed there too . |
| 10 | Not only do insects rob man of his food , but they suck his blood , bury themselves in his skin and infect him with all kinds of serious diseases . |
| 11 | Not only do patients accept weight gain better when allowed to exercise , but also the programme allows the opportunity for guidance about healthy levels of activity after discharge , |
| 12 | Not only do dogs play games to exercise their hunting skills , they play to determine who is boss . |
| 13 | Not only do numbers diminish with distance , but it can be shown that there is a statistical over-selection of spouses who live close and corresponding under-selection of those who live far away . |
| 14 | Not only do Christians have the necessary basis for such a concept , but we know that we are commanded to live out a standard unselfishness , far surpassing a mere social grace . |
| 15 | Not only did Nonconformists suffer severely under the savage penal laws , but a whole range of other people were drawn into the process of enforcing them , which meant that they could be forced to decide whether their sympathies lay with Dissent or with the intolerant Anglican establishment . |
| 16 | In the US steel industry not only did employers control a rapidly changing technology but the small number of very large firms which existed possessed vast financial resources . |
| 17 | Not only did newspapers contain a disproportionately high number of items needing repair , but further investigation showed that those newspapers which were in need of attention tended to be in a much poorer condition than defective monographs or serials . |
| 18 | Not only did factors draw on it in some years for London , but later in the century the rise of Plymouth as a naval centre provided a counter attraction for corn from its eastern half which might otherwise have gone into the increasingly populous western mining districts . |
| 19 | Not only did women earn less than male officers but they were kept to shoplifting , domestic violence , child cruelty and sexual crime . |
| 20 | Not only did farms become larger and more specialized , but village craftsmen — millers , blacksmiths , carpenters , wheelwrights , bakers , and cobblers — were squeezed out as their trades were concentrated in the towns . |
| 21 | The point here is that not only did surrealists see art as being composed of signifying elements drawn from the real , but understood reality to be composed of signifying elements . |
| 22 | Not only did journalists flock to join it — so giving it , at a stroke , a solid and respectable ‘ roll-call ’ — but it was rewarded with the ‘ What the Papers Say ’ Newspaper of the Year award in 1986 . |
| 23 | Not only did prostitutes frequent the theatre , but the street transvestite was sometimes associated with prostitution and possibly sodomy : Henriques notes a regulation dating from 1480 forbidding prostitutes to dress as men in public , and remarks : ‘ This masquerading presumably would have meant an added inducement to sodomy ’ ( Prostitution and Society , ii . |
| 24 | Not only did children have to learn by association and reinforcement , their production had to be shaped to the correct response . |
| 25 | So why not just let things flow on . |
| 26 | The purpose of the intervention is not just to help parents sort out a specific behaviour problem . |
| 27 | I was told on more than one occasion , that I should not really let outsiders see this sort of thing , even though it was agreed that what I had written was an accurate analysis of events . |