Example sentences of "not only [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that they can see how counterproductive it is not only does n't seem to stop them , it makes matters worse . |
| 2 | Not only do both represent a constant danger to the community , but their lives have ceased to have any real meaning . |
| 3 | This conclusion is based on the fact that potent prostaglandin synthesis inhibitors such as indomethacin not only do not improve ulcerative colitis , but also can worsen the disease activity , implying that prostaglandins have some protective or repair ability , or both . |
| 4 | To Arnold the term philistine implied the idea of something stiff-necked and perverse in its resistance to light — ‘ and therein it specially suits our middle class , who not only do not pursue sweetness and light , but who even prefer to them that sort of machinery of business , chapels , tea-meetings and addresses from Mr Murphy , which makes up the dismal and illiberal life on which I have so often touched ’ . |
| 5 | As for the shirts , I not only do nt think there s anything wrong with wearing football shirts … in many cases its a bloody great help . |
| 6 | Franco not only did not do so but , on the following day , requested Sperrle to send any spare aircraft he might have to the Madrid front . |
| 7 | This had been doubly hurtful , for it meant that she not only did not want to work for and look after him but preferred his lifestyle to her own , and by implication ( for she was a lazy woman ) that meant that she considered what he did not to be work at all , merely a pleasurable means of making a great deal of money . |
| 8 | In time , however , these ideas developed into a much more general critique , in which objects not only did not signify use value but were found not to signify anything outside of themselves . |
| 9 | The daughter of that cruel Damophilus " had done all she could to comfort the slaves who were beaten by her parents " : so the slaves not only did not touch her but escorted her " to the home of certain kinsmen in Catana " ( 34.39 ) . |
| 10 | But Rolle not only did not have a spiritual director , he had absolutely no intention of getting one . |
| 11 | It will be seen , however , that although the Rules required that if the notice related to and was prejudicial to a person other than a member , a copy of the notice must be served upon him , such a person not only did not have any prior opportunity of making representations why the notice should not be issued , but was not given , under the Rules , the right to apply to set it aside , nor any right to appeal against the notice . |