Example sentences of "not only [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claim of a holy Gad that those who have fellowship with him should not only be acquitted and accounted righteous , but actually and progressively be made righteous in an ethical sense is strongly brought out in the Pauline letters . |
| 2 | Words can not only be recognised without attending to them , but they can also , with practice , be read aloud and whole sentences , and even passages , can be read with intonation . |
| 3 | SVQs will therefore not only be recognised within that industry but will also be regarded as a counterpart of the NVQs accredited by NCVQ in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | The law can not only be condemned for being ‘ unnecessary ’ but also because those who formulate and publicly defend it are ‘ hypocrites ’ . |
| 5 | Apparent oppositions , they felt , should not only be tolerated but gloried in : ultimately they would prove to be resolvable in a wider harmony . |
| 6 | As in the case of parent-child relationships we find here that one-way flows of support can not only be tolerated , but also in a sense are expected , provided the direction of the support is from grandparent to grandchild . |
| 7 | The principal problem in reconstructing clothing from this evidence is that the range of dress-fastenings need not only be dictated by dress ; social identity and/or display may enter here . |
| 8 | Clearly , if the court orders the conveyance , or if the conveyance is by agreement to satisfy the claim of the wife , it will be inappropriate for the husband to convey " as settlor " since the conveyance is not a voluntary disposition or settlement ; for this to be an effective covenant the conveying party must not only be expressed to convey as " settlor " , he must actually be a settlor ( see Fay v Miller Wilkins & Co [ 1941 ] Ch 360 , although Emmet on Title ( 19th edn , Longman , para 14.003 ) expresses doubts concerning this decision ) . |
| 9 | If he wanted to refer a patient to a nursing home and the social work team recommended district nursing in the patient 's own home , he would not only be overruled but also have to foot the bill for the nurse . |
| 10 | When two or more persons took as tenants in common , the share of each was treated as a separate item of property which could not only be transferred by him in his lifetime , but which would pass on his death to his representatives . |
| 11 | Since the condition often occurs in the secondary-school years , the young person may not only be faced with the trauma of the diagnosis and the confusion of being still able to see clearly in some situations and not at all in others , but there may also have to be a decision to transfer the medium of communication from print to braille , all this taking place in the years leading up to important examinations . |
| 12 | will not only be missed by his friends and colleagues in the Ipswich office but by all the mills where his work has been much appreciated . |
| 13 | In doing so they will not only be dealing with grief and loss , but also rethinking their own daily living arrangements . |
| 14 | The trouble is that the Scottish Education Department disagrees with both of us and insists that religious observance must not only be reinstated but also reinforced . |
| 15 | However , this enthusiasm to convey solutions to pupils often ends up by precluding the pupils ' own ideas and can not only be inhibiting but also take away the pupils ' enjoyment of getting there themselves . |
| 16 | Such previously unimaginable impertinences must not only be done by the book : they must be seen to be too . |
| 17 | In Sussex Justices the court said that " it is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done . " |
| 18 | ( 65 ) Justice must not only be done — ( … ) — but must manifestly be seen to be done . |
| 19 | It was always our contention that justice should not only be done but that justice should be seen to be done by the due process of the public inquiry . |
| 20 | A Scottish Office spokesman said : ‘ Justice must not only be seen to be done — but heard to be done . ’ |
| 21 | Put that the other way round : a China that flunked this test would not only be seen to be throwing in its lot with Asia 's rogue regimes . |
| 22 | Structured systems analysis and design need not only be seen as an alternative to the conventional approach . |
| 23 | News of a proposed relocation should not only be communicated to employees but should also be given to suppliers and customers . |
| 24 | Threshed grain and other concentrate feeds must not only be kept dry , but also be protected from birds , mice , and rats . |
| 25 | Yet , when any mistake or misjudgement could not only be pounced upon by the press and magnified as an indication of bureaucratic muddle or high-handedness , but also lead in extreme cases to job loss or imprisonment , the instinct for self-preservation by secrecy and tight central control was understandably strengthened . |
| 26 | The food must not only be disguised , but also given in sufficient quantity , a task that has taxed the ingenuity of many a researcher ( see p91 and p92 ) . |
| 27 | But if I were Ben Hogan , and a Bob Hamilton or Willie Goggin chipped in to beat me in The Masters , a Walter Burkemo holed a sand shot to swipe the PGA , a raw rookie — pick one — holed a 7-iron to beat me somewhere in Florida and then the like of a Bud Holscher or a Shelley Mayfield holed yet another sand shot to steal yet another victory , then I 'd not only be scouring the Fort Worth Yellow Pages looking for the nearest shrink , I might even think of tossing myself under a freight train in the nearest marshalling yard . |
| 28 | Lexicological units must not only be delimited paradigmatically , that is , within a constant syntactic frame : we want also to be able to say of two occurrences of a lexical form in different syntactic environments whether they are occurrences of the same lexical unit , or two different units . |
| 29 | the purpose will not only be to form an impression of methods and levels of language teaching but also to observe how teachers and pupils talk to each other in the UK . |
| 30 | To do so would not only be to abandon deep-seated conceptions of justice and desert , but to abandon the conception of ‘ guilt ’ itself . |