Example sentences of "not only [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tobermory was not only a trading centre but an administrative ‘ capital ’ . |
| 2 | I understood her logic : to anyone , or to be precise to any tourist , who cast an eye towards the subcontinent , Machu Picchu was not only a symbol for Peru but for the whole of Latin America . |
| 3 | To own land was to possess , not only a symbol of status , but also the most prized source of wealth and power . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After all , we were no ordinary family , but a clan : I was told by my mother always to hold my head up high , and remember that I was not only a MacLeod , but a double MacLeod — MacLeod being also her maiden name . |
| 6 | The article concludes that what is now required is not only a consolidation but also a rethinking of educational interventions if issues of racism , ethnicity and cultural difference are to be adequately addressed in the 1990s and beyond . |
| 7 | You can win not only a Megadrive 16-bit computer console ( exquisitely styled to produce faster and smoother games playing scenarios and requiring greater levels of skill and dexterity , it sez here ) but also a brand new Michael Jackson game to go with it . |
| 8 | Of course , this description is very schematic , covering not only a variety of situations but differences at different times . |
| 9 | UNDERDEVELOPMENT involves not only a lack of technical knowledge but also being linked to the wrong knowledge . |
| 10 | Its certainty was attained once the bill was separated from the charter party and became not only a receipt for the goods but also an independent ( captain or master of the vessel issued ) abstract document of title . |
| 11 | For example , Turnock ( 1968 ) in a study of northeast Scotland found that depopulation in the area was not only a function of a retreat from hill farming but also a process of concentration into fewer but larger settlements , and Johnston ( 1965 ) in a study of northern England found that village size was important in not only retaining the existing population but also attracting newcomers from nearby towns . |
| 12 | It contains not only a Rope Museum and Blacksmith 's Shop but a working watermill too . |
| 13 | His marriage , too , although it presumably owed much to Gloucester , also allied him with the Percies , since his new brother-in-law lord Scrope was not only a neighbour of the duke but also a Percy retainer . |
| 14 | His marriage , too , although it presumably owed much to Gloucester , also allied him with the Percies , since his new brother-in-law lord Scrope was not only a neighbour of the duke but also a Percy retainer . |
| 15 | The versatile Starter Kit contains not only a 50ft Soakerhose , but also 10ft of garden hose , and a set of hose couplings , plus a flow control regulator and a 16-page instruction manual . |
| 16 | The tone of the festivities was set by Göring 's public eulogy , stating : ‘ We … look back to an unbroken chain of glorious victories such as only one man could attain in a single year of his life , one who is not only a statesman and military commander , but at the same time also Leader and man of the people : our Führer … ’ |
| 17 | He is not only a prisoner but is conditioned to be his own jailer too . |
| 18 | But even in the 1860s , the notion that a " mere girl " might learn the trade very quickly and be doing as well as a man in a short time , was not only a threat to employment but a threat to the craftsman 's pride in his skill . |
| 19 | It is not only a conflict between old and new generations of activists , it symbolises a deeper malaise between the only mass party the working class has ever had and its working-class electors , who are also its clients . |
| 20 | Some of the most important political texts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , which present not only a doctrine but a theory of politics , have originated outside the academy ; among them , notably , that most influential of tracts , the Communist Manifesto . |
| 21 | It remained in place only a few minutes more , When the Commanding Officer ordered not only a change of the command team which had built it , but a change of design as well . |
| 22 | Our eyes and minds have felt the need for change , not only a change of view but also the psychological relief and stimulus of thinking of something new . |
| 23 | But this election is not only a choice between policies , important though both are . |
| 24 | To do this they will need not only a knowledge of the vocabulary of steps through which dancers communicate , but an ability to explain their design so that dancers can give it depth of feeling ( see page 78 ) . |
| 25 | Although it seems unlikely that lay people could get involved with the detailed engineering design of major projects , given proposals for a specific local project their general interest can sometimes expand to include not only a concern for the siting , appearance and general design of the system but also an interest in the more general policy issues : for example , is the proposed project the best investment option ; what are the alternatives ? |
| 26 | Six months or so of this produced not only a degree of understandable tedium -even the most terrifying things can become boring if lived with long enough — but what I would call an inverse effect . |
| 27 | The legislation stipulated that a winning presidential candidate would have to receive not only a majority of votes nationwide , but also a minimum of 25 per cent of votes in at least five of the country 's eight provinces . |
| 28 | Not only a household name , now it was a household face with household heart as well . |
| 29 | In fact , many women feel that tzniut , or modesty , is not only a protection for her which serves as a ‘ hands off ’ signal to men , but also allows a responsibility for her own actions . |
| 30 | This is , of course , not only a plea for common sense , but also an argument in favour of estimation rather than hypothesis testing — a vaccine efficacy estimate of 77% for these data has more meaning than a of 53.1 . |