Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you give items like this , you not only help alleviate poverty and hunger overseas , but you help the less wealthy people in your area who can buy cheap clothes or toys for their children . |
| 2 | Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist . |
| 3 | The effects were felt beyond Inverkeithing , for the manager of the Cunningham interest in the eastern burghs of the district , Captain James Cunningham , was clear that it was essential to have John Main and Colin Sharp back in their places before the election and Haldane 's friends removed , as ‘ it not only does harm in that one town , but in all the rest ; Haldane 's interest is cryed up , & the Haldanes can do every thing is the general talk … ’ |
| 4 | Where competing firms are small they may wish not only to help regulate competition in the product market by joining together , but also to protect themselves against a marked inequality in bargaining power , since they are too small to be able to deal effectively with the trade unions unaided . |
| 5 | The answer is that American troops are in Germany , and elsewhere on the continent , not only to help defend Western Europe against a conventional Soviet attack , but also to keep the edge of the American nuclear umbrella pulled over Europe . |
| 6 | What is crucial for the Government is not only to help provide jobs but to be seen to want to be doing that . |
| 7 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 8 | And there is debate and notable disagreement about the consequences that elections not only do have but should have for public policy . |
| 9 | A principal sea-side town had become a large and squalid town by the sea ; not only did fashion begin to desert it by the later 1820s , but medical opinion could no longer treat it with the blind enthusiasm of earlier decades . |
| 10 | Not only did profit move well . |
| 11 | Such an exercise of critical self-analysis will not only help make you a more appetizing prospect as a subject , it will probably benefit you artistically as well . |
| 12 | Strategic Environmental Assessment would not only help reveal the level of sustainable resources ( new and recycled ) , but also determine the priority for their use . |
| 13 | Strategic Environmental Assessment would not only help reveal the level of sustainable resources ( new and recycled ) , but also determine the priority for their use . |
| 14 | The significance of this is that not merely does sight — particularly the excellent stereoscopic colour vision of the primates — require a developed cerebral cortex , but it also tends to mean progressive emancipation from the basic chemical and pheromonal control of behaviour seen in many mammals in which the sense of smell has retained its pristine importance . |
| 15 | Do it again to make sure you did not just let go of the stick in fright ! |
| 16 | This is one of the earliest references we have in Milton to his own dedication to the task of preparing himself for leaving something to aftertimes that it would not willingly let die . |
| 17 | Edward , if people phone when I 'm not here do please remember to tell me . ’ |