Example sentences of "not only [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range of professions utilized by the administrative agencies of the modern state not only encompasses all the traditional professional and scientific disciplines . |
| 2 | This versatile multi-function card not only combines all the benefits of a cheque guarantee card and Cashline card but also allows you to pay for goods and services quickly and easily without writing a cheque at retailers displaying the Switch sign . |
| 3 | The basic problem with budgetary reform is that it not only requires administrative reform , but also strong political support . |
| 4 | To master something of the knowledge to put them down on paper not only requires some study and drawing skills , but I believe a sense of rhythm as well . |
| 5 | Effective ministry in frontier situations not only requires dedicated skills and energies but it requires us to learn how best to wrestle with the principalities and powers . |
| 6 | The ‘ mature ’ writer not only survives those renunciations , they help constitute his art , an art which will always finally take priority over the plight of the other even if , as was the case with Gide , it also succeeds in mitigating it . |
| 7 | If , however , she keeps mating and not only gets several clutches going but is able to re-establish those that get lost , then she maximizes her chance of a successful breeding season . |
| 8 | Towards the end of this time , the mother looks as though she has a bunch of pink grapes on her underside and clambering about the branches or running over uneven ground not only becomes awkward for her but looks distinctly uncomfortable for her young . |
| 9 | Children soon take advantage of this inconsistency and the ensuing reward not only negates any potential influence of the punishment ( misbehaviour is likely to increase rather than decrease ) but debases the currency of the parent 's words and deeds . |
| 10 | Throughout their range black iguanas are hunted for the pot ; their meat not only tastes good , but is also reputed to cure impotency . |
| 11 | So Le Preziose not only tastes special , it looks special too . |
| 12 | The software library supported by Computer Services not only promotes general facilities that are found in modern computing departments ( such as languages and compilers , mathematical and scientific routines , databases , spreadsheets and word-processors ) , but also includes a large inventory of teaching software covering the spectrum of academic activity at the University . |
| 13 | The software library supported by Computer Services not only promotes general facilities that are found in modern computing departments ( such as languages and compilers , mathematical and scientific routines , databases , spreadsheets and word-processors ) , but also includes a large inventory of teaching software covering the spectrum of academic activity at the University . |
| 14 | As with de Santillana 's innovatory essay Kemp 's book not only offers new ways of understanding the history of science and the history of art but it also raises a host of historical and historiographical questions . |
| 15 | The venture group not only generates new ideas , but is also responsible for development and exploitation of them . |
| 16 | This not only generates extra profits , it also helps build relationships , with other companies , so , for example , MMT may be able to use a partner 's staff if necessary and vice versa . |
| 17 | The promise of privatised experience in such a crucial area as travel not only erodes public transport , but also feeds into the individualist selfishness of consumerism . |
| 18 | He not only transforms sad friend , but maintains my reputation for being a resourceful problem solver . |
| 19 | The Act not only imposes criminal sanctions for contraventions of its various provisions but also provides remedies for investors who enter into share transactions as a result of the contraventions . |
| 20 | More commonly , however , the agent for the owner or head charterer is a specialized ship 's agent dedicated to service only specified owners or head charterers , who not only books chartered space but also provides port services for the chartered vessel . |
| 21 | There is , moreover , a specially paradoxical version of it which arises from certain cases in which not only does extra conceptual content have to be introduced to characterize the human prohibition , but also the introduction of that content stands in conflict with the proposed biological explanation of it . |
| 22 | Not only does such an arrangement disrupt the child 's schooling — although arguably it has already been badly disrupted by the child 's absenteeism — but it can often also be a traumatic experience for the child , entrenching the resentment and disaffection which were among the major causes of the child 's truancy in the first place . |
| 23 | Not only does each generation begin with a single-celled bottleneck . |
| 24 | Not only does essential and interesting environmental work get done locally , but there is also the satisfaction of learning new skills in the fresh air and meeting like-minded people . |
| 25 | Not only does that provide a common bond among humanity to evolve spiritually , but it gives an insight into the nature of a God who often reveals Himself in paradox . |
| 26 | Not only does that initiative produce a wider range of services to benefit patients and extra resources for the health service but an improved range of hospital facilities , so that services previously available only to private patients in private hospitals are increasingly available to all patients in NHS hospitals . |
| 27 | Not only does mental disability vary so widely that it ultimately defies definition , but the extent to which a given mental disability , in so far as it can be measured in clinical terms , handicaps a person will depend not only upon the disability itself but on the patient 's social circumstances as well . |
| 28 | Not only does economic change ultimately determine social policy change , but also , she suggests , there are particular features of capitalism and the labour market within it that are dependent on the promotion of a particular ideology about women . |
| 29 | Not only does spinal stabilisation for early scoliosis in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy maintain sitting balance but it is also associated with a slower deterioration in lung function . |
| 30 | Not only does municipal rubbish seem to be growing more slowly than many people imagine ; the components which appear to be increasing are not the ones that have attracted most attention . |