Example sentences of "only [vb base] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Not only do they tackle key issues which would otherwise be neglected under every-day pressures , but they also break down barriers and strengthen team spirit and understanding . |
| 32 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 33 | Pictures are useful for interviewing purposes as not only do they assist discussion during a group interview , but they enable the interviewer to estimate the communication skills of the candidates . |
| 34 | Not only do they have a greater opportunity to commit their favoured types of crimes , but they have the capacity to influence which of their behaviours will be regarded as corporate crimes in the first place . |
| 35 | It is important to recognise that such a circumstance may have significant psychological implications for the self-images of the individuals concerned : not only do they have less than everyone else , but they may feel and see themselves as different — less significant , less integrated , almost outside the mainstream of society . |
| 36 | Not only do they have better-paid jobs , but society expects that they should work and , for this reason , they may receive more help with looking after children . |
| 37 | Is he aware that one head teacher recently told me that not only do they have to teach in unsavoury conditions , but they are now having to teach in unsafe conditions ? |
| 38 | Erm , and not only do they have the red flag , there is the , erm , the Internationale for the the Communist Movement as well , and that apparently erm , was written by French workers in the nineteenth century , and it was used in Russia until nineteen forty-four . |
| 39 | But not only do they have to be tough motorists … they also have to be skillful photographers and writers too . |
| 40 | Not only do they believe their own PR , they generally eat and wear it too . |
| 41 | The prime purpose is to enable the recipients of the cards to know the other 's status so that not only do they bow correctly , but also use the proper form of language . |
| 42 | Not only do they trample detritus into the surface sand , they encourage the grass by grazing , and add nutrient in the form of their urine and faeces . |
| 43 | Brightly coloured and bottled in pretty jars , not only do they taste good but they look good too ! |
| 44 | Not only do they taste different , but they are very different in their performance when it comes to washing . |
| 45 | Not only do they see organised labour as overwhelmingly dominant within the world of interests , but the absence of any checks on the system has led to what they call an " overload of demands " on government . |
| 46 | Not only do they write of their personal experiences , speculations and fears , they also begin to imagine what people they know are thinking , saying , and most of all , what they are typing into their word-processors . |
| 47 | You do n't leave deadwood on your spreadsheets , cells that are formatted or unprotected , cos not only do they use memory where you 've got the cells but between that and something else . |
| 48 | Not only do they share the official theory of schooling but they hold ideas about discipline and order that are markedly more ‘ traditional ’ than those they believe the staff hold . |
| 49 | Not only do they lack legs but there is no sign of an internal girdle of bones at either shoulder or hip . |
| 50 | Not only do they agonize over which of their colleagues deserve which piece of ribbon , they are unafraid to set themselves in judgement upon those whose candidacy for an honour is based upon genuine distinction , perhaps in the arts or by voluntary work . |
| 51 | For example , many religions , er , give people reassurance in the sense that , for example , not only do they say there is a , a god , or gods or whatever there may be , but these er , deities play a providential role . |
| 52 | Not only do they look down , they also watch the movements of other vultures . |
| 53 | Not only do they include unkind and unflattering things about other people in the theatrical profession , they bear witness to their writer 's sexual habits and name names . |
| 54 | Not only do they operate under a variety of influences which limit their room for manoeuvre , but public examinations , based on subjects , are a major constraint , recently reinforced by the subject-based GCSE examinations . |
| 55 | Bacteria are very clever : not only do they practise breast-stroke , but they can also ‘ order up genetic information from other cells , with the same ease that human beings order take out pizza ’ . |
| 56 | But Packer 's difficulties are worth recognising because not only do they reveal something of the cultural context within which Auerbach 's work signifies , they also typify — albeit unconsciously — the burden of historiography and the demands of convention in writing about anything that purports to be a portrait . |
| 57 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 58 | Not only do they provide for lefties , they also keep the price the same as the right-handed models . |
| 59 | Not on , not only do they wee on the carpet but they also have a tendency to try and avoid , cover it up |
| 60 | Not only do they need a lot of power , they need a lot of patience . |