Example sentences of "only [be] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only is it necessary organizationally to stretch others , but it is also necessary that we should stretch ourselves . |
| 2 | It is obvious that , not only is it necessary for students with disabilities to have reasonable transport , but that their transport often has to be specially adapted . |
| 3 | Not only is it necessary to perceive an entire picture of yourself , but it is also necessary to see yourself in the context of your natural surroundings . |
| 4 | Not only is it bulletproof but it will also give you privacy to speak to the ambassador . |
| 5 | Not only is it good value for money , it 's clear that a great deal of thought has been given to the virus problem and how to cure it . |
| 6 | The Mind assesses their relative importance , and thus not only is it capable of analysis and disassociation of individual sensations but it can also synthesize a series of sensations into a single whole . |
| 7 | He makes more mess in his bedroom than she does and his is because , not only is it all papers and books and toys and everything else , it 's all his clothes as well . |
| 8 | Not only is it unprofessional to fail to acknowledge your limitations , it is equally unprofessional for managers to delegate care to a nurse who is unsure of her ability to implement it safely . |
| 9 | Not only is it close to the coast but also to a large river , the Kumbukan . |
| 10 | Not only is it impractical , and possibly unethical , to restrict psychobiological studies to work on humans and great apes but it would also mean throwing out most of the work done to date , since most of that has involved the use of non-primates like cats , hamsters , and especially rats . |
| 11 | Not only is it hepatotoxic but trace concentrations have been shown to interfere seriously with the breeding performance of male mice . |
| 12 | Arguments will no doubt be made that such a division is unrealistic ; but , in my view , not only is it essential for solving resource problems ; it is also a division which is made now , albeit not explicitly . |
| 13 | Not only is it cheaper than other methods but , with experience , it is also sensitive . |
| 14 | Not only is it possible for both men and women to have intercourse well into old age , but many of them do . |
| 15 | Not only is it possible to get an accurate computer analysis of the fundamental frequency of speech ( which can be displayed on a screen for someone doing practice on intonation , or can be used in the study of the intonation of large samples of natural speech ) , but it is now possible to get a computer to produce a simple phonetic transcription of what is said to it . |
| 16 | Not only is it impossible to demonstrate whether the writers of classical Greece really attained ‘ objectivity ’ ; but our regard for them and our ability to learn from them do not require it . |
| 17 | Not only is it impossible now to tell what the figures for the future will actually mean for the service , but even the informed observer or MP can not tell what has been happening . |
| 18 | Not only is it hard to see how the buyer can then bring an action for breach of contract , as opposed to invoking the express remedies of the clause , but , even if he were able to , there is no reason why general exclusion clauses capping liability or excluding liability for economic loss should not be effective , since they would then only have to pass the reasonableness test . |
| 19 | The mechanic says that on that year the truck the part was handcrafted in Zogmolia near Flelzonia and not only is it double reverse threaded but that its made from a rare alloy rendered from toxic wastes in New Jersey ; however , he has assured me while trying to hold back a laugh and spraying spittle all over me he knows a junk yard on Mars where he can get the part soon . |
| 20 | Not only is it quicker , in the exam , but every time you press a button , you know , you 've got a chance of pressing the wrong one , or |
| 21 | Not only is it able to process any text , whether grammatical or ungrammatical ( assuming such a distinction exists ) but it is also able to do this processing quickly and efficiently . |
| 22 | First , medical treatment other than symptom control or management is uncalled-for as a matter of law and , indeed , is inappropriate ; not only is it unethical conduct , but the doctor could also be subject to legal sanction . |
| 23 | To assert that conduct is orderly is , from our point of view , to imply that it is directed by a sense of social propriety — that not only is it non-random but that it is both generated and limited by prescriptions and the possibility of sanction , in particular the sanction of expressed disapproval . |
| 24 | So not only is it unwise to try to group patients , in terms of syndromes , it is not even possible to group them in terms of symptoms — that is , even a set of patients all showing the same symptom may not be homogeneous even with respect to that symptom . |
| 25 | Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness . |
| 26 | Not only is it quiet but it does n't frighten the rabbits in the way a shotgun does . |
| 27 | And er so not only is it fun , and exciting , but quite risky . |
| 28 | Not only is it problematic ( and doubly so for the user ) to port an application from AIX to SVR4 for example , but trying to manage the different environments on a network is even more difficult . |
| 29 | and all of this leads natural to the final fifth proposition not only does the bible teach that all may be saved , not only does it teach that however that not all will be saved , not only is it true and clear that some will be saved and we do not , do not , do not expect to be saved , not only is it quite clear that others will not be saved , who we expected to be saved , but finally it is quite clear that no one will be saved except by God 's way , and God 's way of salvation is very simply by repentance and faced . |
| 30 | Not only is it clear that part of an eye is better than no eye at all . |