Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [be] [not/n't] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report by the West Yorkshire Low Pay Unit demonstrated that it was not only residents who ran the risk of exploitation , but also the staff . |
| 2 | Even this affects church life , as I shall show , but we must recognise that it is not only rank hedonism that flourishes under private banners . |
| 3 | It should never be forgotten that it is not only by using trusts or companies in tax havens that fiscal advantages may be obtained . |
| 4 | I realise that it 's not only an illness , I suppose , but it 's quite selfish in a way . |
| 5 | But in the months following the diagnosis , Mrs Henry found that it was not only a life-threatening disease that she had to contend with . |
| 6 | Brown and Harris found that it was not only discrete events which could provoke depression . |
| 7 | It was a lunchtime event which proved most enjoyable , and people left realising that it 's not only the banks that can do something to cover themselves . |
| 8 | AIDS causing the death of the young has highlighted that it is not only the elderly who wish to make provision against an artificially prolonged end . |
| 9 | Whilst this suggests that a large number of people make use of the procedure , the recent research figures reveal that it is not only private citizens , but also ‘ large organisations ’ and other ‘ small litigants , ’ who make extensive use of the procedure . |
| 10 | For a brief moment , it seemed that it was not only the presidents of newly independent Third World countries who had to take special precautions before departing on state visits . |
| 11 | Once again the movies learnt that it was not only the wealthy and respectable who liked to think that they were being given the best . |
| 12 | This chapter has argued that it is not only national population size , composition and behaviour that matter but also their changing patterns across regional and urban systems . |
| 13 | Prompting some to suggest that it 's not only his tongue that should be examined . |
| 14 | Do remember that it is not only the signed and sealed contract that helps to concentrate people 's minds on their commitments . |
| 15 | The finding that ‘ ee ’ occurred significantly less often in the gead condition than in the other two conditions shows that it is not only the single grapheme that is used as a unit in reading non-words aloud . |
| 16 | Remember that it is not only a refusal to perform your normal duties which can amount to gross misconduct . |
| 17 | In relating everyday experience of consensus pressures to the overarching priority of economic growth , we find that it is not only the state that constructs their operation . |
| 18 | This means that it is not only effective for those who suffer from spinal disorders but in the treatment of many other conditions too . |
| 19 | ‘ Your friend Kafka — I 'd have lobotomized him , speaking personally — he said that it was not only Budapest but the whole world that was tragic . |
| 20 | Well I 'd like to say that it 's not only adults who have an interest in this subject and have been watching what the county council is going to do about it . |
| 21 | The record goes on to show that it was not only the handing over of the Yugoslavs that was discussed at these conferences . |
| 22 | Perhaps we could all agree that it is not only a question of money . |
| 23 | This suggests that it is not only at the levels of syntactic and semantic analysis that language processing is interactive . |
| 24 | Wilfrid 's failure to secure a sympathetic hearing suggests that it was not only Oswiu 's family which found him unpalatable . |