Example sentences of "[verb] not only [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the diversity lies not only in the differences between people , the sitters , but also in different ways of photographing and in the varying contexts within which we encounter the image . |
| 2 | He must know not only about the risks he wishes to avoid , or to take , and the price at which he is prepared to transact , but also more about the characteristics of the underlying instrument such as its volatility and the degree to which its price is correlated with the risky prospect against which he seeks a hedge ( or upon which he plans to speculate ) . |
| 3 | The NORTH U21s , managed by Dave Parker , enjoyed their biennial pre-season tour to Marvejols in Central France where they were hosted for their week long visit by French families as the result of town twinning with Cockermouth , and the fantastic hospitality and often adventurous leisure activities were enjoyed not only by the players but also by referee Fred Howard , who officiated in the first two matches . |
| 4 | The rationale for these objectives lay not only in the inadequacies which were acknowledged to exist in the secondary schools surveyed , but more fundamentally in the educational philosophy which prevailed with the significant actors at that time . |
| 5 | This need for verbal intelligibility was recognized not only by the Reformers in the Lutheran hymns and Calvinist psalm-settings but by the semi-Reformers ( Cranmer 's view that the musical setting of his translation of the liturgy in 1544 should ‘ not be full of notes , but , as near as may be , for every syllable a note , so that it may be sung distinctly and devoutly ’ ) and the Counter-Reformers ( the direction of the Council of Trent in 1562 that the words of the Mass ‘ should be uttered clearly and perfectly , and sink quietly into the ears and hearts of the hearers ’ , not with music ‘ contrived for the empty delight of the ears ’ ) . |
| 6 | The governing process refers not only to the activities of Cabinet , Parliament , nationally and locally elected representatives but also includes those of the large public bureaucracies of civil servants , the police , the army , the courts and so on . |
| 7 | ‘ A lot of the credit for that goes not only to the photographers themselves who have argued their case for greater prominence , but a great debt is owed to people like the editor Harold Evans who pioneered the creative use of photography in papers . |
| 8 | Visiting should be tailored not only to the needs of the elderly person but also the amount of time you can reasonably spare from other family responsibilities . |
| 9 | For Nizan the moral strength afforded the writer by revolutionary ideology eliminates the need for self-justification within the ethos of his work , eliminates the need to apologise for failing to conform not only to the conventions of bourgeois political structures , but also to the conventions of bourgeois literary structures . |
| 10 | Currently , especially in the Western world , the mass media provide a constant reminder that personal safety is threatened not only by the elements , and objects and events in the environment , but also by the humans who make up the society . |
| 11 | The unofficial theory is revealed not only in the accounts by pupils of perceived offences against them by teachers , but is also seen in other images of school . |
| 12 | He had been one of the most respected and admired deaf men of his time , and he was missed not only within the ranks of the BDDA but also of the NID , on whose executive committee he had served since its reorganisation in 1924 . |
| 13 | A young man in his late teens by the time of the council of Whitby and the son of the reigning king in Bernicia by Eanflaed , daughter of Eadwine , Ecgfrith was almost certainly in a position to attract support not only among the Bernicians but also among the Deirans in the territory of Ealhfrith , and in the last years of his reign Oswiu did make him sub-king of Deira . |
| 14 | This pattern is made not only by the dancers ' feet as they move over the surface but also by the dancers ' bodies as they move through space . |
| 15 | In the case of Kuwait , invaded by Iraq in August 1990 , this would refer not only to the Iraqis setting alight the oil wells but to the deliberate pumping of six million barrels of oil from refineries into the Persian Gulf waters . |
| 16 | Just how important a role means-tested assistance plays in the Government 's overall strategy is seen not only in the numbers claiming this form of social security , but in its growing share of public expenditure . |
| 17 | With country house gardens , it is important to remember that the grounds consist not only of the lawns and terraces immediately round the house , but also large walled gardens and extensive woodland walks and shrubberies . |
| 18 | It should look not only at the responsibilities of Government , but at the contributions that others make : business , local authorities , NGOs and members of the public alike . |
| 19 | I was already working as Derek 's apprentice carpet-fitter in my spare time — when I had any — but the wage I was getting was going not only on the birds ' upkeep but also on mine . |
| 20 | During our stay we were awakened not only by the cocks , but on several occasions by piercing screams coming from the rice-paddies behind us , which would continue for some time before abruptly stopping . |
| 21 | Those who will seek to understand United States policy on Kuwait , Somalia and Bosnia in the 1990's will want to look not only at the personalities and style of presidents and advisers , but at the content of the knowledge base of their DSS , and above all at those who designed the system and created its rule base . |
| 22 | The Steam Museum is dedicated to the steam engine which was used not only on the railways but in industry too . |
| 23 | Expansion could take a number of forms , as exemplified not only in the differences between , for example , Spanish and English colonization of the ‘ New World ’ but also between different English colonies . |
| 24 | The scale of these stations was dictated not only by the numbers of passengers they had to handle and the imperial power they had to represent , but by the complexity of the Indian railway operation , and the range of facilities that had to be made available to the hierarchic and heterogeneous nature of the passenger traffic . |
| 25 | The English criminal justice system is unique in conferring the power to pass sentence on two completely different sets of sentencers who contrast not only in the powers at their disposal , but also in their social background . |
| 26 | Following its defeats in municipal elections and in elections to the House of Councillors in July 1989 [ see pp. 36800-01 ] , the LDP had embarked upon a programme aimed at reasserting and regaining the political influence which had been damaged not only by the scandals but also by the imposition of an unpopular 3 per cent general consumption tax [ GCT — see p. 36618 , where it is wrongly referred to as a value added tax ] and by the liberalization of import controls in the agricultural sector [ see p. 36800 ] . |
| 27 | Those educationalists who deny children these opportunities are confining them to the ghetto , to a restricted discourse which will close to them access not only to the professions but also to leadership in national politics . |
| 28 | It might also be hoped that a fairer distribution of resources would result but that might depend not only on the restraints of the individual care manager 's budget but also on the priority given to dementia . |
| 29 | As a group they are eclipsed not only by the connections of local magnates , but by the affinity which developed around the queen and her brother earl Rivers . |
| 30 | As a group they are eclipsed not only by the connections of local magnates , but by the affinity which developed around the queen and her brother earl Rivers . |