Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] but [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he wanted to refer a patient to a nursing home and the social work team recommended district nursing in the patient 's own home , he would not only be overruled but also have to foot the bill for the nurse . |
| 2 | The trouble is that the Scottish Education Department disagrees with both of us and insists that religious observance must not only be reinstated but also reinforced . |
| 3 | Another important development will be compact disks that can not only be read but also written to , so the user can make his own amendments to the data . |
| 4 | Warnings from western diplomats that he would ‘ not only be imprisoned but perhaps killed ’ failed to deter him , despite the trouble encountered on his way out of Malawi . |
| 5 | His title-pages specify that his songs may not only be sung but also played ‘ on all sorts of instruments ’ ( auff allerley Instrumenten zu brauchen ) ; indeed the non-tenor parts are often obviously instrumental , as in Senfl 's ‘ Wol kumpt der May ’ in Ott 's 121 . |
| 6 | You can leave a library without a book , but with information obtained from the Reference Section , from which books may not be withdrawn but only consulted . |
| 7 | Infra-red may be regarded as a form of light to which the human eye is insensitive — that is , it can not be seen but otherwise behaves in practically the same way . |