Example sentences of "only did [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For not only did Mrs Keppel maintain her position as maîtresse en titre but she became one of the leading personalities of the Edwardian court . |
| 2 | Not only did Nonconformists suffer severely under the savage penal laws , but a whole range of other people were drawn into the process of enforcing them , which meant that they could be forced to decide whether their sympathies lay with Dissent or with the intolerant Anglican establishment . |
| 3 | Not only did women earn less than male officers but they were kept to shoplifting , domestic violence , child cruelty and sexual crime . |
| 4 | Not only did farms become larger and more specialized , but village craftsmen — millers , blacksmiths , carpenters , wheelwrights , bakers , and cobblers — were squeezed out as their trades were concentrated in the towns . |
| 5 | I only did mornings but even the mornings were too much for me . ’ |
| 6 | Not only did management set up functionally differentiated work groups but they also split up jobs within each group into such constituent elements as cutting , scuffling , drilling , hewing , filling , pulling , and stonework . |
| 7 | Not only did newspapers contain a disproportionately high number of items needing repair , but further investigation showed that those newspapers which were in need of attention tended to be in a much poorer condition than defective monographs or serials . |
| 8 | Not only did Amy always travel with them but John was regularly at rehearsals . |
| 9 | Larry Ellison 's having quite a month : not only did Oracle finally get version 7 out , his house got a to-die-for spread in Architectural Digest . |
| 10 | Not only did Devon beat them , they also lost to Wales . |
| 11 | Not only did trader and master subvert that sense and render the victims of the Middle Passage ‘ incapable of deriving any benefit from Christianity ’ but slave trading and slavery were a context conducive to sinfulness by loosening constraints on passion . |
| 12 | Not only did Bushika become lost , he flew completely off the official map to land at Budapest international airport . |
| 13 | Not only did government growth require little positive commitment , the acceptance of a form of Keynesianism termed by Rose and Peters as one-eyed Keynesianism' , seemed to be telling politicians that public expenditure growth was a good thing . |
| 14 | Not only did Iraq , by the middle of the war , enjoy a six-to-one advantage in conventional aircraft , bombers ( the Tupolev Tu-22s and Tu-16s , the Ilyushin 11–28s ) and fighter-bombers ( MiG-23s , Su-7s and Su-20s ) ; it was also reported to have an assortment of Soviet-made missiles . |
| 15 | In the US steel industry not only did employers control a rapidly changing technology but the small number of very large firms which existed possessed vast financial resources . |
| 16 | Not only did Gassendi take sense-experience to be the criterion or measure of truth , he also adopted Epicurus ' atomistic view of the universe . |
| 17 | Not only did Shearer fail to score , but Monkou also refused him licence for so much as a solitary shot at goal . |
| 18 | And not only did Gerry Fitt , the SDLP 's only MP at the time , abstain in the vote , he persuaded Independent Nationalist MP , Frank Maguire to abstain as well . |
| 19 | Not only did Pateman undertake lectures and courses for the Board , he was also chairman of the RCC 's adult education committee . |
| 20 | Levi 's only did Sta-Prest — and imitations always looked it — usually too tapered , crumply , and the wrong tones . |
| 21 | Not only did Nicola Larini manage to bring the new Modena-Lamborghini through pre-qualifying and then into the race , he gave the new team more than it had thought possible by finishing seventh , albeit three laps behind . |
| 22 | Not only did factors draw on it in some years for London , but later in the century the rise of Plymouth as a naval centre provided a counter attraction for corn from its eastern half which might otherwise have gone into the increasingly populous western mining districts . |
| 23 | The next paragraph says that not only did Lord Young cut the published penalty clause for BAe from £650 million to £400 million as disclosed in the National Audit Office memorandum , but offered ‘ a private side-letter ’ waiving the penalty ‘ the text of which would be agreed with BAe in advance ’ . |
| 24 | This far underground , not only did Mait 's enhancer have no effect , but he could sense a strong source of pure malevolence which was almost tangibly present all around . |
| 25 | Not only did man make tools , but tools made , man . |
| 26 | It was , on one level , a very public romance — for not only did Barenboim and du Pre make fantastic music together , but also they were married in Jerusalem amid the elation surrounding Israel 's victory in the Six-Day War . |
| 27 | So , not only did Anderson 's Dungannon qualify , but they quickly went to the top of the Division Two table and are now making a great bid for promotion . |
| 28 | Not only did recognition not stop the fighting , it made no contribution to the solution of the central generator of the war , the Serbian question in Croatia . |
| 29 | Indeed there are things which suggest that not only did vase-painting at Athens in this time move pari passu with free painting and sculpture but that the same person may sometimes have worked in more than one of the three crafts . |
| 30 | Not only did David 's suggestion earn him a Winning Ideas Gold Award and the tidy sum of £1,000 but also a luxury trip to the Imola San Marino Grand Prix . |