Example sentences of "be not only [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Providing an assurance to parents that children are not only well fed but properly supervised during the mid-day break adds to the appeal of a school and could well be the deciding factor which finally influences parental choice in sending their child to your school rather than to your neighbour 's . |
| 2 | One important difference between them is that judges are not only legally trained but have invariably spent most of their working lives as practising barristers . |
| 3 | Ironically , it was a track which Lauda had always opposed on safety grounds and there had been much discussion about the Ring 's lack of safeguards and medical access ( the track is so long , – kilometres , that marshals and safety equipment were not only widely scattered but often whole stretches of the track , such as that where Niki 's car went off , could not be seen from any marshal 's post ) . |
| 4 | Children were not only frequently abused but did a fair bit of abusing themselves . |
| 5 | For Marxists , by contrast , the welfare of the masses is not only economically determined but a quantifiable function of the degree of their immiseration . |
| 6 | But around these primary typifications exist a whole array which operate in more specific settings ( court duty , post-mortems , the enquiry desk , and so on ) , whose use therefore is not only contextually related but also more restricted . |
| 7 | This description is not only more extended and specific than any one would find in Jane Austen 's novels ; it conceives of a house in a totally different way , as the foreground , not the background , of a fiction . |
| 8 | Fall-out from exhaust emissions is not only directly inhaled but can be ingested because lead settles on the hands and on vegetables , crops and fruit growing near roadsides . |
| 9 | But in the North Berwick branch 's case it is not only still functioning but has been electrifies . |
| 10 | However , it suddenly began to erode as a result of the emergence of a Japanese competitor that managed to produce a product that was not only competitively priced but also of comparable or better quality . |
| 11 | Of course all I needed was a two-minute sit-down and in two and a half minutes I was not only fully recovered and ready to carry on , I had adrenalin pumping out the top of my hat in anger that my man had left me to die . |