Example sentences of "is not only [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Marxists , by contrast , the welfare of the masses is not only economically determined but a quantifiable function of the degree of their immiseration . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But in the North Berwick branch 's case it is not only still functioning but has been electrifies . |