Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] not only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students in other Community countries traditionally take wide-ranging curricula which include languages , philosophy , history , law , political science etc , disciplines which provide them not only with directly relevant skills for employment , but also ensure a common set of references and cultural values which are vital to mutual understanding and cooperation . |
| 2 | To this end , we urge you not only to use the Line yourself for shopping , sightseeing etc. , but also to encourage your friends , acquaintances , neighbours and relatives , who may not even know of the existence of the Line , to use it . |
| 3 | Remember , we want you not only to lose weight but to feel really healthy with your body in good nutritional balance . |
| 4 | Nowadays , however , specialists often restrict themselves not only to a particular type of find , but also to a specific archaeological period . |
| 5 | The letters of Gilbert Foliot , successively abbot of Gloucester , bishop of Hereford and London in the twelfth century , are singularly revealing , because they show us not only the range of a large family circle , but the strength of feeling which could exist between distant relatives . |
| 6 | Boy did not throw these letters away ; he kept them all , and indeed read them not only on the day that they arrived but again and again during the week before the arrival of the next one , but he did not keep these letters in his box , and he did not reply to them either . |
| 7 | We owe it not only to the people of Oxford but to those of Birmingham , Cardiff , Elswick , and even of rural Shropshire who have suffered . |
| 8 | Then you come along , and you tell me not only who made it but what his name was , how many eggs he laid and the colour of his tentacles . |
| 9 | Market them not only in this country but abroad . |
| 10 | that would be of interest , sort of allow them not only to be interested but would , would show them a variety of graphic design based on similar ideas . |
| 11 | And now Charles said quietly , ‘ Well , as an Englishman , Aunt Nessy , I find you not only a beautiful woman , but an amusing and brilliant one . |
| 12 | As you write , however , you inevitably commit yourself not only to propositions you explicitly assert , but also to other propositions which are implicit in , or presupposed by , the words you actually write down . |
| 13 | As a result , they feel themselves not only homeless but in a total existential crisis — ending up on the dossers circuit removes the last residues of respectability . |
| 14 | Use them not only to record information , but also to explore your understanding of historical topics and issues . |
| 15 | The members ' rights of ownership entitle them not only to make decisions personally about how their property is to be used , but also to delegate that power to others , and they are free to stipulate what degree of control they require over the discretion ceded by them . |
| 16 | Governing bodies must develop strategies for cooperation across LEAs which enable them not only to share some resources , but also to apply greater pressure on decisions about the size of the education budget . |
| 17 | Do we not only die , but go to hell for what we have suffered ? ’ |
| 18 | and quite honestly , I think they not only do they not bring them up to do , I mean useful like that , but I thought Ken 's his family never showed any affection any warmth , any caring , any love , and I would do anything for anyone if they just say thank you , but with Ken |
| 19 | The important element of them all is undoubtedly the dishonest appropriation of another person 's property — the treating of ‘ tuum ’ as ‘ meum ; ’ and we think it not only logical , but right in principle , to make this the central element of the offence . |
| 20 | And do it not only when their eye is on you and to win their favour , but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord ’ ( Col. 3:22 ) . |
| 21 | I suggest that we take them not only seriously but literally , since they represent the very root of the relationship around which the Sonnets are structured . |
| 22 | I recommend it not only for its excellent chapter on 17th century siege warfare , but also for the many clues it throws up en passant about where you might begin searching if you know of , or read about , a siege in your locality that is not in the book 's contents list . |
| 23 | Because most F.L. teachers have been concerned in their own learning almost exclusively with written language , it is necessary to treat this topic separately and relate it not only to the foreign language but also to the mother tongue . |
| 24 | Describing London as ‘ a city of illusions , subject every now and then to a series of harsh awakenings ’ , The Echo ( 11 August 1898 ) believed that while some of the stones were undoubtedly exaggerated they nevertheless served a purpose : ‘ We steadily shut our eyes to the submerged lawlessness of less fortunate districts until a series of Whitechapel outrages , or Hooligan exploits , make us not only aware of what is going on , but actually afraid of our lives . ’ |
| 25 | But then , of course , there is one step beyond that which most people would find an even greater challenge : to widen the circle so that we see ourselves not only as one part of one human family , but of the family of all life on Earth . |
| 26 | We need it not only to breathe but to protect us . |