Example sentences of "[verb] not only [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balchin 's study of this policy in West London in the 1970s draws attention to the fact that though improvement grants raised the housing standard of low socio-economic neighbourhoods generally speaking , they did not only benefit residents of the lower socio-economic groups . |
| 2 | The clergy did not only minister word and sacraments ; they also performed social roles for their flock . |
| 3 | Preambles to Community legal texts do not only contain recitals , the paragraphs beginning ‘ whereas ’ . |
| 4 | It is , however , vital that mothers realise that scans do not only detect abnormalities , they also detect multiple births , and have been one of the main factors in increasing the survival rate of twins and triplets over the last few years . |
| 5 | People talking do not only exchange information , and sometimes they exchange no real information at all ( 'nice day , is n't it ? ' ) . |
| 6 | And women have become more impatient with each other for allowing the divisions which men have created historically — class , racism and heterosexuality — to continue to divide us as women from finding ways of working politically that do not only liberate women but transform the systems of oppression themselves . |
| 7 | Hence , many public sector operating statements do not only show actuals but also budgets and comparisons of actuals with budgets . |
| 8 | As with the consolidation of the accounts of a group of companies , this does not only involve aggregation : there is also the elimination of any inter-fund balances to preclude double-counting . |
| 9 | Multimedia delivery from CD-ROM , of course , does not only place demands on the software developers in terms of design finesse . |
| 10 | Here the secondary process does not just operate through discourse , but is structured like discourse , while the primary process does not only discharge energy through the use of perceptual memories , but is structured like a ‘ perceptual field ’ . |
| 11 | The flow of funds from the personal sector to the financial institutions does not only represent workers providing for their retirement , but also represents the accumulation of wealth whereby socially privileged strata transmit their cultural patrimony ( e.g. saving through endowment policies to provide for private education ) . |
| 12 | For one thing , they feel the functionalist approach does not only neglect change and conflict but tends to ‘ reify ’ society — to treat it as a thing — by attributing to social structures capacities for thought and purposive action which only humans can possess . |
| 13 | It does not only teach people to obey the law out of fear and prudence ( which is deterrence ) ; it also sends a symbolic moral message that the offender 's action is socially abhorred , and therefore wrong . |