Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [not/n't] only [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I would just like to add something to that , and the fact that it 's not only that women , that , that men are taught that they can rape and they can abuse women , but er that it 's alright ! |
| 2 | Also we mentioned an environmentally sound road system and it 's not only that we 're , as are you over there against the fourteen or twenty eight lane or whatever busy lane it is on the M twenty five , because by putting all just increasing the road capacity is gon na lead to great loss from Kings Kingston on Thames and Ashtead and Shepherds Bush to Solihull . |
| 3 | He says what you can see is most of the cities not only in Holland , but the whole world and of course in England have to deal with the growing of cars and it 's not only that the car is a good thing — the car has very bad things for the city as a whole . |
| 4 | ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ is set in the Deep South of Alabama , where the majority of white men will not accept Negroes into a white society and it 's not only that the Negroes do not live amongst the whites , in some cases they are treated as if they are nobody . |
| 5 | It 's not only that it 's all money in n it , that 's why |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not only because of last night . |
| 7 | It is not only that Charlie 's lives , like those of Tiresias , grow confused ; his expression , speaking out of modern London about remote and contemporary affairs , all in ‘ a confused tangle of other voices ’ , like a poetic ventriloquist , points in the direction of |
| 8 | It is not only that a significant part of most people 's pensions are invested in these falling Japanese shares but also that a significant part of Japan 's wealth is invested in the West . |
| 9 | It is not only that homeowners need the increase to allow them to move and to restore the equity which they invested ; lenders need an appreciation to restore the security on their fragile loan books . |
| 10 | It is not only that those extreme means of attempting to extort confessions , for example the rack and thumbscrew , which have sometimes disfigured the system of criminal justice in this country , are abhorrent to any civilised society , but that they and other less awful , though not necessarily less potent , means of applying pressure to an accused person to speak do not necessarily produce speech or the truth . |
| 11 | It is not only that our version of poverty — a mean and ragged insufficiency — is destructive , but so , also , is our version of wealth . |
| 12 | It is not only that no one on the planet has a bad word to say about Sybil : people trip over their superlatives . |
| 13 | In the example quoted , the first line leaves unstated the place to which Israel is to return ; the B-line specifies the full significance of " return " in A. It is true of course that it is not only that the B-line is more specific than the A-line but also that the A is more specific than the B. Such cases do not negate the parallelism of greater precision ; they are a subset of the examples of our feature . |
| 14 | Thirdly , it is not only that the approaches give different ‘ answers ’ , it is also that they are asking different questions . |
| 15 | It is not only that the social range of fiction becomes much more inclusive , allowing the writer to explore interiors that make no claim to architecture , but that living space itself develops individual character . |
| 16 | The way in which temporary working overlaps with each of the other forms of " non-standard " working identifiable through the LFS — namely self-employment and part-time working — is shown in Diagram I. As can be seen , it is not only that some temporary workers are self-employed and some are part-timers ; a sizeable minority are both . |
| 17 | It is not only that in the past unions have not tried or wanted to recruit such workers ; temporary workers themselves have often had no real interest in being recruited . |
| 18 | If experimental novelists metaphorically stare across the Channel , it is not only because they hope some valuable contraband — fresh styles from France — may be smuggled through English literary customs . |
| 19 | It is n't only that they enjoy commercial success and critical acclaim , but because they are , in the jargon of the trade , ‘ good copy ’ — talkative , controversial , witty and opinionated on a whole range of topics . |
| 20 | Well it is n't only that I mean er we do n't provide the food when they 're at home , do we ? |
| 21 | It was n't only that I could n't lift myself off the ground but that I was stuck to it in some way . |
| 22 | It was n't only that he was n't interested in her any longer . |
| 23 | It was n't only because she was fat , and it was n't only because she had no height , and it was n't only because she was plain , it was because she was a combination of all three . |
| 24 | It was n't only because she was fat , and it was n't only because she had no height , and it was n't only because she was plain , it was because she was a combination of all three . |
| 25 | It was n't only because she was fat , and it was n't only because she had no height , and it was n't only because she was plain , it was because she was a combination of all three . |
| 26 | It was n't only because she did n't want to trail damage amongst those who 'd helped her ; partly it was that calculating element in her mind again , that perpetual level of awareness that was tuned to seek out and recognise any opportunity that she could take to keep her in the game and moving . |
| 27 | It was not only that the industry needed propping up , but the whole film culture had to be rebuilt , and Forbes had clearly not grasped the scale of what needed to be done . |
| 28 | It was not only that my grandmother had given birth to and brought up eight children , and with the help of a Mrs Pipkin ( whose wages were ten shillings a week and an egg ) run a large house for many years ; there was the shop , and shops in those days were by no means labour-saving . |
| 29 | It was not only that animals were suffering to their detriment , but their abusers were themselves brutalised in the process . |
| 30 | ‘ It was not only that you looked so well in the clothes . |