Example sentences of "[not/n't] only [prep] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | That We should bear it in mind that blacks and Asians in this country have to cope not only with Chas 's disadvantages but with additional discrimination because of the colour of their skins ? |
| 2 | This approach is consonant not only with Mannheim 's project but also with the way that knowledge will be construed later in this book . |
| 3 | They are probably at ease not only with women 's tears but with a range of private feelings and needs for dependency and intimacy . |
| 4 | which drew heavily not only on Sharp 's papers but accounts and memories of him by fellow abolitionists . |
| 5 | British seamen in the US deserted in droves , alarming the new British government and bringing about a revived dialogue not only on seamen 's complaints about the inadequacy of British pay , the constantly recurring problems of loss of wages and effects when torpedoed and the inroad made by railway fares when they were paid off from diverted ships , but also on the dangerous state of mind of seamen who were incensed by the conviction that they were constantly subject to neglect , mishandling and coercion . |
| 6 | This new freedom to travel safely far and wide had a profound effect not only on men 's lives but also on their thoughts and beliefs ; these men who were being uprooted provided ‘ the background to the anxious thoughts of the religious leaders of the late second century ’ . |
| 7 | The civil servants watched with barely concealed glee as the ruling party became embarrassed when the North Koreans demanded compensation not only for Japan 's colonial rule but also for all the years since . |
| 8 | North Korea reiterated its demand for compensation not only for Japan 's colonization of Korea from 1910 to 1945 , but also for damage suffered in the post-war period , for which Japan disclaimed responsibility . |
| 9 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 10 | The carvings were placed on the reverse , not only for ornamentation 's sake but to make the seats heavier . ’ |
| 11 | In Director of Public Prosecutions v. Gordon [ 1990 ] R.T.R. 71 it was held that Hobbs v. Clark applied not only to driver 's option cases but also to obligatory section 7(4) cases and this was followed in Paterson v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1990 ] R.T.R. 329 . |
| 12 | The principle of quality costing applies not only to RX 's external customers but also to each workgroup 's internal customers within the RX value chain . |
| 13 | We should take this to refer not only to Bacon 's schemes for collaboration in natural philosophy , schemes actually embodied in the existence of the Royal Society , but also to his very conception of that subject . |
| 14 | Stenhouse 's proposal was in marked contrast , not only to Hoyle 's , but , for different reasons , to the tradition of curriculum development that had developed in the 1960s , both in the UK and the USA . |
| 15 | So began a glorious episode in Hindu legend , leading not only to Ravana 's defeat at Rama 's hands , but , centuries later , to problems for the secular forces ruling modern India . |
| 16 | During much of the post-war period , commentators had drawn attention not only to Britain 's relative economic decline , but also to the dangers of the country entering a period of absolute decline . |
| 17 | Nora got up looking forward not only to John 's return that evening but to a quiet morning lazing on the sands beneath a big parasol , with Sarah and Sam . |
| 18 | All such changes are related not only to people 's work lives but to the decisions of ( often multinational ) house building companies ; the latter increasingly investing in ‘ up-market ’ houses and retirement homes for people who have seen the value of their home rapidly increase . |
| 19 | According to newspaper reports other governments privately demanded an extension of the scope of the negotiation to deal with the security interests not only of Germany 's neighbours but of Europe as a whole . |
| 20 | It is one of many indications of the limits , not only of Anselm 's notion of his own responsibility as archbishop , but of the concerns of the Church as a whole . |
| 21 | He had engaged Bishop in conversation on the travel belts one day , displaying an uncanny knowledge not only of Bishop 's life , but also of his innermost thoughts . |
| 22 | After reading this manual , the reader should have an understanding , not only of LIFESPAN 's low level functions , but of how best to put them to use . |
| 23 | The reproduction of an historic statue of the Mother of God in the Cathedral , demonstrates a sensitivity to the vibrant traditions of the past , drawing on them so as to enrich ones own faith not only of God 's choice of Our Lady and her example , but also of the many wonderful traditions in the diocese which provides continuity , constantly enriching the present . |
| 24 | They gleamed not only about Mama 's neck but tumbled almost as far as her waist — and could seem all different colours . |
| 25 | From such references as these , the figure of Judas Thomas emerges not only as Jesus 's twin brother Jude . |
| 26 | I recognise the importance of this particular game , not only from England 's quest to qualify for 1994 , but also to lift us out of our doom and gloom . ’ |
| 27 | These failures arose not only from Edward 's lack of adequate financial resources , but also from the effectiveness of Philip VI 's resistance and the reluctance of the English to take on the French in pitched battle , as the stand-off at Buironfosse showed . |
| 28 | The irritation is evident not only from Valerie 's switch to a more Creole-like phonology but also from the intonation and amplitude of her response . |
| 29 | The Dukeries field was ( and still is in many respects ) different from many others on all three of the components of a place , as illustrated not only by Sunley 's arguments ( following Krieger and others ) regarding the different social relations at the workplace , but also Waller 's ( 1983 , p. 235 ) that whereas the Dukeries villages were praised for many of their design aspects , ‘ the social and political institutions of the miners in the new South Yorkshire villages left much to be desired compared with traditional and long-established coalfields ’ . |
| 30 | Much of Muskie 's political fame was earned from his leadership in environmental affairs , which was now being eroded not only by Nixon 's proposals but also by a Ralph Nader report on air pollution which strongly criticized Muskie 's role in the past and just stopped short of accusing him of selling out to industrial polluters ( Lundqvist , 1980 ) . |