Example sentences of "not only [vb -s] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Great Glen not only divides Scotland into two . |
| 2 | The virtually complete Student Five Nations Championship with fixtures played on the Friday preceding senior Five Nations matches , and the U21 Divisional Championship taking place on the Sundays following the last three Five Nations matches involving England , not only poses problems for players faced with selection for both , but also puts a great number of young players in the limelight as the Development Squad for the future is gradually moulded and refined . |
| 3 | ‘ The credit grantor not only requires confirmation of the existing loan commitments of a business prospect ; he also needs details of previous repayment patterns in order to assess how a commercial borrower is likely to cope with his own repayment structure . ’ |
| 4 | One of the most common experiments of this kind is making and firing of pottery , which not only tests methods of pottery construction , decoration , glazing , and firing methods , but also leaves the remains of the kiln itself which can be compared with excavated examples . |
| 5 | For such a plan not only allocates land for development but , as a consequence , distributes financial or environment costs and benefits . |
| 6 | The study not only describes changes in central-local relationships but it also attempts to explain them . |
| 7 | This analysis of the dominant building styles of our society suggests that a set of representations derived from the interests and perspectives of a particular group in society not only denies access to this aspect of culture to alternative perspectives , but at the same time causes these representations to appear to be the image of those who have been excluded . |
| 8 | The current financial-management approach to the investment decision not only lacks insight into how the underlying factors should be analysed , but also fails to recognize the different stages of developing projects . |
| 9 | Not only does development of this kind damage the setting , it very often fails to produce the promised restoration . |
| 10 | The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice . |
| 11 | Effective cleaning not only reduces risks from pests and food borne diseases , it also improves the efficiency of cooking and extraction equipment . |
| 12 | Also in this category , but published for the first time in this volume , is the article Jackie And Just Seventeen which not only records changes in the content of girls ' magazines over the 80s ( since McRobbie 's original analysis of the late 70s , also included here ) but registers theoretical developments as well through its attention to the ways in which girls as readers both construct their own meanings and interact with the texts . |
| 13 | Eventually we headed out of the city and got the feel of the lunar landscape by visiting the area of hot springs at Hveragerði which not only supplies Reykjavik with all the hot water for centrally heating houses , but heats the swimming-pools and greenhouses as well . |
| 14 | It is known as the Appropriation Act because it not only grants approval for the total sums requested , but also prescribes how the overall sum is to be apportioned to particular votes in order to finance specified services . |
| 15 | Lambeth Council in London banned a book , Midnight Circus , on the grounds that ‘ most carers ’ disapprove of circuses , and the presentation of an ape as the baddie not only raises issues of animal rights but has racial overtones — even though it turns out that the ape is really a white woman in disguise . |
| 16 | Not only has experience before marriage been less so , also , has experience within marriage . |
| 17 | This principle includes the need to see whether the professional or other body under scrutiny not only has rules of conduct , which will be thoroughly scrutinised within the statutory machinery , but also has an effective mechanism for enforcing the rules of conduct and is likely to enforce them . |
| 18 | The bichir , in fact , not only has gills like any other fish , but a lung as well . |
| 19 | He not only has room in his science for God ; he tries to create God using only some laws of physics , some simplifying assumptions , some outrageous extrapolations , and truly cosmic gall . |
| 20 | Indeed , Tan not only confirms Corbett at the level of the Court of Appeal , but extends it beyond marriage into , it appears , a case of general application , an outcome which Ormrod J. may not have intended or desired . |
| 21 | There is then a carefully chosen extract from the writer 's work , followed by a bibliography , which not only includes references to critical responses done at the time of publication but modern reassessments as well . |
| 22 | These differences influenced success or failure just as they did in earlier state-making attempts , especially through their effect upon economic growth , which not only provides resources for extending the state apparatus and developing national education , but is also a major factor in conferring legitimacy upon the regime . |
| 23 | One type of insulating lining has a coating of aluminium on the reverse side which not only provides protection from heat loss in winter but also prevents excessive heat build-up in a room during summer by deflecting the sun 's rays . |
| 24 | This not only provides flexibility in the use of man-power , it also improves communication . |
| 25 | Insider dealing , however , not only provides firms with a cost effective way of releasing news to the market , it also provides a speedy and efficient means by which the markets can integrate new information into the price of a security ( the ‘ market speed argument ’ ) and helps smooth out fluctuations in stock market prices ( the ‘ market smoothness argument ’ ) . |
| 26 | Putting weeds on the dinner party menu not only provides guests with added nutrition but establishes the host as a figure who truly understands the green revolution . |
| 27 | Such mis-managed demeaning talk not only induces feelings of worthlessness amongst old folk momentarily , but can , in the long run , reduce life-satisfaction , mental and physical health , with valued social welfare and medical resources being subsequently implicated . |
| 28 | This magnet effect not only puts pressure on the south east but makes it difficult for other regions to attract the type of investment necessary for their own economic revival . |
| 29 | It is tempting to speculate that this factor may be early childhood sun exposure , which not only causes development of large numbers of naevi but also acts as an initiating agent for later development of melanoma . |
| 30 | The shortage of cooking energy not only causes problems with nutrition , but also spreads disease . |