Example sentences of "only [verb] but [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the Second World War had resulted in the most terrifying weapon of destruction being not only developed but also deployed against the enemy . |
| 2 | The result was that the Ops inspectors were not only permitted but actually put under pressure to qualify and remain current on at least one large modern public transport aircraft while at the same time flying club and private aircraft as well . |
| 3 | Better that it should end like this , when justice was not only done but manifestly seen by all to be done . |
| 4 | By the 1860s in Britain , people of all sorts were becoming increasingly concerned about the ‘ residuum ’ , the body of paupers being supported by the Poor Law who not only persisted but steadily increased . |
| 5 | There is a real possibility that the newcomer is not only exhausted but possibly wounded by the time he has won the harem . |
| 6 | His early training as an engineer stood him in good stead , and he not only devised but also constructed most of the apparatus that he used . |
| 7 | By the time ‘ Chronic Diseases ’ had been published , Hahnemann had decided that the remedy should be not only succussed but also diluted before repetition , and he formulated the fifty millesimal scale , in which we have both more succussion ( one hundred times instead of ten times ) and greater dilution ( fifty thousand times instead of a hundred times as in the centesimal scale ) . |
| 8 | Within the map all of these judgments were not only recorded but also grouped and related , so that the broken and sequential account afforded by conversation was presented in an immediately available visible format . |
| 9 | The elaborate network of " sympathizing mass organizations " built up through the Comintern by Willi Muenzenberg was not only maintained but rapidly expanded . |