Example sentences of "not only [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am one of those people ’ , he has said in the past , ’ who must take exercise not only to be able to give of my best , but just to survive — I mean , I ca n't function without it . |
| 2 | If we do it correctly , the horse learns not only to be confident with us and to respect us but also to like us . |
| 3 | We need not only to be able to swim in a sea of uncertainty but also to resist panic when we get out of our depth . |
| 4 | In playing the role in which the ruler is seen not only to be ruler but also responsive to the general life of his subjects , Napoleon III may be credited with being the founder , or certainly one of the founders , of the concept of ‘ modern monarchy ’ . |
| 5 | They have been learning the in professional golf every shot counts and that in order to win , brilliance has not only to be attained , it has to be sustained . |
| 6 | The films were not only to be self-produced and self-distributed , but self-financed as well . |
| 7 | She was grateful not only to be with her aunt and uncle in that last year , but to be near Ernest and Charlotte so that they could discuss , usually when the older couple had gone to bed , the life which lay so tantalisingly before them . |
| 8 | The value of such study is clearly not only to be found in an increased familiarity with literary references . |
| 9 | I was happy in the work because of the acceptance by the government of my own interpretation of the task of public relations , namely not to be a propagandist agency acting on the assumption that the government was always infallibly right ; not only to be an information service about government policies , plans and activities ; but to be an agency interpreting the government to the people , and feeding back to the government the reactions and feelings of the people . |
| 10 | And make no mistake , the rum ration is very important to a matelot ; not only to be sipped or gulped , but something to be used for bargaining or the repayment of a favour , or even bottled and taken home on leave . |
| 11 | Above all , the extremely strong presumption against the legality of the use of nuclear weapons needs not only to be reaffirmed , but also made more specific . |
| 12 | To avoid considering these consequences on the grounds that they were not intended is not only to be blind to much human suffering , but also to accept the relative positions of intention compared with indifference on a common-sense hierarchy of immorality . |
| 13 | It is necessary for the nurse not only to be concerned with the outcome of the action but she must understand its origins and the process of carrying it out . |
| 14 | Now it would seem that they are not only to be denied an increase , but also to be faced with a reduction . |
| 15 | The book is also an attempt to link together and blend theory , policy and practice in the belief that well-informed policy and practice are likely not only to be more sensitive to the realities of clients ' lives and needs , but also more cost effective in the long term . |
| 16 | ‘ To promote closer union ’ means that it is , in the Council 's judgement , an acceptable means towards fuller unity in some circumstances , and not only to be seen as an expression of full unity already achieved . |
| 17 | However , the significance of the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians was not only to be seen in their effect on the Church , but also , according to Mrs Whitehouse , in their affinity with the secular intellectual elite which held sway in the 1960s : |
| 18 | They dismay the big auctioneers , such as Jacques Tajan of Ader-Tajan , and the modern paintings specialist Guy Loudmer , who believe competition from foreign countries not only to be beneficial to native companies of their importance , but also essential for Paris 's development as an art market . |
| 19 | Truths of geometry can be proved , and so known not only to be true but also to be necessarily true . |
| 20 | The accusations were flat and uniform , although what is truly remarkable is that the youth of the nation were believed not only to be free of all discipline , but also excessively affluent . |
| 21 | But they are not only to be seen on the street but within the mind 's eye itself : the mental set has changed in the post-1960 years of unprecedented exposure to visual imagery . |
| 22 | However , its use in a wide variety of disciplines has grown dramatically in recent decades , to the point where it seems not only to be facilitating what was done before , but to be creating new possibilities . |
| 23 | Canonical traits are not only to be found in words denoting living things . |
| 24 | In the second appeal , counsel thought it might have been relevant that the accused was shown not only to be the possessor of a deep , gruff voice , but also to hail from a working-class area of Dublin . |
| 25 | For all these purposes he needs not only to be a good lawyer but to have business acumen and an intimate knowledge of the problems of the trade or industry in question . |
| 26 | In animal studies , UV-B radiation has been shown not only to be carcinogenic , but also to alter the response of the immunological system ; this results in impeded recognition of a cancerous tumour as a foreign body . |
| 27 | Together with the Temiskamming and Northern Ontario Railway it also opened up northern Ontario , which was discovered not only to be good for settlement , but also to possess staggering mineral resources in copper , gold , silver , zinc , and cobalt . |
| 28 | The insistence on specificity ( both of the science and of its object ) and its basis in a differential strategy proved not only to be enormously productive and adaptable , but also remarkably consistent . |
| 29 | There are a variety of reasons for this , but one of them is that buying and selling shares is considered not only to be something for the rich but also to be very complex . |
| 30 | Already the atmosphere is such that companies such as Chubb Insurance Company of Europe is advising client directors to make concerted efforts not only to be familiar with all aspects of their companies ' activities but to take prudent action at the boardroom table : right down to ensuring all documents are prepared ‘ with the expectation that they will be scrutinised at a later date by others who are looking for evidence of wrongdoings ’ , that detailed minutes are taken , and that they should vote against any proposal rather than abstain because abstention could be construed as approval . |