Example sentences of "they were not only " in BNC.
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| 1 | He therefore sought to show that they were not only capable of reconciliation , but , albeit obscurely , identical . |
| 2 | From the dress of both the man and the woman she realised immediately that they were not only strangers , but class . |
| 3 | They were mostly crews who had successfully completed one tour of operations ( 30 missions ) , so they were not only skilful but also lucky . |
| 4 | In creating artificial forms they were not only careful to ensure that their siting was appropriate but also that all the elements in the design , such as shape , proportion and size , respected Nature rather than acted against it . |
| 5 | There would always have been ambivalence towards her charges because they were not only a means to an end , but also rivals for the limited rations of parental attention . |
| 6 | In them , the police were not shot at by gunmen as in the home districts of the Provisional IRA , On the contrary , they were not only welcome , but received deputations from residents from time to time imploring them ‘ to take the gangsters off our backs ’ . |
| 7 | They were not only evidence of disagreement amongst abolitionists but perceived by contemporaries to have different religious and political characteristics . |
| 8 | The little terraced houses , with gardens front and back , that Loudon advocates have now doubtless been demolished as substandard , for each floor could measure as little as 12 feet by 12 feet ; but they were not only a great advance on the slum housing in industrial towns ; they provided interiors that could give the domestic virtues at least a chance of growth . |
| 9 | So long as these suppositions were taken seriously , they were not only reassuring , but frequently effective . |
| 10 | They were not only pressed into service , but were forced to become Muslims and to learn Turkish , and they were not allowed to marry . |
| 11 | They were not only revived from time to time in Venice during the next twenty years but performed in a number of other Italian cities . |
| 12 | If workers were spending their time in this way , they were not only exercising a leisure preference but were consuming a non-essential . |