Example sentences of "not only did [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did Nonconformists suffer severely under the savage penal laws , but a whole range of other people were drawn into the process of enforcing them , which meant that they could be forced to decide whether their sympathies lay with Dissent or with the intolerant Anglican establishment . |
| 2 | Not only did Gassendi take sense-experience to be the criterion or measure of truth , he also adopted Epicurus ' atomistic view of the universe . |
| 3 | Not only did Nicola Larini manage to bring the new Modena-Lamborghini through pre-qualifying and then into the race , he gave the new team more than it had thought possible by finishing seventh , albeit three laps behind . |
| 4 | For not only did Mrs Keppel maintain her position as maîtresse en titre but she became one of the leading personalities of the Edwardian court . |
| 5 | In the US steel industry not only did employers control a rapidly changing technology but the small number of very large firms which existed possessed vast financial resources . |
| 6 | The next paragraph says that not only did Lord Young cut the published penalty clause for BAe from £650 million to £400 million as disclosed in the National Audit Office memorandum , but offered ‘ a private side-letter ’ waiving the penalty ‘ the text of which would be agreed with BAe in advance ’ . |
| 7 | Not only did newspapers contain a disproportionately high number of items needing repair , but further investigation showed that those newspapers which were in need of attention tended to be in a much poorer condition than defective monographs or serials . |
| 8 | Not only did Shearer fail to score , but Monkou also refused him licence for so much as a solitary shot at goal . |
| 9 | Larry Ellison 's having quite a month : not only did Oracle finally get version 7 out , his house got a to-die-for spread in Architectural Digest . |
| 10 | Not only did Amy always travel with them but John was regularly at rehearsals . |
| 11 | Not only did Pateman undertake lectures and courses for the Board , he was also chairman of the RCC 's adult education committee . |
| 12 | Not only did factors draw on it in some years for London , but later in the century the rise of Plymouth as a naval centre provided a counter attraction for corn from its eastern half which might otherwise have gone into the increasingly populous western mining districts . |
| 13 | And not only did Gerry Fitt , the SDLP 's only MP at the time , abstain in the vote , he persuaded Independent Nationalist MP , Frank Maguire to abstain as well . |
| 14 | Not only did trader and master subvert that sense and render the victims of the Middle Passage ‘ incapable of deriving any benefit from Christianity ’ but slave trading and slavery were a context conducive to sinfulness by loosening constraints on passion . |
| 15 | Not only did Iraq , by the middle of the war , enjoy a six-to-one advantage in conventional aircraft , bombers ( the Tupolev Tu-22s and Tu-16s , the Ilyushin 11–28s ) and fighter-bombers ( MiG-23s , Su-7s and Su-20s ) ; it was also reported to have an assortment of Soviet-made missiles . |
| 16 | Not only did women earn less than male officers but they were kept to shoplifting , domestic violence , child cruelty and sexual crime . |
| 17 | Not only did farms become larger and more specialized , but village craftsmen — millers , blacksmiths , carpenters , wheelwrights , bakers , and cobblers — were squeezed out as their trades were concentrated in the towns . |
| 18 | Not only did government growth require little positive commitment , the acceptance of a form of Keynesianism termed by Rose and Peters as one-eyed Keynesianism' , seemed to be telling politicians that public expenditure growth was a good thing . |
| 19 | Not only did man make tools , but tools made , man . |
| 20 | Not only did Devon beat them , they also lost to Wales . |
| 21 | Not only did management set up functionally differentiated work groups but they also split up jobs within each group into such constituent elements as cutting , scuffling , drilling , hewing , filling , pulling , and stonework . |
| 22 | Not only did Bushika become lost , he flew completely off the official map to land at Budapest international airport . |
| 23 | This far underground , not only did Mait 's enhancer have no effect , but he could sense a strong source of pure malevolence which was almost tangibly present all around . |
| 24 | Fortunately not only did growth return but on a scale far exceeding expectations . |
| 25 | Not only did rate-capping legislation have relatively little impact on spending patterns in selected authorities , it is questionable even whether overall local government spending was actually reduced . |
| 26 | During the following days it became apparent to Merrill that not only did Luke mean to keep Rob 's nose well and truly to the grindstone , but he did n't intend to take the pressure off her either — although , in fairness , she had to admit that Luke worked harder than both of them . |
| 27 | Again early in the second half he was just wide , but after 49 minutes he did succeed when not only did Wakefield collapse a scrum but they were also offside . |
| 28 | The point here is that not only did surrealists see art as being composed of signifying elements drawn from the real , but understood reality to be composed of signifying elements . |
| 29 | ‘ Did you enjoy seeing your father 's studio ? ’ she suddenly asked and it seemed to Jenna that not only did Alain stiffen alarmingly but Marguerite appeared to ice over . |
| 30 | Not only did Wilson have a good ‘ pair of ears ’ , in musicbiz speak , but she was also a formidable negotiator , tenacious in the pursuit of acts she wanted to sign , and in fighting her corner over day-to-day interdepartmental matters . |