Example sentences of "but also [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it is likely that both phenomena will be at work simultaneously within an industrial relations structure such as prevails in Britain where trade unions are anxious not only to protect the real wages of their members from erosion by exogenous price increases but also to preserve their position in the pecking order of wage differentials . |
| 2 | We found that ministers had solemnly undertaken not only to repair The Grange , but also to open it to the public . |
| 3 | It is a man 's responsibility to educate himself but also to educate his wife and children . ’ |
| 4 | But also to put them in position whereby in the future , as the needs for further services emerge , they will be able erm , to , to contribute with the department for , for those services for that er , appropriate funding . |
| 5 | I recognise the importance of this particular game , not only from England 's quest to qualify for 1994 , but also to lift us out of our doom and gloom . ’ |
| 6 | The problem is not only to apply this principle , but also to respect its limits , in relation to the facts of particular cases in the light of the authorities . |
| 7 | They perform the function of a rite of passage whereby the reader is enabled not only to glimpse imaginatively the possibility of a reality which transcends the limitations of sense and intellect but also to validate it . |
| 8 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 9 | The database has been used by one group of learning support pupils who have used the printouts not only to find the books they want but also to organize their projects , using the questions as section headings . |
| 10 | If we do it correctly , the horse learns not only to be confident with us and to respect us but also to like us . |
| 11 | The reporter was ungentlemanly enough not only to do the calculation and obtain the correct answer but also to print it in the society column . |
| 12 | ‘ T is true that I came to warn you , but also to beg you to take me with you . ’ |
| 13 | The first , and political argument , is that historicism ‘ desires ’ not only to predict change but also to control it by centralized large-scale planning . |
| 14 | He used this argument not just to win the passive support of the miners ' wives and other dependants but also to mobilize their active participation . |
| 15 | Green was waiting for them , not only to give them lessons but also to sell them additional colours specially to represent the true Lake District tints . |
| 16 | Server enforced integrity , we 've already talked about the need for holding the business rules in a central repository with the data to protect that information but also to allow you to control the overall client server architecture much more tightly . |
| 17 | This exercise is valuable not only to enable the draftsman to produce a set of conditions which is most to the advantage of his client ( whether his client be buyer or seller ) , but also to enable him to understand the motivation of the other side when he is in negotiation with their advisers . |
| 18 | The purpose of a tie is not , as you might think , merely to hold a stem upright , but also to hold it firmly away from the stake and so avoid any possibility of chaffing or rubbing . |
| 19 | This change arose from a realization that war provided opportunities for the nobles not only to increase their honour and their prestige but also to enrich themselves . |
| 20 | Use them not only to record information , but also to explore your understanding of historical topics and issues . |
| 21 | However , he records with thankfulness that it ‘ pleased God not only to keep me from them ’ , but also to give him a friend whose example of zeal and practical godliness was of great spiritual help to him . |
| 22 | We launched this draw not only to encourage more people to enjoy ‘ old York ’ , but also to give them the opportunity to experience the excitement of New York . ’ |
| 23 | It seems that the evolution of his remedy preparation was fuelled by the desire to create , not only , a highly dynamised remedy but also to give it in the smallest dose ( quantity ) possible to effect a curative response . |
| 24 | It was therefore thought necessary to take steps not only to secure the defence of the Iberian Peninsula , but also to give it the ability to assume an offensive role if necessary . |
| 25 | This exercises and tones up the muscles to the side of your tummy , helping not only to improve your waistline but also to flatten your tummy . |
| 26 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 27 | It 's a software product designed to run on either PC or Macintosh computers , and offers not just the facility to record , but also to analyse your training performances over several sports simultaneously . |
| 28 | Juan Bosch Gaviño , 82 , on March 15 told the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , which he had formed in 1973 after breaking from the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , that he had decided not only to resign as party leader but also to withdraw his party membership , because of the bitter fighting between the right and left wings of the party . |
| 29 | The Gamegear reflects this desire , allowing youngsters to play their favourite games at home but also to take them away from their homes and enjoy them on the move . |
| 30 | Six days later , by the following Wednesday evening , she was able not only to lift the cigar up into the air but also to move it around exactly as she wished . |