Example sentences of "only [vb -s] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Absorbing the few staff children only involves the school in small extra costs such as food and laundry . |
| 2 | It not only involves the user more demonstrably in the process and provides him or her with a visible record of the interview , but also begins to construct a historical picture of the older person . |
| 3 | The process of assessment , therefore , not only involves the recognition of a problem or issue , and the ability to identify and collect all the relevant information from a variety of sources . |
| 4 | When correcting a question , it is not satisfactory to give without comment , a mark such as 10/20 ; this only irritates the student and leaves him/her to guess the reason for the loss of marks from the printed solutions ; and often the guess will be incorrect . |
| 5 | The Farm represent everything utterly obnoxious about this country , probably not their fault as they never had a decent education , but glorifying football thuggery , provincial mediocrity and small-minded plebbiness only encourages the pettiness of our current society . |
| 6 | He has a dyslexia type problem , which not only spoils the presentation and spelling of his work , but inhibits him from starting it . |
| 7 | In other words , the cereal-packet image not only neglects the diversity of family forms at any one time , it also obscures the changes that all families go through . |
| 8 | Smith , on mess duty , did not go ; nor did Temple , who only rides the engine with the turntable ladder . |
| 9 | The wind must be blowing from them to you , since this not only minimises the noise you may inadvertently make but it prevents your scent blowing towards the rabbits and giving them advance warning that all 's not well . |
| 10 | Auerbach 's work not only discourages the enumeration of biographical detail , the reading of signs of dress , the interpretation of expression in relation to known biographical data of the portrait subject . |
| 11 | This type of clause usually only grants the right of suspension , as opposed to termination , where the seller can not deliver because of force majeure . |
| 12 | It not only represents the profession towards the Institutions of the EC where it has made significant contributions , but is also the focal point for the discussion of matters of common interest to the profession throughout Europe . |
| 13 | Where lesser imaginations , like that of Charlotte M. Yonge , can be adequately described as ‘ products of their time ’ ( because , like mirrors , they reflect back to their world merely the domestic images they took from it ) , a vision as peculiar as Dickens 's not only transforms the actuality , but subtly alters the reader 's perception of it . |
| 14 | Our brain not only turns the image the right way up , but also adds a considerable amount of detail . |
| 15 | Since BBCBASIC(Z80) only skips the rest of the line when it encounters DEF , there is a danger that the remaining lines of a multi-line definition might be executed directly . |
| 16 | — Because he only wants the land , see . |
| 17 | He only wants the family there . |
| 18 | Shel only needs the diploma . |
| 19 | When we come across a victim then , we should never attempt to solve their problems for them , since this only reinforces the idea that they are helpless victims of circumstance , with no strengths and resources of their own ; it disempowers them still further . |
| 20 | This only reinforces the unwillingness of free-swimming whales to leave their comrades , and even after their companions had died the free whales stayed , and only too often fell victim themselves . |
| 21 | If it does , that only reinforces the irrelevance of Biblical teaching to the relationships of workers and bosses today . |
| 22 | This finding not only reinforces the review that the engram site has been correctly located , it also strongly suggests that the engram is intracellular — it remains stored in the cell but ca n't be communicated when the neurotransmitter is inhibited . |
| 23 | The fact that half of the members of the Bundestag are selected from party lists , rather than being elected , only reinforces the power of the parties , weakens accountability and is open to the usual favouritist pressures . |
| 24 | There is no easy way back up out of the spiral because if a government attempts to buy back public support in order to alleviate the " political " problem of governability then this not only overtaxes the economy but stimulates inflation so further exacerbating the " economic " problem and making sustained and balanced growth all the more difficult . |
| 25 | To be fair the answer was in the manual but this only highlights the fact that the various packages do n't automatically integrate themselves with the InteMate manager . |
| 26 | The youth department not only supervises the quality of substitute care provided in professional terms but is mandated to involve natural parents in the assessment of the relevance of a programme to the needs of their child . |
| 27 | You are our future , and if school leavers are untrained or unskilled , without a home and the economic means to advance , not only has the government failed them , it has failed the country too . |
| 28 | Not only has the Government failed to appreciate the importance of the fare mechanisms and allocated systems such as BR 's Business Systems division in dealing with complexities of out-and-back fares on journeys where a multiplicity of different routings are available . |
| 29 | That first sentence setting up the idea in the reader 's mind that not only has the narrator committed a murder but that something has gone wrong and he has , despite all precautions , been found out . |
| 30 | Not only has the ratio of average house prices to average earnings fallen from a peak of 4.5 in 1989 , to 3.2 , but mortgage rates have tumbled to their lowest level for 25 years . |