Example sentences of "not only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not only a constitution which really was and is effective in the running of the state , but which was itself the product of the hegemonic culture already established . |
| 2 | Not only a question about the big glass . |
| 3 | Not only a question about art . |
| 4 | It was only later that I discovered Ghatak was not only a director , but also , in his own , idiosyncratic way , a teacher and theorist of cinema . |
| 5 | This is not only a source of plant foods , but also encourages earthworm activity . |
| 6 | The observation that a sensory system has a relatively low threshold for the form of energy which it transforms into experience is not only a pre-scientific empirical observation but also one that science could not reform — if reform were necessary — nor independently validate . |
| 7 | To do this they will need not only a knowledge of the vocabulary of steps through which dancers communicate , but an ability to explain their design so that dancers can give it depth of feeling ( see page 78 ) . |
| 8 | Nevertheless he is uniquely different because he is not only a hero but also a powerful magician in the tradition of many Slav and Asiatic epics . |
| 9 | THE guest beer market is not only a target for UK companies . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference . |
| 11 | But he is not only a fine actor and an even finer dancer he is also uncommonly and unabashedly sexy . |
| 12 | But in the months following the diagnosis , Mrs Henry found that it was not only a life-threatening disease that she had to contend with . |
| 13 | The country has to decide whether higher education is not only a private good but a public good . |
| 14 | In some ways this boom is even more extraordinary , because it represents not only a new taste but a subtly different attitude towards works of art . |
| 15 | By the time he became vice-president of International Creative Management , one of the largest talent agencies in the world , he represented not only a host of illustrious American stars — Helen Hayes , Mary Martin , Arlene Dahl , Maureen Stapleton , Ruth Gordon , Carol Channing , Lillian Gish — but most of the leading actors of the British theatre , including Laurence Olivier , Ralph Richardson , John Gielgud , Rex Harrison , Peggy Ashcroft , Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave . |
| 16 | For years 45 Sutton Place became a meeting place and home-from-home for the entire British colony in New York — a place where British actors , writers and directors , great and small , knew that they had not only a constant refuge but a friendly shoulder to lean on and a sympathetic ear . |
| 17 | Six months or so of this produced not only a degree of understandable tedium -even the most terrifying things can become boring if lived with long enough — but what I would call an inverse effect . |
| 18 | This is not only a matter of familiarity but of the connected conditions of relaxation and self-confidence . |
| 19 | And this was not only a Cambridge graduate but a Cambridge resident . |
| 20 | His predecessor but one , Hensley Henson , invented the magazine the Bishoprick and by the force of his writing made it a national and not only a diocesan journal . |
| 21 | To find its most lasting realization , Charlie 's vision would have to wait for a bank clerk who did understand metempsychosis , and who had not only a commercial education gained in an underground room at Lloyds Bank , but also a knowledge of Greek . |
| 22 | Yet , as one of his prose pieces of the period reveals , the desert remained for him not only a place of death , but also a place of Christian triumph . |
| 23 | By the late 1970s the state sector had become not only a harbour of inefficiency , as in many ‘ developed ’ countries , but also a greenhouse of the hybrid values emerging in Africa many of which were inimical to efficient methods of low-cost production . |
| 24 | Capital is thus not only a political critique of society but it is also a criticism of the terms in which the economy was discussed at the time when he wrote , and a demonstration that these terms are moulded to the purposes of the system they pretend to analyse . |
| 25 | To serve and suffer is considered not only a woman 's lot but right . |
| 26 | It showed not only a lot of racism and sexist vanity on the part of the psychiatrist but ignorance about the way of life of his patient . |
| 27 | She was in fact not only a housewife but a homeworker , sewing blouses at 35p a piece . |
| 28 | It remained in place only a few minutes more , When the Commanding Officer ordered not only a change of the command team which had built it , but a change of design as well . |
| 29 | All too briefly , until his untimely death in 1944 , there was an Archbishop of Canterbury who was not only a learned philosopher and theologian but was also able , in such writings as his Readings in St John 's Gospel to speak to people at a simple devotional level . |
| 30 | His team , World Cup finalists and dotted with household idols , were taken to the cleaners by a bunch of Australian students and farmers in the first Test , and the second Test at Lille promises to be not only a trial of Fouroux 's incumbency as coach but also his tactical shrewdness in selection . |