Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] only that " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to stereotyping , the justifiable objections are not only that males and females are depicted as occupying separate and ‘ traditional ’ spheres , but that the books present an over-exaggerated version of contemporary gender roles . |
| 2 | My position will be not only that the model of perfect competition fails to help us understand the market process , but that the models of imperfect competition developed to replace it are little more helpful . |
| 3 | It is not only that Charlie 's lives , like those of Tiresias , grow confused ; his expression , speaking out of modern London about remote and contemporary affairs , all in ‘ a confused tangle of other voices ’ , like a poetic ventriloquist , points in the direction of |
| 4 | It is not only that a significant part of most people 's pensions are invested in these falling Japanese shares but also that a significant part of Japan 's wealth is invested in the West . |
| 5 | It is not only that homeowners need the increase to allow them to move and to restore the equity which they invested ; lenders need an appreciation to restore the security on their fragile loan books . |
| 6 | The implication of the term is not only that it is a privileged group but that , as a result , its members will not desire change and so be a conservative force in society . |
| 7 | It is not only that those extreme means of attempting to extort confessions , for example the rack and thumbscrew , which have sometimes disfigured the system of criminal justice in this country , are abhorrent to any civilised society , but that they and other less awful , though not necessarily less potent , means of applying pressure to an accused person to speak do not necessarily produce speech or the truth . |
| 8 | It is not only that our version of poverty — a mean and ragged insufficiency — is destructive , but so , also , is our version of wealth . |
| 9 | ‘ The sobering thought , as decades turn , ’ says social psychologist Duncan Cramer , ‘ is not only that we have less time to live , but that options also narrow . ’ |
| 10 | The significance of this case is not only that the House of Lords effectively over-ruled the majority decision in Candler but also that in doing this the judgment went beyond Lord Denning 's minority judgment . |
| 11 | The indictment of this book is not only that the authorities have permitted certain specific excesses of which examples are described , but that they have deliberately promoted and condoned violence , crime and racketeering in order to alienate both their terrorist and political opponents from their natural sympathisers . |
| 12 | It is not only that no one on the planet has a bad word to say about Sybil : people trip over their superlatives . |
| 13 | In the example quoted , the first line leaves unstated the place to which Israel is to return ; the B-line specifies the full significance of " return " in A. It is true of course that it is not only that the B-line is more specific than the A-line but also that the A is more specific than the B. Such cases do not negate the parallelism of greater precision ; they are a subset of the examples of our feature . |
| 14 | The usefulness of some system of cooperation and team work is not only that the particular subject knowledge or skills of teachers can be pooled and shared , The teacher also needs support and advice in a more personal and practical sense . |
| 15 | Thirdly , it is not only that the approaches give different ‘ answers ’ , it is also that they are asking different questions . |
| 16 | It might be argued that a tacit assumption of research which examines girls ' 'failure' in science is not only that girls are inadequate-not measuring up to the standard of boys — but also that maths , physics and chemistry are more difficult and more important than English , languages , history and biology . |
| 17 | It is not only that the social range of fiction becomes much more inclusive , allowing the writer to explore interiors that make no claim to architecture , but that living space itself develops individual character . |
| 18 | One of the major difficulties with much of the literature on regional geography-both the ‘ traditional ’ and the so-called ‘ new ’ — is not only that no methodology is provided but also that the main differentiating characteristics of places are not identified . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the real difficulty is not only that costs seem to be higher in areas of sparse population , but they are also likely to increase as depopulation occurs . |
| 20 | The way in which temporary working overlaps with each of the other forms of " non-standard " working identifiable through the LFS — namely self-employment and part-time working — is shown in Diagram I. As can be seen , it is not only that some temporary workers are self-employed and some are part-timers ; a sizeable minority are both . |
| 21 | It is not only that in the past unions have not tried or wanted to recruit such workers ; temporary workers themselves have often had no real interest in being recruited . |
| 22 | The point is not only that we do as a matter of fact accept " the same meaning " and " a different meaning " as intelligible concepts , but that any attempt to define the criteria of interchangeability of expressions with regard to their meaning presupposes their intelligibility . |
| 23 | The lesson from Chernobyl is not only that the public requires governments to react more effectively next time , but also that there is a need to ensure that a Chernobyl-type accident does not happen again . |
| 24 | The reason for this is not only that these organisations are inherently unlikely to broadcast such material , but also that they are subject to different controls as to the content of what they broadcast . |
| 25 | The reason we have a hierarchical organization of work is not only that tasks occur in lower and higher degrees of complexity — which is obvious — but also that there are sharp discontinuities in complexity that separate tasks into a series of steps or categories — which is not so obvious . |
| 26 | One of the main reasons why intra industry trade has risen , right , is not only that consumers want to purchase different varieties and different qualities of the same good erm that it , it 's very easy to differentiate the product in manufactured goods right . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of OSO is not only that it has continued as a headquarters unit functioning from Glasgow for so long , but that it survived the Thatcher era as an interventionist wing of Government intended to nudge work in the direction of British industry . |
| 28 | Yeah , I would just like to add something to that , and the fact that it 's not only that women , that , that men are taught that they can rape and they can abuse women , but er that it 's alright ! |
| 29 | Also we mentioned an environmentally sound road system and it 's not only that we 're , as are you over there against the fourteen or twenty eight lane or whatever busy lane it is on the M twenty five , because by putting all just increasing the road capacity is gon na lead to great loss from Kings Kingston on Thames and Ashtead and Shepherds Bush to Solihull . |
| 30 | He says what you can see is most of the cities not only in Holland , but the whole world and of course in England have to deal with the growing of cars and it 's not only that the car is a good thing — the car has very bad things for the city as a whole . |