Example sentences of "[not/n't] only [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , a significant element of research is not only funded by the government , or quasi-governmental agencies , but also organized on a customer-contract basis . |
| 2 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 3 | Choose your type of moisturiser , not only according to your skin type , but also in relation to the climate . |
| 4 | Rousseau was keenly aware that majority decisions , or even unanimous ones , are not necessarily right — right , that is , not only according to the moral criteria of any particular individual but from the point of view of the good of the community itself . |
| 5 | There was certainly nothing oppressed about Marjorie , who not only slept around the Midlands circuit , but had a controlling interest in his finances . |
| 6 | Such payment , furthermore , is thought not only to detract from any generosity that might otherwise characterize her action , but altogether to cast doubt on her motives and her reliability . |
| 7 | The clash in underlying values between Britain and the United States on the one hand and the former Soviet Union on the other , is illustrated by the fact that an act of financial speculation — which has not only led to the accumulation of great wealth but has also occasionally received public honour in Britain and the United States — might have earned the perpetrator the death sentence in the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | Restoration here has not only led to the repair of townscape , it has also created jobs for skilled craftsmen ( conservation creates more employment per pound than new build ) , and led to much needed housing for homeless and disadvantaged people . |
| 9 | Now er let's just accept that as a fact as we go by erm it looks as if mothers not only discriminate against un un unfit offspring , but also against males . |
| 10 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton the Minister for Education and Housing at the Scottish Office not only ascended in a ‘ cherry picker ’ with the Principal to uncover the Napier University sign at Merchiston but also unveiled a plaque and addressed the crowd , praising the contribution of the Scottish ‘ Techs ’ to Scottish education and to the local and national economies . |
| 11 | Today a fibre-rich diet , often including bran , is not only advocated as a preventative measure : it is also widely used in the treatment of this disease . |
| 12 | Work that not only calls for construction skills but also presents opportunities for BICC to supply power , telecommunications and control cable systems — another major part of our worldwide business operation . |
| 13 | This walk not only takes in the lovely moorland around the Doone Valley it also runs along the shady woodland paths on the banks of the East Lyn river . |
| 14 | The Bermuda talks not only resulted in an agreement for air transportation between the two most important civil aviation powers , but provided the pattern by which all other bilateral agreements on civil aviation were arranged . |
| 15 | Minton 's zestful response not only captures in vivid terms the quality of these artists ' work , but it also reveals his own anxiety about what contemporary art should do and be . |
| 16 | ‘ They 're not only fightin' fer better wages . |
| 17 | In the first place the division of trade between intra- and extra-trade is not only affected by economic integration . |
| 18 | With hindsight , of course , it is now possible to question the glamorizing of drug-taking in such films as Easy Rider , Psych-Out and The Trip and others ; the in-built health warnings were seldom noticed and there was a certain drugs bandwagon rolling , anyway , largely created in the pop industry where drug usage was not only referred to , even poetically eulogized in song , but physically demonstrated by some of its more tragic exponents like Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix and Janice Joplin , to name but three in a long line of fallen idols and heroes . |
| 19 | There the register-keeper was well and truly confused , since he not only referred to children of ‘ Charles William Titford , Linen Draper , Bishopsgate Street ’ — a nomenclature which we are used to by now — but also made an error when it came to wife Anne 's name — she appears as ‘ Mary ’ . |
| 20 | This is not only expressed through direct welfare , housing and educational provision to families which helps to ensure an adequate supply of suitable labour , but also in the reproduction of wider ideologies of popular consent which make it difficult for the rule to see the possibility of any other form of economic and political organization . |
| 21 | In other words , Bukharin completely forgot that the extended reproduction … must not only lead to growth of c and v but also to that of α , i.e. to the growth of the individual consumption of the capitalists . |
| 22 | This exploratory and performance-based approach will not only lead to a deeper understanding of the text in question ( a dramatic exploration of a speech in Shakespeare , for instance , will show how the placing of different emphases can alter fundamentally one 's interpretation of character or meaning ) , but will also lead to an understanding of the play as theatre . |
| 23 | However , because the sun not only participates in the daily rotation of the heavens from east to west but also has its own slow annual motion relative to the stars in the opposite direction , different heliacal risings occur throughout the year . |
| 24 | The time taken to perform a search is not only influenced by the indexing language and system , however , but also by system response times , search strategies that are available and the style of the dialogue in a computer-based system . |
| 25 | Brigadier and Mrs. Carter lived in a large house in Brown Street — he was fat , very pompous with a waxed moustache , having exceptionally long spikes ; Major Forbes from Fowlers Hill , who not only looked like but also dressed like King George V — whether by accident or design I do n't know , Mrs. Bowyer , the widow of an Australian Bishop who lived in Fowlers Road was very big and wore outsize hats which accentuated her size and finally the Headmaster , Mr. E.J. Russ . |
| 26 | Stead 's dramatisation of the issue of sexual exploitation not only stilled for the moment many fundamental conflicts of interest between participants in the agitation , but it also obscured the contradictions inherent in the ideology that informed this agitation against child prostitution . |
| 27 | The words are organized around symmetrical pairs ( grace/wretch ; lost/found ; blind/see ) and the tune , at least in its best known version , not only divides into an open/closed parallelism , through its cadence structure , but within this , the subsidiary phrases form complementary pairs ; moreover , the overall pitch contour follows the arch shape typical of this song type ( see Ex. 1.1 ) . |
| 28 | They are not only based on nature , they copy nature , line almost for line . |
| 29 | And I think this is a pretty critical problem , and of course it 's not only based on Sussex schools , but it 's based on a number of schools throughout the country which we 're studying to see the effects of this programme . |
| 30 | You must realise that the King not only fell from a great height but the sea pounded his body to and fro against the rocks . ’ |