Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] only [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must not only dress modestly , but behave modestly as well . |
| 2 | It must not only drop its concern for style and ethos but also for parish boundaries . |
| 3 | The child must not only remedy the situation caused by his or her negligence or transgression but also ‘ overcorrect ’ it to an improved or better-than-usual state . |
| 4 | He/she must not only offer an accurate description of the death-like oppressiveness of the capitalist world as it is developing in the first half of the twentieth century , but must also depict accurately and without facile romanticism or glib sentimentality , the angry and determined political struggle of men and women refusing to acquiesce to the oppressive forces of capitalist society . |
| 5 | Richard has gained power by the successful interchange of the two resources that Machiavelli ( as so often , drawing on Cicero but ignoring his moral scheme ) singled out as the means by which legitimate rule could be overcome , force and fraud : So he recommended that the Prince who wishes to succeed must not only unite the attributes of the fox and the lion , fraud and force , but in addition |
| 6 | He must not only distinguish behaviour from ideology , he must also take careful note of just how they are interrelated . |
| 7 | To meet this point I think one must say that Bentham 's view was , in effect , that a right action must not only do more good than harm , but must also be such that neither the particular good it does , nor any other comparable good which might have substituted for it , could have been achieved at less cost in terms of harm done . |
| 8 | And I must not only sit here and endure all this I must read her account of it at the end of the day , and think of something polite to say about it before I find ways of rewriting and neutralizing it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This new capitalism is a cut-throat enterprise : to stay in business you must not only compete with but beat your competitors . |
| 11 | People with bright ideas must not only carry their opinions out of politics and into the research institutions , but must regularly move back the opposite way when the call comes . |
| 12 | Responses to disruptive behaviour must not only recognise the importance of factors in the pupil and his background , but also the relevance of factors in the school itself . |
| 13 | In considering the welfare of the child , the court must not only recognise but if necessary defend the right of the child , having sufficient understanding to take an informed decision , to make his or her own choice . |
| 14 | The advisers must not only provide good financial and legal advice , but give continuing support to the managers during the ebb and flow of the buy-out . |
| 15 | A solicitor must not only disclose to you any commission over £10 that he or she receives but must also account to you for it unless you have agreed that he or she should keep it . |
| 16 | The customer must not only know the protections he is giving up ( see ( 2 ) below ) but must also be aware of the effect of giving them up ; ( 2 ) The firm has given him a clear written warning of the private customer protections he will lose ; all the main protections must be listed ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) and not just those specified by SFA itself in its guidance . |
| 17 | In order to draft effectively , and to make intelligent use of precedents , the drafter must not only know what to say but why it is necessary to say it , how to say it , and what will be the result of saying it differently . |
| 18 | Thus the salesperson must not only know his products ' benefits but the types of situation in which each would be appropriate . |
| 19 | But as a manager you must not only understand the appraisal scheme but also adapt it to your own needs . |
| 20 | The counsellor must not only understand that this is the way the counsellee 's life is predicted and determined , but has eventually to help the individual develop a more positive set of expectations . |
| 21 | To grasp the meaning of a handshake we must not only see it positively as located in a greeting ceremonial , that is in a sequence of actions identified with respect to the social act they accomplish , but we must also see it negatively , as excluding certain alternatives and possibilities of action . |
| 22 | In this case we must not only win the vote but we must have a hundred MPs in the House to vote for the closure . |
| 23 | He must not only master their content but be prepared to haggle away those items he finds unacceptable in acrimonious negotiations which may last many hours and in which ignorance is ruthlessly exposed . |
| 24 | As tool users , we must not only sharpen and reshape our tools , but sometimes make special ones for particular projects . |
| 25 | His wife must not only train up her children and maids in fear of God but attend to the wounds and sores of parishioners with her own hands . |
| 26 | If a scheme for Northern Ireland is to have a real chance of success , it must not only enjoy the support of a majority — it must enjoy also the acquiescence of most of the rest , a vivid illustration of the need for an adequate social foundation for any constitutional structure which is to enjoy even a modicum of success . |
| 27 | In order to give a rounded picture of the changes confronting the farm worker today , we must not only consider the transformations in work and technology and the equally manifest , if less discontinuous , factors underlying his level of pay and conditions . |
| 28 | These lessons must not only concern infrastructure , but also process ; not only the ‘ what ’ of traffic calming but also the ‘ how ’ . |
| 29 | In an analysis of the economics of the transition period , one must not only deal with ‘ pure ’ forms and categories . |
| 30 | We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance . |