Example sentences of "but also [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the OECD area as a whole , industry 's share of total employment passed its peak only in 1969 , and its subsequent reduction in importance was more modest than in the UK , which , almost uniquely , has not only lost much factory employment but also suffered a net loss of factory output from 1974 to 1988 . |
| 2 | This led to further changes in management structures and processes but also represented a significant challenge to professional power to determine priorities . |
| 3 | It clearly represented for him a literary turning-point since it not only swept aside all mystifying attempts to separate the literary activity from the contemporary socio-political context , but also injected a coherent set of political arguments squarely into the literary debate : anti-fascism , anti-colonialism , anti-capitalism , arguments that were beginning to find much grass-roots and intellectual support in France . |
| 4 | The exception is Kent , which not only imported a particular range of materials from the Continent , but also maintained a near monopoly over those goods . |
| 5 | Like all the other vibrancers in the house , she wore loose trousers and a shirt of pale colours , but also affected a bright red embroidered waistcoat to denote her superiority in status . |
| 6 | NORWEB not only paid the ELR a commercial rate for the daily goods train but also made a substantial donation to the ELR-coach restoration fund . |
| 7 | Furthermore , Henry was not content with investing himself with merely an administrative and political imperium , but also claimed a spiritual supremacy , arguing that the monarch was the vicar of God . |
| 8 | Robert Green 's card of 1752 is more explicit , leaving nothing to chance ; but he had a reason , for not only was he in business as a furnishing undertaker but also provided a wholesale service to the trade in general . |
| 9 | Central government not only mapped out extended statutory territory for local councils to develop , but also provided a large financial incentive for them to cultivate the new territory . |
| 10 | The patients not only showed an improved continence mechanism , but also reported a significant decrease in urgency . |
| 11 | In the next year , one in which bad harvests had pushed up the price of wheat to 119s. 6d. a quarter , the overseers not only paid 1s. per week to Mary , but also found a further 2s. per week for Thomas himself from 26 May until 30 June on account of him having ‘ No work ’ . |