Example sentences of "not only give [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not that these judgements should not be made , but that where subjective judgements are made by the teacher she should be aware that this is so and be prepared , not only to give reasons for her judgements , but also to be sufficiently flexible to change them in the light of particular circumstances . |
| 2 | Overall , the objective is not only to give prominence to the life and work of a highly original and much underrated communist intellectual and novelist , but also to scrutinise the example of Nizan as a guiding principle for action in the present . |
| 3 | It is important not only to give time but to be genuinely interested in your teenagers and in what interests them . |
| 4 | Many more recent innovations in costume have led to today 's all-over leotard and tights which has not only given dancers complete freedom of movement but has given choreographers freedom to design as they will without constricting rules and conventions . |
| 5 | The back of the palisade wall can be lined with polythene which will not only give protection against continuous wetting of the timber , but will also stop soil oozing through . |
| 6 | A neighbourly area with at least a few houses nearby will not only give company and a better community feeling but also add to security and safety . |
| 7 | In its recent working party discussion document , entitled Freeing Up Small Business Enterprise , the institute points out that the replacement of the present mandatory audit by an annual accountant 's report ‘ would not only give business better value for money but would also reduce the number of small company failures as more time could be devoted to the survival and growth of small business enterprise ’ . |
| 8 | The valves enclosing the tentacles not only give protection to these soft delicate structures , but concentrate the water into a steady stream so that it flows more effectively over them . |
| 9 | Numbers not only give managers a better sense of their company 's impact on the environment ; they provide a baseline against which to judge waste reduction . |
| 10 | In normal or right sexuality , argues Scruton , we not only give recognition to the other 's person in and through our desire tor him or her , we also accord them accountability and care in the process . |
| 11 | Not only giving injections , but even branding horses can be done in a calm , easy , and reassuring way so that the horse is not upset . |
| 12 | Greek civilization not only gave rise to philosophy but it also produced , in the fifth century BC , the first real historians . |
| 13 | It is worth adding , as something of an aside , that the experimental result just described not only gives reasons for preferring the associative account but also seems to demand an explanation in terms of acquired equivalence rather than acquired distinctiveness . |
| 14 | This not only gives guidebook compilers a hard time but also stops new lines getting repeated while the weather 's good . |
| 15 | It is the reasonable foreseeability of harm arising from one 's conduct which in many types of cases not only gives rise to the duty of care to avoid inflicting such harm , but also provides the test for determining whether a person injured by the careless conduct of another falls within the class of persons to whom a duty of care is owed . |
| 16 | This process not only gives identification and hope for the newcomer , it also reminds the old-timers that they forget at their peril how life used to be . |