Example sentences of "not only be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As noted earlier , these theories have not only been applied to people but also to people 's creations , such as works of art and writings . |
| 2 | Unless it is assumed that the original stream had a meander belt of varying width , we must conclude that the meanders have not only been incised but also more fully developed in the more resistant rock . |
| 3 | The Kitemark on a product will indicate that it has not only been made to a published specification , but that it has been independently tested by BSI as well . |
| 4 | In education , the liberal optimism of the 1985 Swann Report has not only been punctured by the policies of Conservative governments and by the ideological counter-offensive of the New Right . |
| 5 | Our interpretation is that gas-phase HNO 3 has by that time been sequestered in the condensed phase by heterogeneous reactions on polar stratospheric cloud surfaces , forming nitric acid trihydrate as temperatures fell below 196K in winter It is probable that a substantial fraction of nitric acid has not only been lost from the gas phase , but also removed from the stratosphere by the growth and subsequent sedimentation of aerosol particles . |
| 6 | It is therefore hardly surprising that Persian compositions have not only been reproduced in countless machine-made carpets in the West , but also emulated by most other rug-producing countries in the East . |
| 7 | By the time we have finished his chapter called ‘ The Heavens ’ , we have not only been informed about what the shape of the Ptolemaic universe was like , and how the belief in astrology worked , and how much knowledge was in our sense ‘ scientific ’ and how much ‘ poetic ’ or ‘ mythological ’ . |
| 8 | At Chalton in Hampshire and Cowdery 's Down near Basingstoke , the buildings were more regularly laid out but not extensive enough to be called villages , while at Catholme in Staffordshire and Thirlings in Northumberland , the earlier settlements had not only been abandoned , but probably forgotten when areas of ridge and furrow were laid out over the top . |
| 9 | If the story of Edmund 's connection with Swegen 's death does date from Cnut 's time , it is interesting , and seems to hint at one of the most resented aspects of Danish rule , that Edmund , like Ælfheah , had not only been martyred by the Danes , he had also refused to give them money . |
| 10 | From the onset of the first Five-Year Plan , if not before , social equality has not only been sidetracked , but forsworn as the object of policy . |
| 11 | Olaf 's major followers had seemingly not only been seduced by Cnut 's cash , but also angered , according to Adam of Bremen , by the king 's tendency to apprehend their wives for sorcery . |
| 12 | Three hundred and twenty-five works of art reported missing from Paris 's Musée Jacquemart-André in an inventory published in April 1991 by the Cour des Comptes the lofty body responsible for controlling public finance have not only been found , but never left the museum according to a second survey carried out by order of a Paris court . |
| 13 | That decline has not only been arrested but has been substantially reversed . |
| 14 | He has not only been nominated , he was won five Oscars . |
| 15 | Not only is having had some form of employment considered to increase a job seeker 's attractiveness to an employer and diminish the chances of a devaluation of his work skills , but temporary placings themselves can turn into permanent ones , either because the temporary position is made permanent or because the employer becomes acquainted with the capabilities of the temporary worker and recruits him into a vacant permanent position.1 Special temporary employment schemes such as the Community Programme are often justified in this manner , the suggestion being that they raise the chances of the long-term unemployed finding jobs some threefold ( Turner , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | Not only is walking the best , cheapest , all-round exercise available to everyone young and old , but it is ‘ green ’ , natural and organic . |
| 17 | Not only is starting a new career in accounting , but he is also a lead singer in a group called ‘ Cellardwellers ’ and will be starting a tour of 30 dates this summer , including Hamburg and America . |
| 18 | Landlords not only were assessed on their directly occupied land but were constantly calling for relief for tenants , for whom increasing poor rates were setting a ceiling for rents . |
| 19 | The Americans not only were spending heavily on their own forces but they also were determined to wring the maximum defence effort from European allies . |
| 20 | Not only were dancing masters expected to follow their own rules of dance but they also had to conform to the rules of the Académie Royale de Musique . |
| 21 | The claim of a holy Gad that those who have fellowship with him should not only be acquitted and accounted righteous , but actually and progressively be made righteous in an ethical sense is strongly brought out in the Pauline letters . |
| 22 | Words can not only be recognised without attending to them , but they can also , with practice , be read aloud and whole sentences , and even passages , can be read with intonation . |
| 23 | SVQs will therefore not only be recognised within that industry but will also be regarded as a counterpart of the NVQs accredited by NCVQ in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | The law can not only be condemned for being ‘ unnecessary ’ but also because those who formulate and publicly defend it are ‘ hypocrites ’ . |
| 25 | Apparent oppositions , they felt , should not only be tolerated but gloried in : ultimately they would prove to be resolvable in a wider harmony . |
| 26 | As in the case of parent-child relationships we find here that one-way flows of support can not only be tolerated , but also in a sense are expected , provided the direction of the support is from grandparent to grandchild . |
| 27 | The principal problem in reconstructing clothing from this evidence is that the range of dress-fastenings need not only be dictated by dress ; social identity and/or display may enter here . |
| 28 | Clearly , if the court orders the conveyance , or if the conveyance is by agreement to satisfy the claim of the wife , it will be inappropriate for the husband to convey " as settlor " since the conveyance is not a voluntary disposition or settlement ; for this to be an effective covenant the conveying party must not only be expressed to convey as " settlor " , he must actually be a settlor ( see Fay v Miller Wilkins & Co [ 1941 ] Ch 360 , although Emmet on Title ( 19th edn , Longman , para 14.003 ) expresses doubts concerning this decision ) . |
| 29 | If he wanted to refer a patient to a nursing home and the social work team recommended district nursing in the patient 's own home , he would not only be overruled but also have to foot the bill for the nurse . |
| 30 | When two or more persons took as tenants in common , the share of each was treated as a separate item of property which could not only be transferred by him in his lifetime , but which would pass on his death to his representatives . |