Example sentences of "not only [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She refers , in particular , to radical feminists who turn on its head the criticism that women are more emotional than men , and claim that not only are women more emotional , but that this is their strength , and that in comparison , men are enfeebled , deadened and impoverished creatures . |
| 2 | Not only are guillotine motions being introduced with phenomenal frequency ; they are being introduced at a very early stage . |
| 3 | Not only are defendants who are committed for trial in the Crown Court at risk of heavier penalties than magistrates are likely to impose ( see below ) , but the increased numbers are also likely to add to the already serious problems of delay in the Crown Court to which we have already referred . |
| 4 | Not only are departments prepared for a Tory or Labour minister but also a Liberal Democrat one as well . |
| 5 | Not only are peak users paying for the high marginal costs they impose , but also those users who would not mind consuming at a different time ( e.g. households with night storage heaters , who can use electricity at a time when marginal costs are low ) are induced by cheaper prices to switch to consuming at off-peak times . |
| 6 | Not only are wood and other forms of cellulose technically efficient but they are also fantastically successful , judged by any quantitative criterion . |
| 7 | Not only are meals of excellent value , but the atmosphere is friendly with a genuine courtesy which some more pretentious establishments nearer home would do well to copy . |
| 8 | Erm my honourable friend will remember that er under er part two of the Maastricht treaty erm titled to citizenship er article eight er not only are citizens of the union erm given certain powers but they 're given rights conferred by the treaty which should be subject to the duties imposed thereby . |
| 9 | The present case suggests that not only are counsel under a duty to point out errors they observe but , citing Donoghue , that ‘ it would be helpful ’ if counsel for the prosecution were to make a check list of essential directions and draw attention to any omissions before the retirement of the jury . |
| 10 | Not only are meanings not phenomenal objects ( in Kant 's sense ) ; they are not entities at all . |
| 11 | Not only are students asked to demonstrate their craft by selecting , preparing and presenting the best possible three course meal for four to a fixed budget , but equally high standards are demanded in the question paper stages of the competition . |
| 12 | Not only are problems becoming more global in nature — such as atmospheric pollution — but international collaboration can be a more effective use of national resources . |
| 13 | Not only are worm casts rich in plant nutrients , but are in a crumb form some ⅛ in. in diameter which can be very efficiently exploited by plant root hairs from all sides . |
| 14 | Not only are estimates of NAIRU notorious for their lack of robustness , they also have a disconcerting tendency to shadow the actual unemployment rate suspiciously closely . |
| 15 | Not only are aitches dropped , appalling vocals now reign virtually supreme in the realm of pronunciation . |
| 16 | Not only are victims denied immediate help , they are subsequently kept in the dark by the police and courts about what is going on . |
| 17 | Not only are victims , particularly of personal theft or burglary , usually reluctant to become entangled with the bureaucratic nightmare that can follow the reporting of a crime to the police , but it is extremely difficult to convict anyone who possesses either a good lawyer or ‘ influence ’ . |
| 18 | Not only are science teachers in short supply , however , but also industry is facing a shortage of skilled scientists and engineers . |
| 19 | Not only are men more likely to receive increased back-up support from professional services such as health visitors , home helps and nurses , they are also likely to receive more informal help from relatives , friends and neighbours . |
| 20 | Not only are numbers increasing every year but most students qualify in universities and polytechnics , whereas in other countries that have similar numbers entering higher education there is a much higher wastage rate . |
| 21 | There are many reasons for this ; not only are leather corals very attractive , but they are also relatively hardy , much more so than most other coral types , such as stony corals , gorgonians or such beautiful soft corals as cauliflower corals ( Dendronephtya spp ) . |
| 22 | At Leeds , for example , not only are fans separated in this way , but a wedge-shaped piece of terracing at the corner of the visiting fans ' terrace is designated a ‘ no-man's-land ’ , surrounded by high fencing , and kept empty . |
| 23 | Suffice to say that not only are Leeds a better side when he s in it , but his influence will rub off onto all the players at Leeds , young and old . |
| 24 | But if , throughout the secondary school , literature in the classroom consists chiefly of modern , chronologically organised novels , written in familiar language that is interpretable at a literal level , then not only are pupils being offered a narrowed range of literary experience , they are also being denied an important means of extending their own language and thinking . |
| 25 | Contrary to the creationist literature , not only are animals with " half a wing " common , so are animals with a quarter of a wing , three quarters of a wing , and so on . |
| 26 | Not only are expectations of family life changing , but since families also operate as groups or systems within a wider environment some families are more vulnerable to social change than others . |
| 27 | Not only are antisemites preferable to feminists , but , most crucially , they are battling against a ‘ powerful ’ minority . |
| 28 | Not only are astronomy and chemistry reducible to physics ; but also biology is — or would be if physicists put any effort into making it so : |
| 29 | Not only are frontier youth workers part of an enterprise which is global in extent . |
| 30 | In this upgraded version — 1.2 — not only are Typographica fonts not supplied , but they have been replaced by Adobe Type Manager 2. x and ATM fonts of the same style of the originals . |