Example sentences of "but have also [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The modern practice of flailing the remaining hedges with crude machinery has not only destroyed the possibility of such views , but has also led to a considerable reduction of bird and animal life The landscape is much poorer both visually and in content than it was thirty years ago .
2 This has traditionally given lower role status to those who work in the field , but has also made their language learning goal an educational and care one .
3 The real worries about Germany may come after the 1990s , when Germany is not only whole , free and rich , but has also begun to sense its real power .
4 HCIMA jointly awards the Level IV NVQ but has also pledged its support for the qualifications at Levels I-III .
5 The socially constructed relationship between age , gender and the labour market has not only been the cause of poverty in old age , but has also formed the basis for the spread of a more general dependency among older people and age discrimination in many aspects of public policy and social attitudes ( Walker , 1990 ) .
6 He has encouraged them to obtain relevant academic or professional qualifications , but has also insisted that they ‘ work their way up ’ through the departments in the traditional style .
7 He was doubtless selected because he not only commands a vast classical repertoire , essential for one of the world 's great orchestras , but has also worked hard to popularise modern music .
8 More recent research has not only failed to support this view , but has also laid open the possibility that simplified input may not be particularly useful .
9 For Daria Davidova , 13 , coming to England has not only helped her physical health — her headaches have stopped and she feels more energetic — but has also provided emotional relief .
10 It has possibly become the dominant issue in several state races but has also produced a more compromising approach to the abortion issue .
11 Katy has not only learned to stay away from her father but has also learned to play by herself .
12 The fact that no powerfully theoretical recreation geography has emerged , however , should not be seen as a defeat for the subject , for the empirical work that has been produced has not only been very useful in its own right , but has also shown a significant mismatch between leisure aspirations and recreational resources .
13 Charlton recalls Aston Villa 's Paul McGrath but has also opted for Middlesbrough 's Alan Kernaghan , who wins only his fifth cap .
14 Throughout the 1980s , Sudan has suffered not only from the disruption caused by its own civil conflict but has also experienced influxes of refugees from surrounding countries — Uganda , Ethiopia and Chad — driven by drought and war .
15 She has not only suffered the anguish of over a quarter of a century of separation from her husband , but has also experienced unending persecution at the hands of the regime , such as banishment , Imprisonment , torture and sustained harassment over a period of more than two decades .
16 To have made one such contribution to mankind would have been remarkable , but to have also contributed greatly to the early understanding of electricity , is outstanding .
17 The basic framework of that popular culture was fairly obvious for urban workers not only lived close together in distinctive communities but had also begun to pick up the rudiments of an education and they had both savings and time to spare .
18 She had called it ‘ Death in the Buildings ’ , and had based it not only on the tragedy she had witnessed , but had also written of the temptation for young girls to make money by selling themselves than by working long hours for poor pay , and had followed that by writing of women 's disabilities in a world where care in childbirth was minimal , and how only the kindness of humane doctors made it possible for them to have any skilled treatment at all .
19 Over the few weeks he had been in Mandru 's house , Lucien had acknowledged Jeopardy 's beauty and talent , but had also despised him .
20 Other than for Tutorial Classes , the WEA as a Responsible Body had not only traditionally provided the organisation for student demand but had also appointed its own tutors and approved syllabuses for courses within its Chapter III provision .
21 I went totally mad because there was an officer there that I knew — an officer that had picked me up and everything — he had arrested me before , but had also done business with me .
22 He had obeyed the Father in all things and would not only have to die but had also to become sin for the sake of the captives .
23 The wind screeched in his ears , making consecutive thought almost impossible so that not only did he have to struggle in desperate conflict with the conditions but had also to fight to hold to his concentration .
24 ( Iran had dissented from the final OPEC agreement in September on grounds that it did not impose strict enough controls on output — see p. 39120 — but had also demanded a larger proportional share for itself .
25 These tendencies had gone furthest in industry , but had also changed Europe 's agriculture very deeply .
26 Looking for lines of descent with modification had not merely led to finding interesting fossils , but had also produced better understanding of how existing species fit together .
27 Her exclusion from Italy was less important , but had also tidied up a dangling thread of history .
28 Noting that Japanese businesses were losing ground to their US rivals , Li Peng commented that sanctions had brought " some difficulties " to China but had also harmed those who had imposed them .
29 Or he could follow the Germans , who have duly provided him with an excuse for higher base rates at next week 's party conference — but have also made it abundantly clear that the Bundesbank is the dominant monetary authority in Europe , and our much-vaunted independence is so much poppy-cock .
30 A result of our own R&D , these have not only enabled us to increase margins but have also raised our market share in Europe and the USA .
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