Example sentences of "who [not/n't] only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was popularly supposed to be a man who not only told the truth , but who could not tell a lie , and the senator 's aides and publicists were not unhappy to promulgate that echo of a previous President 's virtues . |
| 2 | Certainly , when I watched her in the St Trinian 's films , I knew I was watching someone who not only knew all of the people I knew , but could do a wicked job of ‘ taking them off ’ ! |
| 3 | She guessed he found it intriguing to be able to talk about his consuming interest in the sport with a girl who not only knew what he was talking about , but could actually offer opinions that were interesting . |
| 4 | Christabel Pankhurst reasoned that the state was composed of men who not only denied women the vote but also tacitly condoned male immorality and sexual violence . |
| 5 | Brigadier and Mrs. Carter lived in a large house in Brown Street — he was fat , very pompous with a waxed moustache , having exceptionally long spikes ; Major Forbes from Fowlers Hill , who not only looked like but also dressed like King George V — whether by accident or design I do n't know , Mrs. Bowyer , the widow of an Australian Bishop who lived in Fowlers Road was very big and wore outsize hats which accentuated her size and finally the Headmaster , Mr. E.J. Russ . |
| 6 | But Damon , who not only drove brilliantly but survived a late collision with Gerhard Berger 's Ferrari , showed true sportsmanship in warmly applauding the great Brazilian . |
| 7 | Also to the drivers , who not only drove with such care that the passengers were n't inconvenienced in any way , but also doubled as bike handlers to get the bikes on and off the trailer , inevitably a dirty job . |
| 8 | Some of them are capable and sensible drivers , but as the records show there are those who not only put their own lives at risk , but that of others as well . |
| 9 | Second , it is God himself who not only speaks but also hears that ‘ No ’ in the person of the one man who does not deserve to hear it , the righteous one who stands in the place of the unrighteous . |
| 10 | The Country was suspicious of an executive headed by a King who not only lacked an hereditary title , but who was also Dutch , employed Dutch favourites ( notably William Bentinck , who became the Earl of Portland ) , and who was a Calvinist . |
| 11 | The climax to this ludicrous campaign from the Dark Ages came in 1953 with the tour of Europe by McCarthy 's two young assistants , Mr Cohn and Mr Schine , who not only sounded like a bad vaudeville act but performed like one . |
| 12 | Parliament must be well aware of the great burden that is imposed on senior ministers , who not only take charge of their departments but also speak for them in Parliament , attend meetings of the Cabinet and its committees , and see to their constituency affairs if they are members of the House of Commons . |
| 13 | In the by-elections , I rapidly became disillusioned by the men who not only ended up taking credit for the Group 's existence but who also displayed a total lack of understanding about issues affecting Asian women in Britain . |
| 14 | More commonly , however , the agent for the owner or head charterer is a specialized ship 's agent dedicated to service only specified owners or head charterers , who not only books chartered space but also provides port services for the chartered vessel . |
| 15 | Across the road in Parliament in the late sixties , as Wilson , Castle and Crossman wore themselves out in the cause , as they saw it , of a more modern and socially just Britain , there sat in the Leader of the Opposition 's office a man who not only shared the Jenkins view of workload but was planning exactly what he would do about it if the electorate gave him his chance . |
| 16 | ‘ Winter in Majorca is a one-man show portraying the composer Frederick Chopin , written and performed by Michael Lunts , who not only plays Chopin the man but also , quite superbly , plays Chopin 's music ! ’ |
| 17 | That might be the motto of the Scottish Health Education Group who not only advertise on television but sponsor a radio soap opera , to say nothing of the Scottish football team . |
| 18 | Protestant opposition to integrated schooling is sometimes heard in the North , particularly from the fundamentalist camp , who not only fear catholic infiltration of state schools but are opposed to anything other than Bible protestantism in religious education . |
| 19 | They are the nursing staff , who not only comfort but also empty the bed pans , wash bed sores , clean up the vomiting , often for an NHS wage which would n't keep Her Royal Highness in French blue mascara . |
| 20 | She was going to speak about a person , who not only walked this earth two thousand years ago , but walked beside his followers in the twentieth century . |
| 21 | The second form of associative learning , operant conditioning , was developed by the contemporary American psychologist , Skinner , who not only conducted laboratory experiments with animals , but , unlike most other theorists , also developed from his findings teaching procedures for use with people , especially programmed learning and teaching machines . |
| 22 | Perhaps only the Transylvanian Valentin Bakfark ( Greff ) ( 1507–76 ) , lutenist at the Polish court , who not only made the customary transcriptions but composed ten extended fantasias packed with imitative polyphony , can be ranked with Francisco de Milano , Gintzler , and the Spaniards . |
| 23 | There was certainly nothing oppressed about Marjorie , who not only slept around the Midlands circuit , but had a controlling interest in his finances . |
| 24 | However , even if the L.G.U. was left wondering if it should n't have kept the public better informed , it must have been greatly heartened by the number of spectators who not only came to this out-of-the-way championship but made it abundantly clear that they were greatly taken with the high standard of play . |
| 25 | A more accurate guide as to who went to the movies was given in 1928 by Pare Lorentz , who rather patronizingly suggested that whereas most people went occasionally , the regulars consisted of ‘ an army of clerks ’ who not only went but took it ‘ seriously ’ . |
| 26 | They make nonsense of the aspirations of developing countries , who not only lack the funds available to some American schools in the 1960s but who lack the meagre finances spared to education in Britain in her declining 19705 . |
| 27 | There is evidence to suggest that the most successful projects are pioneered by ‘ champions ’ , who not only sponsor the project proposal in the first place but manage the implementation phase and often the early stages of fully-fledged operation . |
| 28 | Now , for the first time , I was surrounded by people who not only had cancer , but unlike those in hospital , knew that they had it . |
| 29 | In the late nineteenth century , the pastime of rambling through open countryside had been restricted to those who not only had time at their disposal but also the financial capability to travel into rural areas . |
| 30 | In many parts of the Asian elephants ' range the slaughter began with the coming of colonial man , who not only shot for sport but also cleared the forest for rubber and other crops and naturally did not want elephants to undo his good work . |