Example sentences of "were not only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not only evidence of disagreement amongst abolitionists but perceived by contemporaries to have different religious and political characteristics . |
| 2 | It seems to me that these dreams were not only manifestations of hunger , but that they also evinced a desire to be normal and part of the natural world . |
| 3 | Jacques 's flute method , compositions and instrument were not only characteristic of the early Baroque flute but elegantly expressed its aesthetic virtually to perfection . |
| 4 | The CSO 's new director , Bill McLennan , said the changes were not only part of general tidying up operation to standardise distribution but also to prevent leaks . |
| 5 | It can further be argued that the principal objects , or targets , of the new legislation were not only women , but also children . |
| 6 | These were not only Britons and Germans , but also Belgians , French , Italians , Swiss ; they were diplomats and political persons of high rank ; distinguished clergymen ; retired military gentlemen ; writers and thinkers . |
| 7 | In the 1980s there were not only changes in product demand and in imports and exports , but large-scale changes in investment and in the occupational structure . |
| 8 | Invitees were not only bishops , but heads of monastic orders , theologians representing the academic magisterium , even lay people . |
| 9 | From the dress of both the man and the woman she realised immediately that they were not only strangers , but class . |
| 10 | Slowly it began to dawn on school board trustees and education bureaucrats that immigrants were not only voters , they were also tax payers . |
| 11 | The middlemen who organized supplies of these crops for European traders were not only accumulators of capital but also invested in new opportunities , such as that created by the demand for cocoa in the 1890s . |
| 12 | So the circuitous route to the new diuretics had a final twist : the drugs were not only diuretics but antihypertensives as well . |
| 13 | Here were not only class tensions and antagonisms but also the yearning — ‘ that united wail ’ — for a different form of social relations which would link all women . |
| 14 | Lindsey argued that the tax cuts were not only incentive creating but they also increased the cost of tax avoidance . |
| 15 | Anyway , it were n't only money . |