The phrase "encompass not only" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to emphasize that something includes not just one thing, but also other things. Example: Our company's values encompass not only honesty and integrity, but also innovation and collaboration.
Can this relationship encompass not only a shift in roles, but a changed sense of self?
The talks encompass not only the prisoner exchange but also broader issues aimed at bringing the war to an end.
Derived from the Latin expression res publica ("the public thing"), the category of republic could encompass not only democratic states but also oligarchies, aristocracies, and monarchies.
Ms. Friedman's compositions encompass not only modern settings of traditional Hebrew liturgy but also songs for which she wrote original English lyrics.
On any Friday night at Red Rooster, the crowd is likely to encompass not only elements of New York's "gorgeous mosaic" but also David Dinkins, the former mayor who coined the phrase.
At the end of his life, the supposed high priest of the Teutonic symphony backed away from grandiose affirmations; like any struggling soul, he suffered fear and doubt, and in the Ninth he managed to encompass not only a huge musical architecture but also an agonized interior world.
The commission's office of compliance, inspections and investigations will expand its scrutiny of analysts to encompass not only whether research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own stocks they write about or when they are paid by a firm's investment banking arm for their work.
If it wasn't enough to get creeped out hearing grown men express envy of the breast-feeding 4-year-old boy latched onto his attractive mother, the question posed on the cover seemed to encompass not only the article's attachment parenting debate, but also the self-doubt that all mothers perpetually face.
Since the end of the Cold War, the council has extended the definition of a threat to or a breach of international peace and security to encompass not only international conflicts but also internal conflicts (e.g., in Yugoslavia, Somalia, Liberia, and Rwanda) and even the overthrow of a democratic government and subsequent upheavals and refugee movements (e.g., in Haiti).
To achieve cross-functional alignment, the toolset has to encompass not only software tools and database architectures but also project workflow aspects.
