Example sentences of "[verb] only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the serial usage of Example 139 ( the same series in each voice ) easily avoids the occurrence of octaves , octaves are formed only too easily when we use different forms together , as on the second quaver of the last bar , where all voices sound D or E♭ . |
| 2 | Local government capital expenditure is ‘ cash limited ’ , but current expenditure is cash limited only as far as the overall total of the Rate Support Grant ( RSG ) 3 is concerned . |
| 3 | We need to go only as far as eqn ( 2.21 ) . |
| 4 | Although it was only ten miles direct , it would be fully half that again by the route planned ; and they would be able to go only very slowly , in the darkness . |
| 5 | He goes only slightly pink at the sight of her Lesbian Switchboard T-shirt , speaks enthusiastically of his congregation 's Social Action Committee and seminars on Issues of the Day . |
| 6 | Its problem is that , as mentioned before , it goes only half-way : system and materials development are fully funded , but most students must secure local sponsorship and funding . |
| 7 | Even in the new Latin America , it seems , the commitment to free trade goes only so far . |
| 8 | Holly had talked with the old man and realized only later that when he spoke all those who were within earshot had listened and tried to learn about him from his words . |
| 9 | Apart from these difficulties it soon became only too obvious that the drugs could be unexpectedly toxic . |
| 10 | Now the weaknesses in the American economy , so well hidden by the prosperity of the 1920s , became only too clear . |
| 11 | She always felt unnerved when she researched at the august Victoria and Albert Museum and became only too conscious of her lack of formal training . |
| 12 | Five minutes later , however , she became only too aware of other members of staff who were trickling into the social club as their shift ended and suddenly , mindful of the interpretation that had been put on her being with David Markham on the last occasion they had visited the club , she finished her drink and stood up . |
| 13 | Then , as she was about to replace the receiver , a deep male voice came from behind her — a voice she 'd heard only recently . |
| 14 | It was not a whistle that could have come from human lips , but a chilling scalpel shriek he had heard only once before in the Fifth Dominion , when , some two hundred years past , his then possessor , the Maestro Sartori , had conjured from the In Ovo a familiar which had made such a whistle . |
| 15 | Since they arrived he and his mother have heard only once from his father who 's a soldier in the Bosnian army . |
| 16 | That succeeded only partially in the setting , but the costumes were attractive . |
| 17 | At 6 he was dispatched to a school at Great Dunham kept by the rector , Richard Ransome , where he remained , enjoying only very brief holidays , until he went to Eton ; nor did he go home for all of his holidays . |
| 18 | The tendency to see only as far as the limit of particular function . |
| 19 | Since each inter-probe distance need be calculated only once the execution time is dependent primarily on the number of probes , not the number of clones . |
| 20 | Intel Corp , obliquely confirming nagging reports that Pentium chips will be in critically short supply at least until October , now says it will ship only about 100,000 of the chips by the end of the year , where only two months ago it was talking ‘ hundreds of thousands ’ of parts this year ; Intel now sees 10,000 Pentiums going out by the end of June , 40,000 in the third quarter , and some 50,000 in fourth . |
| 21 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 22 | Unfortunately these conditions also much reduced their rate of march and they got only as far as Polmood , for they were now in the high uplands of the infant Tweed and the going difficult at the best of times . |
| 23 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 24 | ‘ Binge ’ diary Week 1 Decided to give up vomiting ; binged three times 2–3 Noticed that when stressed by children she turned to food and binged 4–5 Binged only once each week 6–7 Returned home and observed how she wanted to please her parents 8–9 On holiday , eating three meals a day — discovered she did not put on weight . |
| 25 | They are consequently able to flow only very short distances before they solidify . |
| 26 | Dentine differs from enamel in that the inorganic part constitutes only about 70 per cent by volume . |
| 27 | Boys gain only very slightly more ‘ A ’ levels than girls , and the gap is still closing . |
| 28 | In the same year in Kenya it has been estimated that African citizens and government institutions owned only about 5 per cent of corporate assets . |
| 29 | He pressed on and on , resting only briefly on a rock outcrop before continuing . |
| 30 | Treaty does not preclude a nationality requirement of the type at issue in the main proceedings , because discrimination on grounds of nationality can arise only where , under the law of a member state , persons are treated differently on account of their nationality . |