Example sentences of "[noun sg] only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good exam technique only comes with practice . |
| 2 | A second application of this technique only leads back to the original solution , apart from an arbitrary complex constant . |
| 3 | By and large , the retina only sends messages to the brain when the image on it changes . |
| 4 | Packages like Omicron 's XIS and Multisoft Premier Plus offer multicurrency facilities in all of their accounting and distribution ledgers , whereas the Sage Sovereign general ledger only works in the user 's chosen base currency , although its sales and purchase ledgers are multicurrency . |
| 5 | The hope only emerges as the narrative proceeds . |
| 6 | Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting . |
| 7 | The minister 's entourage and assembled media swept into the narrow office building only to grind to a halt on the stairs while he and Mr Fallon shut themselves off for a brief chat . |
| 8 | The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 . |
| 9 | Under the new regime , the Ministry of Agriculture only tests animals when they get to the farm , if they 're told about it . |
| 10 | Although urban migration accelerated , it acted as a very inadequate safety valve : between 1880 and 1913 the proportion of the labour force working in agriculture only dropped from 74 to 72 per cent . |
| 11 | But Prince only gets £5 million per album if he sells 5 million copies — or a new fee is agreed . |
| 12 | However , since the grant only purchased a few hundred books , these tended to " disappear once distributed around the shelves . |
| 13 | Mr Ridley said that of the five charges of maladministration the Ombudsman only attached ‘ great significance ’ to one which was a new point about the Jersey partnership . |
| 14 | Its domination of the final text only means that it is Raskolnikov 's favourite way of rationalizing his malaise . |
| 15 | DEC 's recent Windows-on-Alpha agreement with Microsoft Corp only drove the nail further into ACE 's OSF coffin . |
| 16 | In this case the user only needs to specify the bucket size required from the alternatives provided , as the formatting and addressing have already been carried out by the manufacturer . |
| 17 | If the user only wishes to produce text on the system and is prepared to restrict this to a few styles and sizes then such a device is perfectly adequate . |
| 18 | If the user only wishes to check the consistency of a predetermined set of contigs then a program contigorder may be used instead . |
| 19 | When the chip is incorporated into a smart card and inserted into a mock up cash machine , the user only has to speak into a microphone to be recognized and given the cash . |
| 20 | Arsenal ace opens his heart only to Mirror Sport |
| 21 | But the Lord has made it easier for you by giving us the lesson taught so simply and sublimely by our parents — the joy of love , that is of understanding and being understood , of giving and receiving , of sacrificing oneself to be recreated , of pouring out the treasures of one 's own heart only to find them multiplied endlessly . |
| 22 | The protest floated at the back of her numbed mind : how could she have the heart to deal such a blow only to satisfy her own thirst for scandal ? |
| 23 | The difficulty only arises when there is communication . |
| 24 | Where was that traditional British reserve only abandoned for cloying camaraderie under the influence of injuriously vast quantities of alcohol ? |
| 25 | The Spring Budget only decides on taxes how to pay for the spending . |
| 26 | In Manchester , Glasgow , and Newcastle similar patterns of change occurred ; elsewhere decentralization only became absolute in the 1960s , for example in Birmingham , Sheffield , Leeds , and Nottingham , Smaller cities , such as Peterborough , Ipswich , and Bedford were centralizing , absolutely and relatively , during the 1950s , but then entered a phase of relative decentralization . |
| 27 | Gazzer only had to stand in the middle of the towpath and wait as the man approached him . |
| 28 | Raymond Cusick had hoped for six Daleks from his budget but in the end the money only ran to affording four . |
| 29 | They complained that they could not get loans from LEDU and if they did , the money only came after long delays . |
| 30 | ‘ Many farmers think it saves money only to treat the best cows in the herd — those which have had clinical mastitis or those with a known high cell-count . |