Example sentences of "[vb base] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cite only a few . |
| 2 | We have as many lovely things here as on the Mountain of Butterflies but we lack only a prophet and the eyes and emotions to see them . |
| 3 | Frequently , the analytical courses are cut out in joint schemes , and the students gain only a superficial introduction to both subjects . |
| 4 | The poison develops a little time after the leaf has sprouted , so the monkeys can avoid the worst of it if they eat only the youngest leaves . |
| 5 | The main point to understand is that the diet is flexible , but you must : stick to 1,000 calories per day ( unless you have chosen to increase your calorie allowance ) eat only the foods allowable in the stage you are currently on . |
| 6 | Inserts , in the generally accepted sense of the word , change only the pictures , the original sound continuing over it unaffected . |
| 7 | A recent article in the Lancet states that a Dundee Medical School team headed by Prof. Peter Howie ( Obstetrics ) have found that babies who are breastfed for 13 weeks or longer suffer only a third of the stomach infections experienced by bottlefed babies , and have fewer respiratory infections . |
| 8 | Note that the target struck by the cauldron suffers a strength 5 hit , while remaining targets suffer only a strength 3 hit . |
| 9 | That is another way of saying he wants his team to win , because they remain only a point clear , although after tonight they will still have a match in hand . |
| 10 | By section 27(9) of the Act the ‘ qualification regulations ’ of an ‘ authorised body , ’ which the Advisory Committee has the duty to approve , mean only the regulations ( however they may be described ) as to the education and training which members of that body must receive in order to be entitled to any right of audience granted by it ; and in the same way ‘ rules of conduct , ’ which it has a duty to approve , mean only the rules ( however they may be described ) as to the conduct required of members of that body in exercising any such right of audience . |
| 11 | By section 27(9) of the Act the ‘ qualification regulations ’ of an ‘ authorised body , ’ which the Advisory Committee has the duty to approve , mean only the regulations ( however they may be described ) as to the education and training which members of that body must receive in order to be entitled to any right of audience granted by it ; and in the same way ‘ rules of conduct , ’ which it has a duty to approve , mean only the rules ( however they may be described ) as to the conduct required of members of that body in exercising any such right of audience . |
| 12 | City analysts expect it to pass its final dividend , or make only a token pay-out . |
| 13 | This would not be too great a bother if morels could be collected in the wild for a reasonable length of time each year , but the fruiting bodies of the morel make only a brief appearance , sometime between March and May . |
| 14 | The private sector service industries make only a small contribution while the public services make none . |
| 15 | The insect may be 50 yards away , and so make only a tiny image on my retina . |
| 16 | But opera , whether their texts are well-written in the conventional literary sense or not , have almost no value as plays , and their librettos make only a shadowy sense away from their music . |
| 17 | But when your father has been murdered the day you make only the fourth televised maximum break , when you win your first major title and receive a hero 's reception on returning to your native land , even the prospect of meeting Hendry is going to cause no more than a flutter of the eyelid . |
| 18 | " Or you sell only the herd and grow corn on the land and make tizwin , enough to keep you drunk for seven years . " |
| 19 | So most certificates distinguish only the clergy , as was required , and the gentry were bound to be noticed as landowners and the lords of many other men . |
| 20 | From her sample she recorded 1,964 separate job descriptions in the 1770s and 1780s , yet lists from the late seventeenth century designate only a few hundred . |
| 21 | Campra , whose expressed aim was to combine French musical expression with Italian liveliness , was perhaps copying the acknowledged pioneer of the French cantata , Jean-Baptiste Morin : four of the 12 works in Morin 's first two collections ( 1706,1707 ) introduce only a change of mode from air to air by way of contrast , and in the others the only secondary keys used in principal movements are the relative , IV and V. But as Morin was an otherwise obscure figure it is more likely that Campra was pursuing his own ideals , themselves anchored in Lullian tradition . |
| 22 | It is clear why ministers , who lose only a little and gain a great deal from the doctrine , should want to keep it going . |
| 23 | You supply only the finest , do n't you … ’ |
| 24 | Place only the fingertips on the shoulder blade . |
| 25 | The detailed changes to the boundary layer structure during this development are complicated , although they occupy only a small fraction of the total distance over which transition occurs . |
| 26 | Straightforward examples can be seen at Brampton in Norfolk , where the extensive ribbon developments are confined to the junction itself and the main roads radiating east , south and west , and at Braintree , where they occupy only the west and south-west approach roads at the expense of the staggered road junction itself ( fig. 6A and B ) . |
| 27 | My friend , you say only a merlan , I say give me your whiting and I will create a masterpiece — a soufflé de merlan à la Didier . ’ |
| 28 | First the unit must be washed ( the instructions say only the electrode but the cap is full of what is presumably crystals of the test solution used at the factory ) then calibrated using the buffer tablets supplied . |
| 29 | Prepare and cook only the amount of food you 'll eat in a single serving so that there are no tempting left-overs . |
| 30 | Replant only the ones with with healthy roots and strong fan of leaves . |