Example sentences of "only [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only made sense to put tea back a bit . |
| 2 | This year 's FA Cup Final only made No 93 . |
| 3 | Jess could n't see except when the birds rose up an instant only to fall back , this time with Damocles mounted and digging in his spurs . |
| 4 | His thin elbows and shoulder blades hit the sides of the cart at frequent intervals so that he would wake suddenly , only to fall back exhausted into a chaotically dream-filled sleep . |
| 5 | I scoffed at such nonsense , and leapt up the beach , lanyard in hand , only to fall flat in the surf , as the waves turned sand from firm to quick . |
| 6 | She tried to make her voice heard above the general clamour and hurried forward , only to lose sight of her quarry in the crowd . |
| 7 | Many pilots plan on the basis that they have only to lose height from the final turn to the DH during the total inbound time . |
| 8 | Remember , we want you not only to lose weight but to feel really healthy with your body in good nutritional balance . |
| 9 | No smoking , no alcohol , only eating food that was good for you . ’ |
| 10 | A £1,000 talking computer stolen from an electronics firm in Milton Keynes , Bucks , only understands Japanese . |
| 11 | After about thirty years with a genuine French landlord who only sold beer in half-pints , among his other idiosyncrasies , the brewery bowed to public opinion and renamed the place the French Pub . |
| 12 | Arsenal ace opens his heart only to Mirror Sport |
| 13 | Like all other unusual accomplishments , it only nears perfection after hours of determined practice : but once the technique is acquired , the potential for a stunning showpiece is obvious . |
| 14 | Was the Council willing to embark on a major new undertaking in a field in which it had only limited experience , none of it in the validation of teacher education itself ? |
| 15 | But their ideas had only limited influence on the way games were played and understood by the mass of manual workers . |
| 16 | While similar region versus district confrontations elsewhere in Scotland are deliberately being kept low-key , particularly in Labour-dominated areas , there are signs of open warfare in Highland , where the political parties have only limited influence . |
| 17 | motorist admits to not seeing boy who came from opposite pavement but accepted that motorist had only limited opportunity for seeing him . |
| 18 | That Emilia thought her a mere child revealed how little she understood ; but then Louisa herself had only limited comprehension of what remained dark and unspoken in this woman who studied her , almost coldly , summoning resolve . |
| 19 | Last May , I wrote that if customers had only limited choice as to where to buy jewellery ‘ then it is every bit as exploitative if the quality is unnecessarily low than if the price is unnecessarily high ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ The county council has only limited insurance for its schools simply because of the enormous premiums which would be required to provide comprehensive cover , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Until the 1950s , the news in daily papers had only limited competition from radio and virtually none from TV . |
| 22 | The Chancellor may decide to encourage greater use of diesel : however , he has only limited scope for any price differentiation between DERV and petrol , for since December diesel has actually been 10 pence per gallon more expensive than unleaded petrol . |
| 23 | The twins point out that this conception of polysemy has only limited applicability , for it does not explain ambiguity caused by contextual factors . |
| 24 | But the brawl continued continued for several hours , because the police , who had only limited manpower , confined their role to merely stopping the trouble from spreading to other areas . |
| 25 | But , as in other areas of enforcement activity , the quantitative measures available in pollution control have only limited utility since , like crime rates , statistics of ‘ pollution ’ and ‘ compliance ’ reflect the behaviour of enforcement agents rather than some ‘ objective ’ measurement of the phenomena themselves ( Cicourel , 1968 ) . |
| 26 | This meant that actions to reduce emissions of sulphur dioxide within Brussels had only limited success in reducing smog levels and the city simply had to wait until the extensive smog bank drifted away or began to be dispersed . |
| 27 | In some cases , the majority of these precursor pollutants come from distant urban-industrial areas and consequently local emission reduction measures have only limited success in reducing smog levels . |
| 28 | The problem is that the company has only limited ISDN capacity at the moment because of the way that it is implemented at telephone exchanges . |
| 29 | Another problem , and one discussed at length by Wittgenstein in BB and PI , is that definitions of the lexicographical sort have only limited relevance . |
| 30 | Add to this the facts that each chief executive has only limited authority over many of his staff and that much of the finance of this complex body is handled by a separate company accountable to Parliament , and it might well be enough to make Lord Hanson heave or Tiny Rowland throw in the towel . |