Example sentences of "only [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frances not only developed a love for foreign food but an obsession for flying : |
| 2 | ‘ They 've not only developed a great understanding on the pitch . |
| 3 | Reflecting the connection between good teaching and its management and good learning , institutional statements about the principles of in-service work include , as an example , " The ultimate aim of all in-service education for teachers is the improvement of pupil/student learning through the development of teachers as reflective , autonomous professionals who have not only developed a range of skills but also a broad knowledge of understanding of subject content and of the conceptual framework of teaching and learning . " |
| 4 | For the incident has not only highlighted the risks of transporting oil by tanker past sensitive environments , but also brought the wider issue of UK oil consumption and energy policy to the fore once again . |
| 5 | Today , we have not only halted the upward trend but have in fact reversed it , so that our costs are declining in real terms . |
| 6 | Notice they are not only given a reason for observing , which , of course , gives their spectator role a frame through which to watch , but there is also a hint of some responsibility they might have to carry — a necessary engagement is then ensured . |
| 7 | I 've only given a hint of what you 'll get as a Hilton Club member . |
| 8 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 9 | Although his jarred shoulder is improving , and he has been named in the side for Saturday , he is still only given a 50–50 chance of playing . |
| 10 | New technology and more international competition will eventually create more jobs than they destroy , as they have for the past two centuries , if they are only given a chance to work . |
| 11 | The British complained when they were only given a quarter of new EC fishing quotas despite providing sixty per cent of the fishing grounds . |
| 12 | Blacker Miller , still then Foreign Minister [ see above ] , was invited to address the meeting formally ( whereas San Román was only given a private hearing ) , and described the outcome as " adequate " . |
| 13 | But I was dreading the French paper to which I had only given the dregs of my time as I had had so much else on my plate . |
| 14 | But dentists in the NorthEast said the delay had only given the profession a short breathing space . |
| 15 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 16 | We have only examined the legal issues from a narrow perspective ( Walden 1993 ; Gränström 1993 ) , they could be the focus of a single seminar alone ( see Postscript , 317 ) . |
| 17 | We should remember that it was ill the employers " interests to claim that it was not worth providing women with a long training because they would waste it by leaving early ; while it was in the trade union 's interest to claim that women were incompetent because they had only received a short training . |
| 18 | ICI claimed this was not harmful to residents in the area and they had only received a small number of complaints from people who had inhaled the gas . |
| 19 | I also had to wear new pink sandals that I had only received the morning of the wedding . |
| 20 | Much more important than the Duchy was the royal household , whose financial institutions , the Chamber and the Wardrobe , not only consumed a large part of the Crown 's income but also assisted , from time to time , in national government . |
| 21 | But it is also noticeable that Mackenzie wrote a much less dramatized description of his grandmother , ‘ a weird old lady ’ with penetrating eyes and a low voice ’ , who had only fallen a little less severely than her ex-husband , living as landlady in a poor alley with ‘ an old servant companion ’ in a house furnished with antiques . |
| 22 | ‘ You say we have as yet only heard the half — and the worse half of all that is to be told ? |
| 23 | Valerie Stevens had been in the house to get more coffee and as she stepped through the patio doors she stood for a moment staring at Rachel in horror , having only heard the last part of the conversation . |
| 24 | Hampshire County Council 's planning department , together with those of Fareham and Eastleigh Councils , have only undertaken the review of the Hamble Valley Plan because pressure was put on them to do so by the Hamble River Boatyard and Marine Operator 's Association . |
| 25 | But irrespective of whether there was one general factor or two , it was clear that these general factors only explained a part of the variation in images of parties and leaders . |
| 26 | In vain the poor jackal howled and shrieked to the tiger to stop , but the noise behind him only frightened the coward more . |
| 27 | The mention of Seville had only aroused a small murmur of protest in her left ventricle , and that was an improvement on a few months back when open heart surgery had seemed the only cure for her suffering . |
| 28 | This has not only exposed the underlying differences between Likud and Labour which the initiative papered over . |
| 29 | Purity campaigns not only registered a shift in modalities of control , but a change in the personnel responsible for sexual regulation and in the sites from which power was exercised . |
| 30 | N.B. : We have only listed a few Zionist atrocities as to list them all , as with the crimes of the IRA , would fill a book or two . |