Example sentences of "and [adv] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the conclusion of their day the Caddie Master Tom Gould , and a John Holton played a three-hole match , presumably on the 1st , 2nd and 18th holes and presumably only for fun , their scores being 38 and 39 , quoted as 16–7–15 and 9–12–18 . |
| 2 | If more shakes are needed then a gradual increase in potency occurs until a saturation point arrives and presumably only intensification takes place . |
| 3 | A score of under 40 would indicate a very high investment risk , and so only in unusual circumstances would investment be worthwhile . |
| 4 | It occurred during Lebanon 's glorious recent history and so only in old magazines or in scratched newsreel films can one sense the phantoms that were even then being made manifest in the streets of Beirut . |
| 5 | Alternatively , they may have been mistreated , and so only respond to that particular stimulus . |
| 6 | when each state is complex , and so only one state can be remembered at a time . |
| 7 | I love this club and so only wish to offer encouragement . |
| 8 | The whole-tone , or hexatonic , scale comprises only tones and no semitones , and so only two different scales are possible ( Example 80 ) : As the mixing of these two scales would introduce semitones and produce an effect of chromaticism , usually , in order to create the particular mood of whole-tone music , only one is used at a time . |
| 9 | OK , give it ten years and perhaps only 20 per cent will be producing what 60 per cent or 70 per cent were twenty-five years ago . |
| 10 | The party is unlikely to win even one of the 13 seats from Punjab , and perhaps only three or four of Assam 's 14 seats . |
| 11 | Fewer people had receivers : perhaps one in twenty or twenty-five households in Ajdabiya , and perhaps only one in a hundred in Kufra . |
| 12 | He was probably only at the mill for a brief period , and perhaps only occupied part of it . |
| 13 | In my teens I had lived precariously on the lip of first class rugby by virtue of knowing every trick in the canon , evil and otherwise , by being a bad bad loser , but chiefly and perhaps only because I was very nippy off the mark . |
| 14 | Only when this phase has been completed , and perhaps only for a relatively brief period at the height of a crisis , can a second phase of overt conflict between proletarians and capitalists become manifest ( Przeworski , 1977 ) . |
| 15 | Then , and perhaps only then , the difficulty of identifying speech acts becomes apparent . |
| 16 | And perhaps only at certain times of the year , especially in agricultural communities . |
| 17 | If we are reduced to a handful of Scottish Back Benchers and perhaps only a couple of Opposition Scottish Back Benchers on the Standing Committee , that will be deeply resented . |
| 18 | It may be that only core units are tested and perhaps only one or two of those . |
| 19 | For it is becoming increasingly clear that a semantic theory alone can give us only a proportion , and perhaps only a small if essential proportion , of a general account of language understanding . |
| 20 | The first , and apparently only casualty was the little corn mill at Dowdeswell , immediately deprived of its water supply . |
| 21 | She did n't seem surprised to see him sitting there still in his cloak and obviously only just returned from Mass , and he knew at once that she had been told about the murders . |
| 22 | There is a much smaller choice of sizes if you want a lean-to garage , and generally only single garages are available , on the very reasonable grounds that if you have space for a double garage you have room for a detached one ! |
| 23 | I , she thought disconsolately , offer people packet biscuits if I 've remembered to buy any and generally only have paper napkins . |
| 24 | It was mind-numbingly potent and generally only used by the Sinisters to calm hysterics . |
| 25 | ‘ He does n't consider his captions a sacrosanct collection of frozen moments in time , ’ Ms Calder adds , ‘ and anyway only really changes the ones that have a dated feel about them . |
| 26 | And not only are the major brewers at fault . |
| 27 | My own ‘ anthropological history ’ in this liminoid phase became extended over eight years , until 1974 , and not only gave me time to reflect on many of the controls we were required to impose , but also to consider the nature of the social harm these unworldly folk devils and ‘ drug fiends ’ were actually causing ; for established society has never really known how to handle the unworldly easily . |
| 28 | ‘ This Act will enslave you , ’ he heard Cameron saying , ‘ and not only the young men among you but every family with a son who is in his prime . |
| 29 | And not only rabbis , one might add , but priests and nuns , monks , ministers and bishops ! |
| 30 | Both the water-based gloss and satin paints come in pure brilliant white and not only start whiter , but stay whiter than other traditional solvent-based paints . |