Example sentences of "had [vb pp] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the local black community were enraged by reports that the driver of the vehicle , Yoseph Lisef , 22 , who had sustained only minor injuries , was quickly taken away from the scene of the accident by a private Jewish ambulance service , whilst the more seriously injured children were left to wait for attention from a city ambulance crew . |
| 2 | Caro 's widowed mother had remarried only in recent years and her new husband already had four children , all grown up and living away from home . |
| 3 | These pioneer clinics , which numbered only sixteen even by 1930 , had treated only 21,000 women by that time . |
| 4 | Becker 's case was notable because he was captured by the widely-circulated photographs , but he argued that he had intended only to fire a warning shot . |
| 5 | Net capital disbursements by the World Bank had totalled only $2,100 million , compared with $5,700 million in 1990 . |
| 6 | He said that permitted grain imports since March had totalled only 100,000 tonnes , half the normal monthly grain requirements , and " only 15 per cent of our people can afford to buy food on the free market " . |
| 7 | Of 77 trips aboard specially commandeered aircraft in the past two years , Sununu had designated only four as unofficial . |
| 8 | The form of mills had developed only slowly since the Middle Ages , but by the middle of the eighteenth century the technology of wind and water power was being investigated scientifically and there was competition for mill sites because of enlarging industrial needs . |
| 9 | Beneath the respectable front of many local organisations there had developed only too frequently , as the men of the north-east had earlier predicted , a form of legalised crimping operated between Board of Trade staff at Mercantile Marine Offices and boarding house keepers who were only too happy to supply seamen at a profit to themselves . |
| 10 | According to Blackwell , morality involved the evolution of self-consciousness which had developed only in the human species . |
| 11 | Before CD ‘ thought of Mr Pickwick ’ and wrote the first number , he had already gained for himself more freedom in the conduct of his story than Seymour and his publishers had originally intended , but the sudden death of Seymour when he had completed only 3 of the 4 illustrations for No. ii , and his replacement by the young artist Hablot K. Browne ( who soon adopted the signature ‘ Phiz ’ to parallel CD 's ‘ Boz ’ ) , contributed to the dominance of text over illustrations : from No. iii on the plates were reduced to 2 per number and the pages of text increased from 26 to 32 . |
| 12 | By the time the season started I had completed only around 800kms of testing while most of the other top guys had done as much as 6000km . |
| 13 | Currently he was rereading Tace 's autobiography of which the author had completed only Book One , dying in the midst of describing his thirtieth year . |
| 14 | The replacement of Longland , who had completed only five months of his two-year posting , followed several weeks of tension between troops of 3 Brigade and the residents of Coalisland in Co . |
| 15 | The design was complicated , with a serpentine pattern of dark blue and white with touches of black , and whoever was knitting it had completed only a few inches of ribbed welt . |
| 16 | The Libyan airline had flown only domestic flights since aviation sanctions were imposed in April [ see p. 38883 ] . |
| 17 | It was not a whistle that could have come from human lips , but a chilling scalpel shriek he had heard only once before in the Fifth Dominion , when , some two hundred years past , his then possessor , the Maestro Sartori , had conjured from the In Ovo a familiar which had made such a whistle . |
| 18 | At that time adoption with contact had received only scant attention in the social work literature and the so called ‘ clean break ’ approach was still in its supremacy . |
| 19 | Numbers were small ; but a final case study approach revealed that for people who lived alone , had no informal carer who could manage all necessary care ; and had a high level of cognitive impairment , the Home Support Project was likely to prolong home care beyond that of those who had received only the usual services . |
| 20 | Thus far , Kirov had received only a vague brief about his current project . |
| 21 | Rico Gopul , a staff nurse in the villa at the time of the alleged incidents , told the tribunal he had been accused of the same offences as Mr Reid but had received only a written warning . |
| 22 | The Press Complaints Commission had received only one complaint by last night . |
| 23 | He had made official representations to many governments , but had received only two replies . |
| 24 | Millions of people throughout the country lived in buildings which were either due for demolition because they were unsafe , or had received only emergency repairs . |
| 25 | The second reason was that the principle had received only limited application during the war . |
| 26 | On April 25 the UNHCR said that it had received only $43,000,000 of the $238,500,000 it had requested as aid for Kurdish refugees . |
| 27 | This again was impossible to calculate for those theses which had received only one citation . |
| 28 | Mr Cooney said the reason Northern Ireland had received only £1.04bn European funding for the next seven years , while the Republic got £7.8bn , was because the province did not have its own negotiators in Brussels . |
| 29 | In Thornett & fehr v. Beers ( 1919 K.B. ) the buyers of some barrels of glue had examined only the outside . |
| 30 | In this way there was in human history a cumulative build up of knowledge and success in adaptation to the environment which made human beings very quick to adapt to new problems — much more easily and quickly than if they had depended only on genetic transmission . |