Example sentences of "[verb] [det] only [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin .
2 It is hereby declared for the avoidance of doubt that any Member to whom Shares are offered in accordance with this Article shall be at liberty to accept some only of the Shares so offered .
3 It is hereby declared for the avoidance of doubt that any Member to whom Shares are offered in accordance with this Article shall be at liberty to accept some only of the Shares so offered .
4 Weber admits that a common market situation may provide a basis for collective class action but he sees this only as a possibility .
5 I state this only as a general and not as an invariable premise because of the possibility of cases in which the court would not authorise treatment of a distressing nature which offered only a small hope of preserving life .
6 As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past .
7 Ecologists studied the natural environment , but often saw this only as a means of helping the human race to manage its interference more effectively .
8 One owner found that his cat did this only on the floor of a new extension he had built on to the side of his house .
9 For Edward , the solution was to hold Aquitaine in full sovereignty ; but the French would concede this only in the face of overwhelming defeat , and no settlement based on such a concession could endure .
10 Thus , both before and after amendment the matters of complaint in Schedule 12 embraced some only of the services a society was authorised to provide and omitted both surveys and valuations of land and land services .
11 She knows this only after the event .
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