Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] only [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By Luke 's own admission he saw her as shallow , someone interested only in a good time and a string of boyfriends . |
| 2 | THE grandfather continues : ‘ I think only in the short term . |
| 3 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 4 | In the United States work is being done on a vaccine which consists only of the outer covering of the virus particle and so avoids the dangers of using the virus 's nucleic acid core . |
| 5 | Thus , rules restricting disclosure made under s 48(2) ( g ) and ( h ) might be said to authorise rules which operate only in a regulatory context . |
| 6 | When she wore the collar , she ate only with the utmost difficulty . |
| 7 | But she replied only with a slight inclination , and then turned for Conchis to take off her wrap , which he placed over the back of his own chair . |
| 8 | George I had tried , but failed , to end the pernicious practice of the purchase of commissions , which encouraged officers to recoup what they had spent by making what profit they could on clothing and feeding their men or through claiming the pay for ghost-like soldiers who existed only on the nominal rolls . |
| 9 | An employee who qualifies only for the lower rate of SMP is entitled to it throughout the Maternity Pay Period of up to 18 weeks . |
| 10 | She appeared only as a moving wave of worker frenzy , a boiling peristaltic ball of ants with linked arms . |
| 11 | If we concentrate only on the mythological representations and personifications of evil , we too easily relegate the Devil to our private worlds of personal torments and individual temptations . |
| 12 | If one looks only at the outer signs , one may see a cantankerous , dotty old person , but in the soul something very different may be perceived . |
| 13 | In ordinary affairs , for which we aspire only to the best choice on the available information , the only assurance we need is that each veering of spontaneous reaction with expanding awareness is objectively a change for the better . |
| 14 | At the summit cairn on Shunner Fell , we paused only for a few seconds to look towards Swaledale and back towards Mallerstang before moving on . |
| 15 | Many people will not realise that there is a property element built in and that they qualify only for the 25 per cent . |
| 16 | They arose only in the short uneasy period passed between land and water . |
| 17 | The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group . |
| 18 | Or since these desirable states can be put into words , do they belong only to the left hemisphere ? . |
| 19 | It is at the larva stage of their development when boring and feeding of the grubs takes place that the damage is caused because the adult beetles do not eat and they live only for a short time . |
| 20 | Sorry , I run a health spa in Scotland and I see an awful lot of women who obviously come in for some slight improvement but quite frankly it is the stress factor that shows in the face that does n't make them quite so beautiful because their personalities comes across for when their stressed it shows in their face and I notice when they leave only after a few days the stress has gone and their personality shines through and their far more beautiful . |
| 21 | This function they performed only in a limited and highly conservative way ; but there was hardly any other institution in France which could perform it at all . |
| 22 | The pronounced physical differences between them result only from the contrasted ways in which they are erupted . |
| 23 | An energy policy was , however , not surprisingly not quickly agreed ; it passed only after a long and bitter struggle that extended through most of Carter 's term of office and the package of measures finally agreed was inevitably different and weaker than the one the White House had originally requested . |
| 24 | One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago . |
| 25 | Below the rear central lamp , which shone into the interior , is the curved transverse tambour ; once erroneously thought to have been a sword-case , it opened only at the left hand end , outside the carriage , and its true purpose is obscure . |
| 26 | It consisted only of a simple two-storey stone block with an overall shed behind covering two platforms . |
| 27 | If not , it amounts only to an invalid legacy . |
| 28 | It deals only with the first stage . |
| 29 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 30 | The charter provides evidence of a surprisingly well-worked-out system to ensure castle-guard of the town : in April , May , June , July and August , it was the count 's responsibility , though he paid only for the first two months directly out of his own treasury ; , the inhabitants of the town produced a tax for the following three . |