Example sentences of "only [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two types , one with a pecking bird and one with a facing head , have been found in relatively large numbers in the excavations at Southampton and only rarely elsewhere . |
| 2 | It is in fact only rarely openly acknowledged by other anthropologists , though the blanket rejection of evolution which is to be found in the work of many seems to imply . |
| 3 | In packing up the house and moving us to London , Eva was also in pursuit of Charlie , who was only rarely around now . |
| 4 | Nilsson , firmly entrenched in her seventies , leaves her native Sweden only rarely nowadays and she never much cared for recording studios . |
| 5 | The crux of the argument is that , since language users are essentially unpredictable , if we use contextual information very early on in the process of word identification , we will often be misled , since successive words in an utterance are only rarely fully predictable from their prior context . |
| 6 | I can only most fervently wish for your continued success . |
| 7 | And Clara , overcome by the wonderful , felicitous acceptability of his offer , an offer so familiar to her , so marvellously manageable , trembled only most slightly as she said , staring down at the limp arrangements of her hands , " Oui , surement . " |
| 8 | For example , giving Antabuse to a sufferer from Alcoholism , Methadone or Naltrexone to a sufferer from Heroin addiction , anti-depressants or tranquillisers to sufferers from eating disorders or to sufferers from the family disease or other addictions or giving behaviour therapy or aversion therapy or electro-convulsive therapy to anyone suffering from addictive disease is not only most probably inappropriate but cruel as well . |
| 9 | But it 's only on now er weekends . |
| 10 | Well it 's only on about seventeen . |
| 11 | One may therefore think of an innovation in teaching methods as being designed to achieve a set of intentions ( eg , changes in pupils ' ways of thinking ) by means of a set of processes which are usually only rather coarsely determined . |
| 12 | The trouble is that whereas actors move and speak as nature would have most of us do ( only rather better ) , in the performance of music we are using tools ( with the exception of the human voice ) which are in some way external ; they have to be mastered from without rather than from within — and things do go wrong . |
| 13 | His room , a regular human bedroom , only rather too small , lay quiet between the four familiar walls . |
| 14 | Rose was silent in the car , but she drove in her usual manner only rather faster . |
| 15 | But it was only somewhere about thirty degrees Celsius and after a few days I had become accustomed to the change in temperature . |
| 16 | Reasonably complete and reliable economic statistics of any kind became available only slowly even in many of the more developed European states ; and in any case economic issues usually played only a subordinate role in policy-making . |
| 17 | King lived in an age when growth rates changed only slowly so that his greatest concern was the possible end of the world ! |
| 18 | Marissa , a tall cool girl with hair as dark as night , had been not only obviously very clever , but also — alas — very beautiful . |
| 19 | He then announces , only somewhat out of breath , that the law guarantees compensation to Mrs. McLoughlin , whatever anyone else might think . |
| 20 | The analysis of a group of such SAP projects will be meaningful only in about ten years after they became fashionable — that is in about 1995 . |
| 21 | The M'Naghten rules are still in force and the ‘ not guilty by reason of insanity ’ plea succeeds only in about ten cases each year in British courts . |
| 22 | This , effect is observed only in about 50% of methanogenic individuals , however , suggesting that sulphate reducing bacteria and methanogenic bacteria coexist in some , but not all , people . |
| 23 | ‘ I was only down here the once , you know , early on when I helped you clean the kiosk up . |
| 24 | Yeah but she 's only down here to get things from the cleaning cupboard and stuff . |
| 25 | Or only down as far as the moment when the Tiber is hurled back violently from the Etruscan shore ? |
| 26 | I was only down there at the Spinners ’ , but I did n't get to her in time . ’ |
| 27 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 28 | Our knowledge is bounded by our ideas , and extends only so far as they are ideas of real essences . |
| 29 | The observer 's readiness to modify is admirably honest ( Mr Palomar is a nice man ) and ultimately exhausting : the process of adjustment can go only so far before atrophy threatens . |
| 30 | It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will . |