Example sentences of "only [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The return of William Purser to England released me from my obligation not to preach in English , and shortly after his departure I was invited to preach in Rangoon cathedral , then very much a chaplaincy parish church , and only rarely having great services in Burmese . |
| 2 | Well , they were professionals as far as I know , it was n't a matter there of professionals beating amateurs. erm As for the distinction between the amateur and the professional , no , I think , I think that we 've got stuck with this amateur business , partly because it 's related to the idea of the English gentleman , which is only slowly fading . |
| 3 | MBO and venture capital fund investors are only slowly appreciating that the trade-off for the lower risk inherent in transactions that are more carefully selected and more conservatively structured than those typical in the mid-eighties has to be lower anticipated rates of return , whether the exit is via a trade sale or a flotation on to a less than receptive equity market . |
| 4 | It looks as if Mr Honecker , 77 and only slowly recovering from a gall-bladder operation , is incapable of grasping the situation in his country . |
| 5 | ‘ The world is only slowly emerging from recession and it is not certain whether Germany 's has been arrested . |
| 6 | In the East these restrictions were either almost unknown , as in the Ottoman Empire , or were only slowly winning acceptance , as in Russia . |
| 7 | HRH The Prince of Wales encapsulated this aspiration at the Action for Wales Conference in Cardiff in 1991 — ‘ I believe the need for thorough and thoughtful environment education is , perhaps , greater than ever because increased environmental awareness and concern are only slowly leading to more environmental action . |
| 8 | But above all , engineers are only slowly acknowledging that many Western solutions , principally water-borne sewerage systems , are not the right answer for many parts of the Third World . |
| 9 | And this time the poor are losing — the notion of " scrounger " has been mobilised as a new scourge against them , not only successfully legitimating the dole as the lowest of low benefits , but also its actual reduction ( through the abolition of earnings-related benefit in 1981 ) and the enforced dependence on the means-tested supplementary benefit . |
| 10 | Below sounding write only long holding notes . |
| 11 | Crippled as he was from many falls , only lately taking their toll , he found in the lawn mower a kind of substitute for the experiences of earlier , dangerous days . |
| 12 | The resemblance of a cloud to a weasel is only mildly diverting , barely worth calling to the attention of our companion . |
| 13 | She stood up , holding her hands to her face , laughing and weeping at the same time , gasping for breath , feeling her heart and only finally throwing her arms up in joy . |
| 14 | ‘ Miss Hardbroom , I was the frog in the potion laboratory , the one you found in the corridor , and the potion I took is only just wearing off , that 's why I have n't any feet at the moment . |
| 15 | ‘ The view is that the middle tier will have to merge , and we are only just seeing the beginning of this , ’ Michael Jenkin , Glanville 's managing director , told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 16 | that 's right , so you 'll probably only just seeing |
| 17 | This is the situation which the Irish faced in the 1980s and from which they are only just escaping . |
| 18 | This is the situation which the Irish faced in the 1980s and from which they are only just escaping . |
| 19 | ‘ Remember one thing ! ’ he said angrily , only just controlling himself as he held her by the shoulders . |
| 20 | We are only just beginning to recognize that if we take this attitude , we are denying to arts and letters , and to the criticism of them , any bearing at all on public life — including , for instance , public education . |
| 21 | We are only just beginning to see the first stirrings of a new debate on industry 's competitiveness . |
| 22 | Trowark style is large , enveloping and extremely cosy with an almost indestructible quality — one five-year-old jumper seen by The Independent is only just beginning to look ‘ broken in ’ after years of frequent machine washing and hard wear . |
| 23 | To give an idea of the desolation of some of the villages ( in the Saratov area ) ( may mention that the village of Kano , in the Markstadt district , which has a normal population of over 3,000 , has now only 1,100 inhabitants left , and remember the winter is only just beginning . |
| 24 | It is a highly political issue with international ramifications which we are only just beginning to tackle and which will increasingly burden the agendas of the European Community 's new environmental agency . |
| 25 | But , in Britain , it was election year , and , in America , President Johnson was only just beginning to grasp the reins of power after Kennedy 's assassination , and so little political progress was made . |
| 26 | Much of our knowledge of Beaker burials derives from excavations conducted in the last century , when the principles of good archaeological practice were only just beginning to be formulated . |
| 27 | The steady gaze was only just beginning to show a hint of scorn . |
| 28 | But the health effects were only just beginning . |
| 29 | They have weathered every kind of financial storm over the centuries and have skills which the public sector is only just beginning to learn . |
| 30 | Feminist cinema may be a ‘ global issue ’ , in Susan Hayward 's words , too large and bumpy and may be possible to argue that in theoretical and critical terms the truly global issues of a multi-racial international feminism are only just beginning to be addressed . |