Example sentences of "[adv] only [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public-sector contracts anyway only account for a small proportion of Olivetti 's sales , says Mr De Benedetti . |
| 2 | His mood swings are generally only related to the latest project he 's working on . |
| 3 | The Commission and the European Parliament have conducted regular opinion polls over many years to monitor the development of such an identity , but it is still only felt by a small minority of Europeans . |
| 4 | Then there is the maddening fact that , of the five great investigative Ws ( who ? what ? where ? when ? and why ? ) , we can still only account for the first four in the matter of the Watergate break-in . |
| 5 | Brittle bone disease , or osteoporosis , which is usually only seen in the elderly , is now appearing in these young women , of whom there are several thousand in Scotland . |
| 6 | Phil Edmonds had the most perfect bowling action , probably only matched by the great Bishen Bedi , and one you would gladly try to teach to any youngster . |
| 7 | Of course , the truth about how he has done it will probably only emerge in a ghosted autobiography that will cost some newspaper a king 's ransom . |
| 8 | Theory is no substitute for practical experience and this experience is often only bought at a high price . |
| 9 | Retrofits have proved more expensive and really only serve for the short term . |
| 10 | Therefore the Supreme Court 's analysis of the case really only revolved around the second question presented to it , namely , conviction under the mail and wire fraud statutes . |
| 11 | Alongees are now only made by a few manufacturers . |
| 12 | Brockway had specifically rejected any proposal to reaffiliate to the Labour Party at the end of 1934 : " The decisive objection to this " , he wrote , " is that a Socialist can now only function through the Labour Party by giving up his Socialism " . |
| 13 | Cerecloth , a waxed unbleached linen — nowadays only seen as the protective sheet between the top of an altar and the fair linen — was rarely used for shrouds and is more associated with the wrapping of embalmed corpses , having been used as an adjunct to such hygienic treatment . |
| 14 | At a photo-session violinist Nigel Kennedy would initially only pose with a one-stringed acoustic guitar . |
| 15 | It describes in particular the ways in which Provençal painting , influenced by the development of photography , ‘ japonisme ’ and out of doors sketching , used a range of techniques which art history has previously only associated with the Paris-based Impressionists . |
| 16 | Many extremely interesting publications on art currently only exist as a one-off draft . |
| 17 | The increase in flexibility may be conceded , although it should be added that it commonly only extended to the classic texts , most notably the works of Shakespeare , whose assumed centrality continued to be justified in terms both of their uniquely potent literary rhetoric , and their cultural and imaginative force within " the pool of our common experience " . |
| 18 | Those with faith are those who can ‘ see ’ , and who may therefore only engage in a limited dialogue with the ‘ blind ’ . |
| 19 | Specifically , Sartre creates a single history by excluding all histories except that of the West ; his history as totalization can therefore only work through a determined ethnocentricity . |