Example sentences of "[adv] only [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By phrasing control in these terms , the courts can preserve the impression that they are thereby only fulfilling the legislative will . |
| 2 | Second , whereas a rejection of the goods supplied under a contract of sale entitles the buyer to claim a refund of the price , if already paid , termination of a contract for work and materials or for services will normally only entitle the innocent party to claim damages for the breach . |
| 3 | The stoichiometric equation thus only shows the overall reaction . |
| 4 | ‘ I usually only scrub the front tyre when I get into a turn too hot but this is how it goes : You 're in fourth gear and jetting down to this U-turn . |
| 5 | Café curtains , which traditionally only cover the lower half of the window , offer a very simple solution to privacy and are ideal in kitchens which face onto a busy road . |
| 6 | They really only showed the official part of today 's procession and cut it pretty speedily , in fact as the more alarmist banners started to come into view . |
| 7 | The Sunday Times , under Rupert Murdoch , was moving to the right , and Right-Ons now only had the weedy Observer , which was rapidly disappearing into the abyss of consumer journalism for the comfortable middle classes . |
| 8 | Mikhail Gorbachev 's Soviet Union had once seemed the enlightened exception , but now only proves the bloody rule . |
| 9 | The main river of the strath is not called Conon but Meig and its headwaters rise on the slopes of Moruisg/Ceannaichean above Achnashellach , giving a through route which was once as busy as Strath Bran but now only sees the rare backpacker with an eye for good cross-country walking . |
| 10 | Two wills becoming one , when the two wills were initially unequal can surely only mean the one will subordinating itself to the other . |