Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] only [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His description of the recovery of a Hunter over a Swiss airshow served as another graphic reminder that a performance should emphasize the aircraft 's character but should utilize only the established skills of the pilot — and should never require his super-human efforts to get out of a situation . |
| 2 | This should need only a few turns |
| 3 | For most chemical reactions the rate of reaction is much slower than the collision frequency so you must assume only a small fraction of collisions result in a reaction . |
| 4 | Section 12(3) applies to a contract where it appears from the contract or is to be inferred from the circumstances that the parties intended that the seller should transfer only a limited title ( whether it be the limited title of the seller himself or of some third person from whom the seller would obtain it ) . |
| 5 | Among political theorists it is widely accepted that , to sustain a democracy , participation and active citizenship should have only a minimal role . |
| 6 | Thus , the population as a whole should require only a small risk premium , much smaller than that required by executives in an individual company who may face personal disaster if the project turns sour . |
| 7 | The profit and loss account should bear only the net movement in the provisions for unrealised profit . |
| 8 | We should not overlook the possibility of attracting professional musicians into church music , and the teaching profession in particular contains people who might need only a little persuasion to help , at least on an occasional basis . |
| 9 | He pointed out that modifying the credit acquisition policies might have only a minimal effect , since most of the losses were from cases accepted some time ago . |
| 10 | how many clients we 've got , you know for updating , what the capacities are and plus er we do n't know erm what sort of cable we 've got in so they might have only a ten P a cable when they already have nine pairs in use |
| 11 | Officers seemed to gain easier exemption from building regulations and from restrictions on landlordism ; their attempts to influence judges in cases in which they might have only an indirect interest were also reported , in private , by judges . |
| 12 | For example , the £750 million outstanding on credit cards might represent only a few weeks ' purchases . |
| 13 | In the complex interactions between myself and the countless others with whom I am remotely or directly engaged , my self-awareness and the self-regarding inclinations which it generates may occupy only a small part of my field of awareness , and not for any moral reason ; I feel myself spontaneously pulled towards admiration as well as pride , submission as well as power , masochism as well as sadism , judging myself from other viewpoints as well is judging others from mine . |
| 14 | At one extreme , an encoder may provide only a bibliographic identification of the text . |
| 15 | It was an enormous moment , this good-bye to the old home ; so enormous she could hardly grasp it , could feel only a vague regret . |
| 16 | She could feel only a few twigs . |
| 17 | The house was n't visible from where they stood , in the cool beneath the branches , and even further along , where the path turned , following the contours of the shoreline , they could see only a small part of it , jutting up , white between the intense green of the surrounding trees . |
| 18 | With the torches extinguished , Rostov could see only a vague blur where each of the targets stood . |
| 19 | Soon the mist grew thicker and he could see only a few feet in front of him . |
| 20 | In the mist , Giles could see only a few feet ahead , so he moved very carefully . |
| 21 | Her involvement with Adam and Rourke had brought her nothing but trouble and recrimination so far , and when she looked ahead to the future she could see only a bleak landscape stretching out before her . |
| 22 | Here , he could see only the occasional flutter of movement , as the fearful denizens of the area tried to keep out of the way and out of trouble . |
| 23 | At first , he could utter only the first syllable of each name . |
| 24 | The first was that natural justice could have only a limited application in the context of the wider duties or discretion imposed upon a minister ; unfortunately the courts had applied those limited notions of natural justice to other areas where the constraints were unnecessary . |
| 25 | Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions . |
| 26 | In some places , it could take only a small shift to bring socialists back to power . |
| 27 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 28 | He could hear only a faint murmur of voices from behind the closed door . |
| 29 | I could hear only the little lap of water slipping past Joanna 's planks as she lay at anchor . |
| 30 | The contrasting fortunes of share prices and sterling were illustrated by the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index closing within a whisker of its best for the year whilst sterling could manage only a marginal improvement from Thursday 's all-time low against the German mark . |