Example sentences of "have [vb pp] only [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee on Safety of Medicines ( personal communication ) has received only a single report of visual disorder associated with chlorambucil — namely , corneal opacity — and the manufacturers ( Wellcome ) have only a single report of optic neuritis , occurring on day 1 of chlorambucil treatment and not resolving on withdrawal . |
| 2 | Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms . |
| 3 | A good deal of language teaching has followed a bottom-up approach , in that it has considered only the formal language system , often in isolated sentences , without demonstrating or developing the way that system operates in context . |
| 4 | The huge world market out there was worth $330 billion between 1989 and 1992 , but the industry has won only a small share of that business . |
| 5 | The Government has said only a full end to violence is acceptable . |
| 6 | The Muslim Brotherhood has made only a marginal impact on Jordanian life since its entry into parliament . |
| 7 | Thanks to the vagaries of international politics , Ethiopia has had only a tiny slice of this aid cake . |
| 8 | Formerly a private hotel , it has needed only a little work to convert it to its new use . |
| 9 | BOYZ II MEN 's ‘ End Of The Road ’ has become only the third single in 30 years to spend more than ten weeks at the top of the Billboard chart . |
| 10 | He has arrived only a short while before , but did not question the order that von Keller gave to Lt Rosen and several men of the 10th Company to remain close to the vehicle and to bring it up to the battalion by road . |
| 11 | Thanks to Peterborough 's Hospital at Home ( HAH ) system , Jessica has spent only a few days in the local district hospital . |
| 12 | She is modest , feeling she has taken only the first steps . |
| 13 | The solar system has travelled round the galaxy almost 20 times since it was formed , and it has described only a tiny arc of its journey during the two million years that people have been on the Earth . |
| 14 | If she 'd had only the clerical level of interface that she was supposed to have , she 'd never have found it . |
| 15 | She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time . |
| 16 | The England hooker , who has already said that he would have accepted only the usual expenses had he undertaken this summer 's tour of the Republic marking the South African Rugby Board 's centenary , has now been quoted as saying that ‘ remuneration was mentioned . ’ |
| 17 | There are hundreds of places for mooring boats on the Thames — and this boat may have needed only a temporary mooring . |
| 18 | Middlesbrough-born Glendenen went on to score the first century , having become only the second Durham player to make a double-century when he hit 200 not out against Victoria last September in a three-day match unluckily denied first-class status . |
| 19 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 20 | Having recovered only the partial use of one hand , he set to work and wrote Beneath the Visiting Moon . |
| 21 | Moeri 's original procedure , of adding the chemicals to the second vat , would however have taken only a few minutes and would have left the reaction in no condition to explode . |
| 22 | Susceptibility to the toxic effects of paracetamol taken in overdose differs between people , which may explain why some patients survive having taken large amounts of paracetamol while others die having taken only a few tablets more than the eight tablets ( 4 g ) a day recommended by the manufacturers . |
| 23 | As sport is popularly thought of as a leisure time distraction rather than a central life interest or a possible career , it would have held only a marginal interest to the first generation . |
| 24 | Yet mercenaries seem still to have formed only a small part of the German army ; the fief-rente was almost exclusively used to supply garrisons for castles and fortified towns ; and as the Church and its ministeriales became a less reliable source of troops , the twelfth-century emperors resorted to the practice of strengthening feudal bonds and building up the resources of their own domains . |
| 25 | The defendant can already count himself lucky to have received only a two-year sentence , having regard to the amount involved and to the position of trust which he held . |
| 26 | She ran downstairs , circling the lift-shaft , certain that he 'd be gone , but when she emerged into the street , he seemed to have moved only a few yards , walking slowly , his head bowed . |
| 27 | The relaxation of advertising regulations , initially in 1979–80 , and more fully in 1987 , seems to have had only a limited impact on the profession . |
| 28 | While the Odiham Society has earned and received its fair share of credit , it must be concluded that this modest proposal , so long in incubation , was likely even if put into effect , to have had only a marginal impact on the situation it was meant to remedy — as the society soon realised . |
| 29 | And on that occasion print propaganda appears to have played only a minor part . |
| 30 | Other prominent industrialists were involved in canal promotion , though as a group they seem to have provided only a small part of the necessary finance . |