Example sentences of "only [verb] [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such bids are regularly submitted but only account for a very small amount of stock allotted . |
| 2 | This fine-grained limestone is only developed over a very small area , usually thought of as a lagoonal deposit behind sponge reefs , though recently interpreted as deposits in offshore sediment traps . |
| 3 | At the other end of the scale , romantic interest would only exist at a very superficial level , and certainly there would be no question of relationships forming between the TARDIS incumbents . |
| 4 | Still , the taboos have been the source of much mirth : the stand-up 's traditional reliance on smut and mothers-in-law could only exist in a largely sex-negative society . |
| 5 | This brochure is only intended as a very brief introduction to Carmarthen Bay & Teifi Valley . |
| 6 | But she had only checked in a very recent volume . |
| 7 | China could only wait for a more favourable opportunity to recover her rights . |
| 8 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 9 | A young girl who haunts the Feathers Hotel , a one time serving wench , and only seen by a very few . |
| 10 | He paused in his writing only to listen to a rather attractive Finnish poetess reading a sequence about her marital problems . |
| 11 | With glass , for instance , the molecular structure is only disturbed to a comparatively shallow depth below the fracture surface and W is generally around 6 J/m 2 — in other words about six times G — and so , although lg , the critical crack length , is six times as high as it otherwise would be , it is still very short and glass is a brittle material . |
| 12 | For the foreseeable future , units involving the microcomputer as a teaching aid can only contribute to a very small proportion of curriculum time — at present certainly no more than a few hundred hours out of about 50,000 hours of ‘ different ’ teaching in the school curriculum for ages 5 to 18 . |
| 13 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 14 | What we were criticized and several senior councillors quite rightly said , the five thousand pound we were spending was only going to a very few . |
| 15 | The studies only agreed on a consistently high rate of dream reports from REM sleep . |
| 16 | But the former will only switch at a relatively low speed ( 42MHz ) , and the latter produce complex , power-hungry circuits . |
| 17 | Enlightened anticlerical views could only spread among a fairly small educated élite and in Russia , in spite of some ultraconservatives , it was the ruling class which was alienated from the church rather than the mass of the people . |
| 18 | Machismo is receiving some challenge from women 's movements and organisations , but these are only supported by a very small number of women . |
| 19 | It can only operate in a fairly narrow range of light intensity . |
| 20 | There have in fact been achievements in the care of the mentally handicapped in our society , and one of the fundamental barriers still to be broken — that of public opinion — will only come from a more positive attitude among the media to the good things that are happening . |
| 21 | So if you complain about your council tax , do n't , students are exempt anyway so that 's alright , if you complain about your council tax do n't because it only pays for a very small fraction of what local authorities spend . |
| 22 | Laboratory experiments can only last for a relatively short time , and have to be held within the confines of the laboratory . |
| 23 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 24 | The cordon was eventually lifted at 1900 hours and the section flown home , only to prepare for a very full day 's patrolling on the following day . |
| 25 | Stencil only demonstrates in a more manic form a common desire to know , to gain certainty , which is enacted through the related figures of penetrating surfaces , interrogation , breaking codes , and above all analysing texts . |