Example sentences of "only [verb] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This dog not only became a very good show dog , but also an excellent working dog and great stock getter . |
| 2 | This year I could only stay a very short time , as I had to get out to Cliveden for a charity ball the same evening . |
| 3 | It only wants a measly thousand pounds , alright ? |
| 4 | With such a tool it only needs a little extra pressure to severely weaken the main trace line . |
| 5 | It only needs a slightly increased tempo to be the great national anthem our country maybe does n't deserve , but will surely grow into when we have cast off childish things and grasped the thistle of independence . |
| 6 | It rinsed out easily and considering I only used a very small amount , my hair was much more manageable and shiny afterwards . ’ |
| 7 | The Corrado not only has a little more power and torque , it also benefits from about 170lb less bulk . |
| 8 | Erm , I mean I think if we 're wishing to analyse the application , I I think we must consider what it does n't do for the village , and I think there are a number of aspects that have to be considered , erm , first of all as a village , and I 've heard in this very Parish Council that the reputed view made that there is a need for small village accommodation , this development certainly does not provide that , we 've also expressed a view that it would be nice to retain the existing bungalow , because that is small village accommodation , and although it only has a very limited history , again it would be nice to retain it as an integral part of the village . |
| 9 | You can not only expect a very warm welcome in Seefeld , but the green fees wo n't make your toes curl and the course is rarely crowded . |
| 10 | Sleek people accustomed to dealing with idler 's sunshine , some of them dancing only to explore a little vulgar love . |
| 11 | Er it was known by archaeologists and the Royal Commission of Ancient and Historical Monuments had done a survey , but it had only done a very brief survey , and they said this is part of something left of a medieval building here . |
| 12 | And Thiercelin wondered whether of all the men in the Grand Army , he alone realized that the charmless , unpopular Davout was a better soldier , and a better man , than the emperor , and might have served as an example to princes , had he only possessed a little more humanity . |
| 13 | And he only exemplifies a much stronger theme in the work as a whole : the failure of the good , one might even say a sense of ‘ defeatism ’ . |
| 14 | This , of course , could only give a very broad idea of the scope of the research . |
| 15 | You 're now beginning to use the short- term plan to muster resources and that 's very dangerous because er , you 've only got a very small snapshot of what 's going on . |
| 16 | and Aaron get up , we 've , we 've only got a very small bedroom so we might as well make the most of it , we 've had quotes and all that and erm , look not the cheapest but not the exp the most expensive erm |
| 17 | The mythologies of tragic sacrifice that have coalesced around gay writers like Oscar Wilde and Joe Orton tend only to impede a fully contextual understanding of how their sexuality and textuality inform each other . |
| 18 | The absence in 1983 of any need to think about , and justify , a second term given the disarray of the opposition not only produced a remarkably thin manifesto ( Why take unnecessary risks ? ) but also , more significantly , led to a loss of momentum . |
| 19 | This is crucial to my theme because the concept of the unity of mankind could only become a fully meaningful idea when it became plausible to suppose that there was no hitherto undiscovered , unmapped , corner of the world where man-like but sub-human creatures might still survive . |
| 20 | In order to deal with this we have done both , that is not only compared a strictly identical sample of newspapers , but also provided the full range of the newspaper selection for each sample year . |
| 21 | One successful type of sponsorship that not only creates a more accurate impression of modern teaching methods but also gives parents something back in the way of entertainment is the sponsored Krypton Factor type event . |
| 22 | Another advantage of small chips with few address lines is that each cell of a chip only stores a very crude fragment of knowledge about the image on the retina . |
| 23 | I was n't so sure I was going to throw up now , but that same irresponsible , destructive part of my brain-just a few neurons probably , but I suppose there are a few in every brain and it only takes a very small hooligan element to give the rest a bad name — kept thinking about those fried eggs and bacon on the cold plate , and each time I almost heaved . |
| 24 | This , in turn , means that the female can only lay a relatively small number of eggs in a clutch . |
| 25 | In such a situation the teacher can not choose when to use the programme , and unless it is a rebroadcast , he will only have a very general idea of what the programme will be about or what its language content will be ( vocabulary , grammar , structures , level of difficulty , appropriateness , etc ) . |
| 26 | Now then , what sort of people do you think it 's most important then to have in a team , because you 'll only have a very small team ? |
| 27 | It would only take a marginally improved thrust to give the aircraft a vastly improved ground-to-air time , a higher ceiling and a greatly boosted top airspeed . ’ |
| 28 | The Iranian snapped back : ‘ You 've only brought a very small amount of spare parts . ’ |
| 29 | He said : ‘ Although the project is only creating a relatively small number of jobs it is still quite a substantial financial development . |
| 30 | When you try to analyse a painting using words , you can only manage a very questionable approximation , worse than questionable , because , after all , painting and art in general , especially visual art , is a language in itself , a visual language instead of a spoken language . |