Example sentences of "only [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it was clear that the government had only joined as a last resort to try and solve the country 's economic problems . |
| 2 | In addition , the copyright monopoly is only given for a certain period of time ( eg in the UK , 50 years from the end of the year in which the author dies ) , but databases are usually continuously updated with new information , therefore does the protection period keep changing ? |
| 3 | I was excited to use it since I had only painted onto a stretched canvas once before , and I stretched it eagerly and tightly . |
| 4 | But then what else could she have expected as she was only clad in a thin night-gown . |
| 5 | At its strongest , sexuality within holy matrimony was only justified as a necessary part of reproduction . |
| 6 | ‘ It was only intended as a short-term measure , ’ Schaffer objected , ‘ to keep the valley clear and give us the best possible chance for a manhunt . ’ |
| 7 | The literature included here is only intended as a preliminary guide . |
| 8 | The explanation below is only intended as a brief reference guide . |
| 9 | The use of small suffix letters after the fleet numbers of the cars from municipal fleets , was only regarded as a temporary measure and it was decided to renumber them , either in gaps in the L.C.C . |
| 10 | The HDS/SecureWare offering is only accredited as a single-user CMW . |
| 11 | For the rest of the decade the working classes were only depicted in a small number of undistinguished films which celebrated or exploited the skills of particular groups of workers . |
| 12 | Bobby pounded on the door with his fists , but Enoch only responded with a Jewish incantation . |
| 13 | To an extent , the questionnaire approach can be sterile and impersonal , but questions are only included after a good deal of face to face discussion . |
| 14 | It is only permitted as a private belief , so any kind of witnessing is dangerous . |
| 15 | Thus individuals are only presented with a limited choice of tenure and , according to the Nationwide Building Society |
| 16 | Thus , the MSc in Education is not only seen as a regular part of the national system of educational in-service education in Scotland , but it has a strong international appeal . |
| 17 | He is probably also right when he says that he is only seen as a Spanish artist because his interest lies in Spanish art , instead of in French art ‘ like everyone else' : in other words , within the accepted categories there is no room for a Mexican who is interested in Spanish art . ' |
| 18 | Alongees are now only made by a few manufacturers . |
| 19 | Such statements are only made after a considerable expenditure of time and effort by both the company and its auditors . |
| 20 | The child was only freed from a fume-filled car when her frantic mother began knocking on the locked garage door . |
| 21 | The Commission and the European Parliament have conducted regular opinion polls over many years to monitor the development of such an identity , but it is still only felt by a small minority of Europeans . |
| 22 | However , to date this exciting new technology has only adopted on a voluntary basis . |
| 23 | She and her husband had only moved to a government-sponsored caravan park south of Miami after Hurricane Andrew destroyed their home last August . |
| 24 | They say I have only flirted with a temporary vice and its vice-keeper and , having survived them both , I am still me and I am no junkie . |
| 25 | French biologists ignored Darwin and only turned to a Lamarckian version of evolutionism in the 1880s . |
| 26 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 27 | Theory is no substitute for practical experience and this experience is often only bought at a high price . |
| 28 | and erm , she said oh well you know , were gon na try , and then , and then , I said well what about Elly she said , well she , she , I said swop with Elly , but she 's only got like a two bedroom |
| 29 | A similarly failed road , at least to the west of Bicester , is the Roman Akeman Street which is only used as a modern road in short sections . |
| 30 | Flogging was only used as a judicial punishment in a handful of cases each year throughout the 1920s and 1930s , and the birching of young boys ' bottoms was also passing out of favour . |