Example sentences of "only have [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition .
2 The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition .
3 It may be that bizarre , self-destructive and anti-social behaviour which would once only have afflicted the true psychotic will increasingly come to typify what would otherwise have been purely neurotic disorders had they been internalized as hitherto .
4 Given the already appalling and growing rate of homelessness and lack of hostel facilities in London , when more people than ever will not only have to endure the freezing nights of the coming winter on the streets , but perhaps permanent homelessness , it was terrible to see the situation being exploited for a joke by your advertisement : ‘ Just the thing now the evenings are drawing in .
5 A final price ( striking price ) is chosen at which all the shares will be sold ( even those tendering higher prices for the shares will only have to pay the striking price ) .
6 The user does not only have to overcome the physical aspect of dependency , manifest in withdrawal symptoms , but also psychological dependence .
7 Even if " organizational unity " with the ILP had been carried through , this would at best only have doubled the small membership of the Communist Party .
8 Given these factors , any attempt to brand the Celtic Church heretical would only have entailed the complete loss of Ireland .
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