Example sentences of "only [verb] a [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon suggests , ‘ only using a cheque book for household bills and so on . |
| 2 | In future students will be under the control of the Education rather than the Service side , and will only make a service contribution of 20 per cent of the student 's time ( approximately 6 months of the 3 year period ) . |
| 3 | By the time I had finished my Kachin fieldwork I had only to attend an animal sacrifice as a passive observer and then notice how the meat of the sacrifice was shared out among " the congregation and I could know , even down to quite line detail , the precise hierarchy and mutual relationship of everyone present , which might be thirty or more individuals altogether . |
| 4 | ‘ Every climbing rope should only undergo a set number of falls before being thrown away , ’ explains Oag . |
| 5 | Hauser not only has a twenty-acre estate at Livingstone Manor . |
| 6 | The findings included caesium 134 which , as it only has a half life of two years , indicates that it must have originated in recent tests . |
| 7 | This material was bought a year ago for £750 but is now obsolete and would therefore only fetch a scrap price of £50 . |
| 8 | And if Rangers striker Mark Hateley needs a preview of what he 's up against at Ibrox tonight , he need only watch a video replay of that moment of madness . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've only got a death warning on my packet ! ’ |
| 10 | Prior to this service , pump manufacturers would only provide a test pump for a well if the customer agreed to purchase the unit or pay for repairs at the end of the test period . |
| 11 | Deborah Campagnoni of Italy , who won the Olympic super-giant only to tear a knee ligament in giant slalom , is back in action . |
| 12 | She only needed an evening gown like the one Dana wore in the magazine picture and no one would believe there were two of them . |
| 13 | Harry may only have a walk-on part at Birdland , but he 's still the star of the show . |
| 14 | It says Windows NT — launched today — will only have a 12% share of the server market — 11% in revenue — by 1997 , by which time Unix should have 64% , 62% by value . |
| 15 | It says Windows NT will only have a 12% share of the server market — 11% in revenue — by 1997 , by which time Unix should have 64% , or 62% by value . |
| 16 | The important thing to note is that such words will only have a value charge as part of their standard meaning , if the users of the language mostly have a certain shared attitude to what answers to the descriptive meaning . |
| 17 | It may have sounded odd to only have an 18in tube for a four foot tank , but this is another attempt to try to establish a more natural environment . |
| 18 | This is one of the smallest species only attaining an adult size of 4cm for both sexes . |
| 19 | In hindsight , it 's difficult to understand what all the furore was about , since Sikorsky only took a minority stake in Westland , but at the height of the storm Cuckney found himself in the unwelcome glare of national publicity . |
| 20 | Funny from the start , he becomes serious only to pay a sterling tribute to the finest batsman of all , and to announce MCC gifts of £20,000 and copies of two paintings to the cause . |
| 21 | She caught worldwide attention last year when she claimed in a defence of prostitution charges that she could only satisfy a sex addiction by selling herself to the long line of men . |
| 22 | That 's the number of lucky motorists the Wolfsburg manufacturer has equipped with the Golf G60 Limited , a car that was the subject of over 1000 enquiries when it was announced to dealers in Germany last year but only had a production run of 70 . |
| 23 | Was the poor relief paid to able-bodied workers over-generous to the extent that it not only created a dependency culture by reducing the incentive to work , but put a premium on early marriage and on childbirth ? |
| 24 | As it turned out she was in the bath when she heard the sounds of a car pulling up outside , swiftly followed by tapping on the door , and she jumped quickly from the water , pausing only to belt a towelling robe about her waist . |
| 25 | ‘ The difference between the book trade and other retail trades is that there are some half million new product lines each year , ’ explains Mr Barker , ‘ and many of those only have a shelf life of six months . |