Example sentences of "only [adv] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Clara , overcome by the wonderful , felicitous acceptability of his offer , an offer so familiar to her , so marvellously manageable , trembled only most slightly as she said , staring down at the limp arrangements of her hands , " Oui , surement . " |
| 2 | There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA . |
| 3 | It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will . |
| 4 | Furthermore s. 2(4) European Communities Act 1972 provides that any Act of the Westminster Parliament shall be presumed not to conflict with EEC legislation , and will be given effect only so far as it does not conflict with the EEC legislation . |
| 5 | An organisation will be effective only so far as it helps individual members to achieve their own personal objectives , and a large part of the task of management is therefore concerned with this problem . |
| 6 | Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ . |
| 7 | She did love Alexander , deeply and passionately , and suddenly it seemed quite natural to say so , in spite of the fact that it was only so recently that she had dared to look her love in the face . |
| 8 | Even among senior players , outside pursuits were tolerated only so long as they did not affect a player 's performance or make football of secondary importance to him . |
| 9 | Academics already in post retain their tenure only so long as they do not move to another university or accept promotion within their present university . |
| 10 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 11 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 12 | We 're only together tonight because you put us both on the same invitation . |
| 13 | It was only much later that she came to understand that the place was in its infancy . |
| 14 | It was only much later that it hit me and that was more shock than something could happen again . ’ |
| 15 | It was only much later that I realised the reason for the request and also for the resulting laughter , namely the enjoyment of a broad Somerset accent which had come with me , and traces of which can still be recognised by West Country people nearly seventy years later . |
| 16 | It was only much later that I remembered my speech had been more or less word for word something my dad had said to me once . |
| 17 | I have , I 've been asked a lot in the last twenty odd years and it 's only just recently that I 've seriously considered it , which is why I 've made this new album , Midnight Postcards . |
| 18 | Probably the most spectactular was Thylacosmilus , which looked exactly like the recently extinct sabre-tooth " tiger " of the Old World , only more so if you see what I mean . |
| 19 | However in nineteen thirty s nineteen forty seven this was n't actually realizing , it was only later on that they saw the incompatibility of the two aims . |
| 20 | It was only later on that she started protesting strongly , and by then it was too late , he was close to coming . |
| 21 | Er I think what he 's trying to say about the rich peasants is that er that they were always resisting the movement , it was only later on when they find that you know , that they , they need to get involved otherwise their own positions are er threatened then , then they 're joining and they 're only joining but were not actually participating in it , they 're not moving along , and so that 's what , that 's why he 's making a distinction between different types of peasants . |
| 22 | It is only comparatively recently that they have all been brought together . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Only as far as they know she had n't seen a doctor . ’ |
| 24 | I like you very much , Shelley , but I will come only as far as you ask me to . ’ |
| 25 | You 're only here once so you 've got to try and make the most of it and enjoy life to the full . ’ |
| 26 | Yes I 'm I 'm not quite sure the regulations are about subsids We , I mean we , it 's only quite recently that we have had a subsidiary , erm , last two or three years , we 've , for many years we did n't have one . |
| 27 | This question too has had a long history though it is only quite recently that it has become a precisely defined issue of zoological theory . |
| 28 | Whereas the serial usage of Example 139 ( the same series in each voice ) easily avoids the occurrence of octaves , octaves are formed only too easily when we use different forms together , as on the second quaver of the last bar , where all voices sound D or E♭ . |
| 29 | Dana did n't need her care — on the contrary , she showed only too clearly that she resented her twin 's interference . |
| 30 | But he had her between a rock and a hard place , and the look in his eyes told her only too clearly that he knew it . |