Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A place is private and this offence can not be committed where only a minority group of the public are admitted . |
| 2 | Starting at the crowded favoured end is all very well if you can get a good clean start , but more often than not , there is so much crowding that only a few boards get away in clean wind . |
| 3 | While P P G twelve provides for a cascade of planning policy , I suggest that only a purist would delay a resolution of the needs of Greater York , through the development plan process , in order to await regional planning guidance . |
| 4 | Also , the results of many surveys in both the United States and the United Kingdom suggest that only a few firms explicitly take the rate of interest into account in deciding whether or not to carry out an investment project . |
| 5 | Optimistic courtiers suggest that only the marriage of the Queen 's youngest son , Prince Edward , to a suitable bride could redeem the popularity of the Monarchy . |
| 6 | Michael Meacher and Frank Field have stressed that only a limited circle of people were actively involved in formulating the industrial policy proposals , and that beyond this circle , understanding of the proposals was rather minimal . |
| 7 | The hon. Member for Ogmore said that the opinion polls demonstrated that only a limited number of people would be interested in total deregulation . |
| 8 | If the function of the leave requirement is to weed out unarguable or vexatious cases it might be expected that only a small proportion of cases would fail at this stage . |
| 9 | Although it might be expected that only the better-educated and wealthier sections of the community would watch television , the existence of the extended family system meant that the television sets owned by prosperous Zambians were also watched by a number of relatives who were less well off . |
| 10 | It should not be forgotten that only the endowed chantries were confiscated under the Chantries Act ; the guilds still continued but more as funeral clubs than intercessionary fraternities . |
| 11 | While their opponents in 1830 believed that a considerable measure of parliamentary reform would lead to national catastrophe , the Whigs maintained that only a considerable measure could prevent a catastrophe … |
| 12 | From January 1983 , married women will have the right to apply for Family Income Supplement ( a means-tested supplement for low wage-earners with children which currently specifies that only the husband in a married couple may apply ) and , provided the couple agree that she has been and is the main breadwinner , a married woman may then apply for means-tested supplementary benefit . |
| 13 | The Canadians , more experienced than most in these matters , say that only a modest amount of special training is needed to turn a good soldier into a good peacekeeper . |
| 14 | Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money . |
| 15 | Patterson found that only the problem child was permitted to be out of control in interaction with the parents , while all of the children were permitted to be out of control when interacting with each other . |
| 16 | There are also sparsely distributed , highly nutritious fruits , and Bell and his colleagues found that only the Thomson 's gazelle eats much of these . |
| 17 | After my research I found that only the rich countries make weapons and the poor countries simply buy the finished goods . |
| 18 | It is considered that only a solicitor can act Mr reward as an agent , as was thought was the position under the 1959 Act . |
| 19 | MEED of April 5 reported that only an estimated US$4,536 million to US$6,924 million of the US$13,500 million pledged by the Saudi government [ see p. 37988 ] had so far been paid . |
| 20 | The controversies and speculations will no doubt continue for many years to come and only the briefest notes will be given here to suggest some of the possibilities , without prejudice but also with realism . |
| 21 | Today , thankfully , the acrimony is forgotten and only the coffee is bitter . |
| 22 | These numbers are also relevant for attempts to solve Fermat 's Conjecture ( se Section 3.5 ) and indeed the FC would be solved if only the uniqueness of factorisation theorem valid for numbers of the form a + pb and a + ib extended to them . |
| 23 | ‘ Similarly , if a woman has a child 's high voice and is arguing with a child , the child will always win because only the child 's voice is natural . |
| 24 | Now , imply that there is no stretch , as would be expected because only a pure rotation of axes has been involved . |
| 25 | Soft cuttings may root after only a few weeks , so pot individual cuttings as soon as you see new young leaves or white roots at the base of containers . |
| 26 | By experimenting with the duration of incubation they found that fusion occurred after only a few hours , and that viable hybrids could be grown in a liquid culture medium containing glucose , monosodium glutamate , a mixture of vitamins , sodium chloride and extracts of Raphanus brassica ( common mustard ) . |
| 27 | The basis was no longer to be the palace scaled down , but the cottage extended : ‘ In this view of a villa , the dwelling is to be considered as only an amplification of the cottage . ’ |
| 28 | But people are much more likely — and we should stress that only the lunatic fringe is involved — to believe it necessary that those they perceive as only minimally inferior to themselves should be annihilated . |
| 29 | The more he thought about it , the more he realized that only a slight change would need to be made to his own plans . |
| 30 | But Greenpeace insist that only a small percentage of the fish caught by the seals are of interest to the fishermen , and that over-fishing remains the main threat to North Sea fish stocks . |