Example sentences of "[noun pl] only [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if mutations reduce adult survival 16 times more than they reduce juvenile survival ( that is , v= 16 ) , a net mutation rate reduces juvenile and adult survival from their optimal values ( 0.945 , 0.505 ) to ( 0.866 , 0.155 ) ; if the mutations only affected adult survival , a mutation rate U 0.067 would reduce adult survival to zero . |
| 2 | Words only represented reality . |
| 3 | Earlier Frankish successions from the sixth century onwards had divided the heartlands , the patrimony , between royal brothers as well as assigning whatever acquired regna were available : the 806 and 817 projects , by contrast , gave the first-born son the patrimony entire , leaving the younger brothers only acquired regna . |
| 4 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 5 | In his account of the conference Armstrong ( secretary of the Chemical Society ) noted that participants only received copies of the report on the first morning of the meeting ( 19 April 1892 ) . |
| 6 | The defendant who was employed as the manager of a bookmakers only met customers once ( if at all ) as most business was done by telephone and was of a credit nature . |
| 7 | Rey 's orchestral players only needed guidance ‘ in quite rare cases ’ , whereas |
| 8 | The man , from Helen 's home town Horndean , near Portsmouth , was taken for questioning on Wednesday but police only released news of his arrest yesterday . |
| 9 | Mr Smedley was involved in an argument early on Saturday morning although police only released details of the incident yesterday . |
| 10 | People could transcribed phonemes with a high degree of accuracy , even without syntactic or semantic context , whereas the ARPA systems only achieved bottom-up recognition rates of around 50% . |
| 11 | The holdalls only contained towels , shampoo and the ‘ action footwear ’ we 'd bought yesterday . |
| 12 | He says the victims only escaped injury because they cooperated with the robbers |
| 13 | Even then , the photographs only told part of the story . |