Example sentences of "[vb past] only [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Battie believed in avoiding extremes of pleasure or anxiety , and recommended only those occupations which absorbed the patient 's attention without creating strain , such as copying lists of names . |
| 2 | Savings banks , naturally enough , attracted only those workers with a surplus to save . |
| 3 | The Countess of Donnington upheld only those laws with which she agreed , and the rationing of footwear and clothing and the issuing of clothing coupons were not among them . |
| 4 | In this case it is clear that the original excavators included only those coins which they deemed of sufficient importance for publication . |
| 5 | He changed his mind , and set off in another right direction , but this offered only more hills . |
| 6 | The king kept only those functions which the Cortes could not in practice exercise itself , together with a severely limited suspensive veto . |
| 7 | In Chapters 5 and 6 we counted only those paths which spanned the entire utterance , anchoring the beginning of the search at the left-hand end and ignoring all paths that failed to match through to the right-hand end . |
| 8 | One might be able to construct a law which penalized only those batteries which cause , or are likely to cause , significant annoyance , but it is doubtful whether the insertion of a ( necessarily vague ) standard would alter the nature of the problem . |
| 9 | Congress ( I ) and its allies gained only enough seats to form a minority government ; the party performed particularly badly in its traditional northern " Hindi belt " heartlands , where the BJP made a major impact , eventually emerging as the main opposition party and gaining over one-fifth of the total seats . |