Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 2 | The cultural field expands thus to such a point that it bursts through the barriers that had previously contained it as only a de-limited field . |
| 3 | Samples can be collected which not only adequately represent the facies or lithosomes under study , but are appropriate in orientation , size , shape and freshness to the selected preparation techniques . |
| 4 | At the least , Swegen 's victories are likely to have owed something not only to his doubtless considerable abilities as a commander , but also to an administration capable of utilising resources effectively and controlling the country in his absence . |
| 5 | It must have threatened him not only with disillusionment , but with a despair verging on the suicidal ; and if he persists in disseminating the message , he does so almost somnambulistically , as a means of distracting himself from his uncertainties . |
| 6 | Travis led the way to the library and , to show that he knew Rosemary 's parents ' phone number by heart , although he had phoned her there only once , he immediately started to dial . |
| 7 | The only times she talked openly about her hopes and disappointments was when she was drunk — a state Dexter had seen her in only three times , all at parties and all after the separation from her husband . |
| 8 | The firm of Wilkes , Son and Cassey ceased trading in 1926 , the business and premises were purchased by The Salisbury Co-operative Society Limited who then only stocked larger items of ironmongery and added a furniture department on the first floor . |
| 9 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 10 | However unpopular such a measure might at first appear , the long experience of the commissioners had shown them not only the inefficacy in most cases but also the cruelty of issuing executions against the goods of defendants — ‘ as regards the wives and children of debtors by selling their beds from under them , and the expense and oppression attending the levy ’ . |
| 11 | Motability has arranged special schemes with motor manufacturers , wheelchair manufacturers , insurance brokers , and other so that today a variety of schemes can be offered which not only help disabled people become mobile but also give them a chance to be truly independent . |
| 12 | I have raised them here only in order to put paedophilia into some kind of social context . |
| 13 | Morally speaking , it has raised her not only to Mr B 's level , but above it . |
| 14 | If he produced a book about once every five years , he could pretend to have been working on it all that time , even it he had cobbled it together only in the last two or three months . |
| 15 | She had called it ‘ Death in the Buildings ’ , and had based it not only on the tragedy she had witnessed , but had also written of the temptation for young girls to make money by selling themselves than by working long hours for poor pay , and had followed that by writing of women 's disabilities in a world where care in childbirth was minimal , and how only the kindness of humane doctors made it possible for them to have any skilled treatment at all . |
| 16 | The truth of the matter is that we have seen a substantial reduction in direct tax rates , a substantial improvement in standards of living and , as a result of the reduction in tax rates , an improvement in the tax base , which has enabled us not only to achieve increased public spending on a large scale in our key priority areas , especially health , but to achieve a reduction in direct income tax and , overall , considerably to improve our public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 17 | Lady Morton had no doubt enjoined them not only to look after his every need , but also to report back to her . |
| 18 | Having worked with too many men for too long , she confessed to having found them out only too soon . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't think that she expected me to run down the shot ’ said Emmons , referring to her magnificent dash across the baseline to reach an all but winning forehand from Bentley which would have given her not only the first set , but also the psychological ‘ first blood ’ . |
| 20 | Was he furious because she 'd led him on only to change her mind at the last minute ? |
| 21 | We had put them out only last week , in hopes of May meaning spring was here . |
| 22 | She had glimpsed him afar only a moment or so ago . |
| 23 | It was n't as if they had some sort of relationship ; he had taken her out only to help her with her search . |
| 24 | This concern has expressed itself not only in papers on children 's acquisition of literacy ( e.g. , Donaldson , 1984 , 1989 ) , but also in the publication of a number of children 's stories and of a reading and language programme for children in primary classrooms ( Reid and Donaldson , 1984 ) . |
| 25 | There 's not a lot you can do with the pork once you 've cooked it so only |
| 26 | Lorraine was in prison for 18 months , and when she was released she not only faced the prospect of rebuilding family life for her children , but also the pressure of having a husband still inside . |
| 27 | In 1939 , Pétain refused to be a candidate for the Presidency , recalling that he had once described it as only ‘ suitable for defeated marshals ’ . |