Example sentences of "[vb base] only [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But colour terms frequently qualify only part of the object their head noun denotes ; furthermore , different colour terms may typically apply to different parts , so that , for instance , Mary 's eyes are blue and Mary 's eyes are red are not contraries ( N.B. there is no lexical ambiguity in these sentences ) . |
| 2 | I eat only fish at the Mermaid these days — not because I believe in dieting , but because I once suffered an awful chips surfeit that put me off them for life . |
| 3 | As early as 1917 Roxburgh demonstrated that many municipal legal systems had developed devices to avoid the restrictions and inconveniences caused by a rigid adherence to the analogous rule that contracts bind only parties to them , a process that continues . |
| 4 | I want only children in my kingdom . |
| 5 | If you remain silent the nightmare will continue for Edward and Joan McDermott who want only justice for an innocent little boy whose young life was snuffed out in a moment of senseless savagery . |
| 6 | I can see how those faded images might suggest sultry nights of Mediterranean passion even if to me they now evoke only memories of sunburn and Retsina hangovers . |
| 7 | Uniformed police and plainclothes detectives were also present in even greater numbers than had originally been planned after an elaborate bomb hoax only hours before the funeral . |
| 8 | Assuming that the ultimate disclosure is made at the same time under either rule , they receive only $50 for their share without insider trading . |
| 9 | Sweat Jeans cost only £30 from BSCO stockists nationwide — call 081 451 2155 for details . |
| 10 | Woolwich Tabernacle , erected between 1895 and 1896 , sat 1,690 but cost only £13,936 for both the land and the building . |
| 11 | As the advert said , ‘ The average price of a tab of Ecstasy is £15 — yet Love Hearts cost only £4.95 for a packet of three — just one tenth of the designer drug equivalent . ’ |
| 12 | Taxi rides are cheapest in Portugal , where the cabbies charge only 18p for a one-mile city trip . |
| 13 | OPCS data record only 35% of deaths from liver disease in Wales as being alcohol related , yet in our district hospital sample 67% proved to be related to alcohol . |
| 14 | ‘ I would challenge Michael Fallon to withdraw his remarks and accept only 25pc of under fives are in nursery education . ’ |
| 15 | Some scholars are uneasy about this interpretation because the sign-groups give only approximations of words and can therefore be made into several different words : the sign-group ‘ po-lo ’ , for example , can be made to mean as many as eight different Greek words . |
| 16 | Similarly , it has been assumed that voters consider only alternatives in a small neighbourhood of the current position . |
| 17 | It is uncanny how many bites I get only seconds after casting or immediately following the bait being twitched along the bottom . |
| 18 | The figures for percentage sedentary people at the beginning of this chapter tell only part of the story . |
| 19 | However , these rules and formally laid down procedures tell only part of the story . |
| 20 | But the figures tell only part of the story . |
| 21 | They tell only part of the story , and leave out any elements which do not fit into their chosen line of argument . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most difficult problem to be coped with ( apart from grammar and syntax which are quite outside the scope of this book ) is that of semantic shift — the new meanings which Classical words acquired in medieval times , sometimes making them unintelligible to readers who remember only fragments of the language from their schooldays . |
| 23 | ( It is harder to see why γ should help α to resist a challenge by Β ) If the alternative strategies are ‘ resist only challenges to oneself , and ‘ resist any challenge ’ , the latter would be favoured by selection provided that it was usually advantageous . |
| 24 | I suppose it 's a craft in some ways , and certainly it is quite skilled , but I get bored with it sometimes , an–l only thinking of the use I 'll put those little black torpedoes to keeps me heaving and bending away . |
| 25 | WHY should pensioners living in ‘ sheltered ’ accommodation pay only £5 for TV licences ? |
| 26 | YOUR reader P Brown , of Norfolk , believes that pensioners who live in sheltered accommodation pay only £5 for their TV licences . |
| 27 | Members of these covens are usually ‘ nominal ’ witches who pay only lip-service to the dogmas and are interested in it only for the kicks it provides . |
| 28 | Such retrospective interests are not uncommon but often elicit only disdain from the youths who see clearly that their parents ' belated enthusiasm is a product purely of the tangible rewards sport brings along . |
| 29 | Angus reckoned that fast business expansion was absorbing all her time and energy , which was why he had decided to take things one step at a time and discuss only business over luncheon ; a business chat would avoid putting either of them in a rejecting position . |
| 30 | If you use only part of your agreed overdraft , you will pay interest only on the sum you have actually borrowed and not on the full amount agreed . |