Example sentences of "[vb infin] only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the South Midlands and a few other areas where farm labourers could earn only a pittance crafts that employed mothers and daughters provided welcome extra income . |
| 2 | From this month on , junkies need make only a telephone call to exchange their used , possibly-AIDS bearing , needles for new clean ones , delivered free of charge . |
| 3 | ‘ Shush , Mamma , ’ Rosa had said , and then Sabina had come in again with the bird — it would make only a bite to eat . |
| 4 | Schemes for the unemployed , such as community work , might be helpful for those involved but would cover only a fraction of the three million people out of work , he said . |
| 5 | If this image were displayed using the methods described earlier it would lack very dark values ( 0–24 ) as well as medium to bright values ( 91–255 ) and would cover only the dark to medium grey range . |
| 6 | Their frustration that they would always remain only a mummy could be challenged . |
| 7 | The regulations will sometimes affect only a manufacturer ( e.g. where they govern design or composition ) . |
| 8 | Another testable restriction is that some variables will affect only the membership and wage equations directly . |
| 9 | The Committee can consider only a fraction of the instruments laid before Parliament . |
| 10 | At this point we shall consider only the alteration of one co-ordinate , the speaker co-ordinate . |
| 11 | One longs for more choice , for interpretations that are truly ‘ framed to the life of the words ’ ( to use Byrd 's phrase ) and not bland rehearsals of the notes , for performances that seek to move the listener rather than explore only the music 's sonorous surface . |
| 12 | Gassendi spoke of our not knowing the corpuscular nature of things , the ‘ inner shrines ’ of nature , but only their appearances ; similarly , the ‘ gazing countryman ’ , as Locke calls him , would know only the clock 's outer show , and not its internal mechanism . |
| 13 | You will need only a smear of oil for the face ; if you drench the skin , oil is liable to seep into your partners eyes . |
| 14 | It would need only a charge of the cavalry , or a shot fired over their heads , to set them off . |
| 15 | In most cases the answer will include only a fraction of the total . |
| 16 | Here I can sketch only a part of that answer — although , as might be expected after seven years , I can also now take it a little further . |
| 17 | otherwise , the camera should normally remain on the Member speaking until that Member has finished ; during Questions the director should show only the Member asking a Question and the Minister replying ; cut-away shots to show reactions would not normally be allowed , except shots of a member referred to by the Member speaking , and medium-angle shots are permitted to show both the Member who has the floor and another Member seeking to intervene ; |
| 18 | Each class is given a credit rating ( normally one credit per class , but some half-classes like Quantitative Methods or Computing , which are obligatory in the Business School , may carry only a half credit ) . |
| 19 | Many of the coaxial links in the ground today can carry only a handful of different channels at the same time . |
| 20 | The other EDC members would allocate only a proportion of their armed forces to the European army . |
| 21 | I always look forward to his waking up , he looks so antediluvian he makes me feel only a girl again . |
| 22 | Sometimes the mirroring may comprise only the note-order , or ( conversely ) the rhythmic structure set to different notes , so that it is not strictly speaking a palindrome . |
| 23 | Rupert Rosser , a villager and member of the GVPG , thinks a bypass would divert only a fraction of the traffic . |
| 24 | I would n't be surprised to learn that many people do now smoke only a quarter of their cigarettes on the bed when worried , simply because they have seen it so often in films . |
| 25 | At first it was behind Claypole Ridge , and I could see only the top of it , the smallest smudge . |
| 26 | Two wooden fences , two wire fences , and all lit as day , all covered by the watch-towers standing in each corner of the compound , and over the highest of the wooden fences he could see only the roof of the prison . |
| 27 | We can see only the end-product , and have to infer the vanished scaffolding . |
| 28 | Under the kitchen floor they built a brick-lined store , so cleverly concealed that anyone lifting the floorboards in a random search would see only the earth beneath . |
| 29 | THE law stipulates that on school days people under the age of 16 can work only a maximum of two hours . |
| 30 | When he thought back over it , as he lay on the bunk and water drips splattered every eleven seconds between his ankles , he could remember only a film of excitement that had wrapped him . |