Example sentences of "only give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many more recent innovations in costume have led to today 's all-over leotard and tights which has not only given dancers complete freedom of movement but has given choreographers freedom to design as they will without constricting rules and conventions . |
| 2 | Martin Pipe saddles Tel-Echo , who looked a promising prospect last season when only given two outings . |
| 3 | Exultation comes and goes , but here again for the while I suppose it has returned to me in preparation for that step back into the radiant arc of omnipotence which is only given on this earth to the narrator in or of a novel . |
| 4 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 5 | If you had only given me my wife and children : Dayenu ! ’ |
| 6 | Notice they are not only given a reason for observing , which , of course , gives their spectator role a frame through which to watch , but there is also a hint of some responsibility they might have to carry — a necessary engagement is then ensured . |
| 7 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 8 | views that hold a good life to be readily achievable only in certain well-defined types of social structure , or only in a society that works concertedly for the realization of certain higher human capacities and the suppression of baser ones , or only given certain types of economic relations among men . |
| 9 | It made the marketing of Palestinian goods inside Israel subject to a licence that in practice was only given for produce , like olives , which was not produced by Jews in commercial quantities . |
| 10 | I 've only given a hint of what you 'll get as a Hilton Club member . |
| 11 | These explanations were only given as answers to direct questions . |
| 12 | We may find that a particular reply which we had expected to be only given very occasionally looks as if it might well be much more prevalent than we had expected . |
| 13 | A man buys a razor and shaving cream and later returns saying you have only given him change for £5 instead of £10 . |
| 14 | Grants of any kind are usually only given for a proportion of the cost of the work to be done , but when necessary , local authorities can make loans for the balance , on which interest has to be paid . |
| 15 | In 1982 BBC1 's ‘ Nationwide ’ covered Gay News ' tenth birthday , but in general the sharp end of factual programming has only given space to gay issues when they impinge on heterosexual concerns . |
| 16 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 17 | The Home Office has previously only given national rape statistics and none on indecent assaults , fearing it would increase women 's worries . |
| 18 | Vincent had up to then only given vague hints about his relationship with Sien . |
| 19 | ( Why has he only given magic mushrooms four for euphoria , when Collis Brownes gets five ? ) |
| 20 | Although his jarred shoulder is improving , and he has been named in the side for Saturday , he is still only given a 50–50 chance of playing . |
| 21 | Our course makes no serious attempt to cover all areas that could reasonably come under the electronic publishing umbrella — database publishing , network information services , and ( perhaps more seriously ) CD-ROM publishing techniques are only given passing mentions . |
| 22 | These are only given to skilled people who contribute to the US economy . |
| 23 | There is no natural landing place , the seas are fierce , and permission to land is only given to groups who are have a suitable boat , and who are well provisioned , capable , and with a proven interest in an outdoor topic . |
| 24 | The following pattern is only given as a guide to what to do , so that you can adapt it to suit your own yarn and jumper pattern , if necessary . |
| 25 | It can have come about , in fact , only given human knowledge of relevant facts — presumably , of the ill-effects of in-breeding . |
| 26 | While many of these benefits are ‘ means-tested ’ , in other words are only given to people whose income is below a certain level , some , such as disability living allowance , are not dependent on how poor or how wealthy you are . |
| 27 | The full amount is only given to people whose income does not exceed £14,200 . |
| 28 | New technology and more international competition will eventually create more jobs than they destroy , as they have for the past two centuries , if they are only given a chance to work . |
| 29 | The name comes from the old Norse word meaning ‘ to gush ’ and was not only given to the township nearby , but got into the English language as a descriptive name for any jet of water . |
| 30 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |