Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] only [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if mutations reduce adult survival 16 times more than they reduce juvenile survival ( that is , v= 16 ) , a net mutation rate reduces juvenile and adult survival from their optimal values ( 0.945 , 0.505 ) to ( 0.866 , 0.155 ) ; if the mutations only affected adult survival , a mutation rate U 0.067 would reduce adult survival to zero . |
| 2 | In practice , however , failures are often forestalled by governments that fear systemic contagion from the collapse of credit institutions ; and the authorities only allow mergers between big firms where they are convinced that competition will not suffer . |
| 3 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 4 | The changes only take effect once you move back into the word processor . |
| 5 | Essentially , therefore , the provisions only had application to income falling within the first limb . |
| 6 | Nobody wants to fight and the police only make arrests if we telephone them ourselves to report trouble . |
| 7 | The holdalls only contained towels , shampoo and the ‘ action footwear ’ we 'd bought yesterday . |
| 8 | He says the victims only escaped injury because they cooperated with the robbers |
| 9 | Even then , the photographs only told part of the story . |
| 10 | In the first week of the forty-day share sale period , the unions only invested £871,000 , and two weeks before the closing date the total had only crept up to £927,500 . |
| 11 | The defendant who was employed as the manager of a bookmakers only met customers once ( if at all ) as most business was done by telephone and was of a credit nature . |