Example sentences of "[noun] only [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was made tiny by the three men standing around the bed , but Patrick only recognized the bearded Dan Brady . |
| 2 | The buyer only becomes the legal owner of registered land when the transfer is received by the Land Registry ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 3 | More than once Lina arranged the time and place of an interview , booked the plane , agreed the meals , models , set stylists and hairdressers only to find the whole thing suddenly cancelled . |
| 4 | For example , the private sector at present only provides a limited range of services and therefore no one would be able to opt out entirely from the NHS . |
| 5 | The water treatment polymers will open up new markets for FMC , which at present only has a small business in this field based on commodity chemicals . |
| 6 | The auction houses only offer a limited five-year guarantee ( this was first introduced by Sotheby 's in New York in September 1973 ) . |
| 7 | As mentioned above , income support only has an ordinary , and not a long-term rate . |
| 8 | For instance , although he borrows the concept of mood from linguistics , he recognizes from the outset that , in contrast to ordinary language , narrative only knows the indicative mood ( there is no imperative or subjunctive forms of narrative ) , and that if his use of the term is to have any value at all it must be ‘ stretched ’ and given a metaphorical function . |
| 9 | That he himself happened to be a congenital cad only made the whole thing more difficult , not easier . |
| 10 | Unfortunately these proposals only exemplify the muddled thinking which seems so often to lie at the heart of Edinburgh 's traffic policies . |
| 11 | In section 8.2 it was pointed out how for a simple single-section L-R or C-R filter comprising just one reactive component only reaches a maximum rate of fall-off outside the pass band of 20 dB per decade of frequency compared with an infinite rate of fall-off for an ideal filter . |
| 12 | Attendance at the careers convention once each year is not enough and will in any case only reach a small proportion of the school children who may be contemplating their future . |
| 13 | In fact , the defences and addictive attitudes described in the first chapter only illustrate the false ways in which we deal with ourselves . |
| 14 | Unlike the blue-tailed lizards , these snakes only have the bright colour on the underside of the tail-tip . |
| 15 | But the attempt to assure us that directors are controlled by their shareholders must fail , for no matter how far the law goes in strengthening the powers conferred upon shareholders to monitor the managers of their company the reality is that where each shareholder only holds a tiny proportion of the share capital of the company none of the shareholders will avail themselves of the powers given to them to monitor the management . |
| 16 | This political murder only aggravated the political divisions within France . |
| 17 | That photographic plates stored away uninspected at the end of an experiment only acquire a definite image when someone opens the drawer to have a look at them ? |
| 18 | The result is that the club only hits the top half of the ball sending it through the green illustration below ) . |
| 19 | And would it make much difference if the pact only covered a limited number of seats ? |
| 20 | Arguably , she is already on the screen so much that further appearances only supplement the passionate irritation which she provokes even among those who have voted for her . |
| 21 | He knew that those who are not parents only glimpse the awful forces at work . |
| 22 | But the associations only built an extra 14,500 homes in 1991 — not enough to keep pace with demand , according to Coun Dixon . |
| 23 | One coach only needs a small amount of work to restore it to its original condition , but the other requires extensive work . |
| 24 | Discovery then leads to a loss of self , not a confirmation of identity , and Slothrop 's fate only represents the characteristic direction of thy forces operating within the novel : to reduce human beings to ciphers , units , or commercial entities . |
| 25 | Apparently the mill only had a short working life as a corn mill , having been turned over to saw milling by the 1920s . |
| 26 | It may be that the child only recognises a particular picture in a particular book as an appropriate context for the word ‘ boat ’ ; or she may be able to recognise sailing boats but not canoes and motor boats . |
| 27 | Powell only has a remote chance of playing , for Reilly 's squad has retained its shape and strength . |
| 28 | As each hole in the glass joins to the next , water movement is claimed to be self-perpetuating but oxygen only reaches the outer surfaces . |
| 29 | The survey also shows that because of insufficient information on non-financial and external factors , directors only have a narrow view of the business on which to base strategic planning and control . |
| 30 | The third point is that the opponent 's fist only needs a slight deflection so you should n't need to make your action too pronounced . |