Example sentences of "[verb] only [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first local Amnesty groups ( the still-running Eltham and Hampstead among them ) were formed only months after the launch in May 1961 . |
| 2 | That perhaps was the biggest shock most of the journalists had expected to see only children near the line . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The follow up varied from 41 to 180 days , and because the trial was stopped only 48% of the patients were followed up for six months . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On April 25 the UNHCR said that it had received only $43,000,000 of the $238,500,000 it had requested as aid for Kurdish refugees . |
| 7 | A year later , having received only part of the sum owed to him , Edward III demanded and got more : all that he had been ceded in 1358 , to which were added Normandy , Maine , Anjou , and Touraine , also in full sovereignty . |
| 8 | Mozambique produces only 15% of the food it needs to keep its markets stocked ; theft is rife . |
| 9 | The knights engaged in close combat but the jousting was cancelled after the first few contests as the horses were unsure of their footing in the mud and consequently the inept efforts of the knights produced only laughter from the spectators . |
| 10 | As yet you are using only variations of the first fifty millesimal potency with which you began , and this way you derive the maximum benefit from each potency in turn . |
| 11 | For instance , using only components of the quartal chord D , G , C , F , we can move as follows , by abandoning the strict use of fourths without transposition , and using the notes in different groupings and in different registers : In spite of the abandoning of strict usages of harmony in fourths , it will be felt that in the above example the same harmonic mood persists throughout . |
| 12 | Voters are given only part of the story when making their decisions . |
| 13 | All the corporation has suggested so far is a vague road and landscaping scheme that would affect only part of the pub garden and car park . |
| 14 | Between Ulthuan and Naggaroth there can exist only war unto the death . |
| 15 | We shall consider only distortions in the next section . |
| 16 | He lives only yards from the store and fears there may be more . |
| 17 | He needs only 39% of the toss-up votes to claim a majority , compared with the 63% Bush requires . |
| 18 | To the extent that we isolate and concentrate on phonic rules we seem to encourage only awareness of the surface features of written language . |
| 19 | The needle rod is constrained to provide only motion in the vertical direction . |
| 20 | New refrigeration and air conditioning plants utilise HCFC22 refrigerant which has only 5% of the ozone depleting potential of other commonly-used CFCs . |
| 21 | Clearly to have the combination of an off bore sight capability for a a missile such as A S R A A M , the er advance short range air to air missile , the combination of the agility of the weapon and the flat platform together has been shown to be really needed , you ca n't have one without the other and that somebody who has only agility in the aircraft or agility in the in the weapon , will lose against somebody who has it in both . |
| 22 | Christie 's expected only £900,000 for the entire cargo . |
| 23 | The modern ceremony contains only vestiges of the original Latin in such phrases as in absentia , for candidates graduating in their absence and honoris causa , applied to honorary degrees . |
| 24 | Otherwise , the DC must be aborted and replaced by a number of other DCs , each of which covers only part of the original work required . |
| 25 | Otherwise , the DC must be aborted ( using option 2.7.0 ) and replaced by a number of other DCs , each of which covers only part of the original work required . |
| 26 | Otherwise , the DC must be aborted and replaced by a number of other DCs , each of which covers only part of the original work required . |
| 27 | If the practice had not done the efficient thing and had installed only part of the structure , to a value of £8,000 , it would have received 50 per cent . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | and Imperial , it does so with the clear intention of keeping only part of the business for its own portfolio and selling the rest to the highest bidder . |
| 30 | Germany has decided that 90% of the costs of cleaning sites in the eastern states should be split between state and federal governments ; the new owner should carry only 10% of the costs . |