Example sentences of "[verb] only [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But maybe this ideal state of inconstancy we advocate only makes for fitter participants in capitalism . |
| 2 | Finally the fact that a covenantor agrees only to sell to another who will accept a restraint is not in itself unreasoanble : Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Harper 's George ( Stourport ) Ltd [ 1968 ] AC 269 per Lord Reid . |
| 3 | Behaviourists , for example , want only to treat of overt behaviour as the data for psychological research and this is as much a theoretical specification of what , for them , is to count as data as experience and meaning are for non-behaviourists . |
| 4 | Calm waters only belong to stagnant pools , and there is nothing stagnant about the new Conservative Britain . ’ |
| 5 | At position M the weight of investment in security1 is zero ( i.e. ) and the investor has concentrated his investment solely in the market portfolio ( where the investor has only invested in I to the extent of the share 's capitalization compared to that of the market as a whole ) . |
| 6 | The desire to understand the development of early Anglo-Saxon society as a specific contribution to the more general study of past human behaviour has only emerged in recent years . |
| 7 | The loose grouping , which has only met on two occasions , is known unofficially as HOG , the Hilton Object Group , after its inaugural meeting at the Boston Hilton last year . |
| 8 | Considerable investments have been made in equipment for DTP and publication graphics from 1989/90 to 1993/93 , but the staffing to take advantage of these systems has only increased by one half-post in the same time . |
| 9 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 10 | For the duration of a project stage the individual has only to look at one sheet of paper to see the position reached , moving directly to further specific information if and when necessary . |
| 11 | Although directors and officers ' liability insurance has been available in the UK since the 1930s , it has only come into wide use in the last few years . |
| 12 | De Corpore contains only hints about these sciences , and their further development is in the other two parts of Hobbes 's Elements of Philosophy — De Homine and De Cive . |
| 13 | Deep sleep only troubled by noisy return of Mudskippers from ‘ The 361 Guppies ’ 30 minutes after closing time . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd only gone to that debate because my wife was a steward . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , they investigated , and apparently it was quite easy , because it was a very distinctive typeface , which they 'd only used on one machine . |
| 16 | Effectively the police budget only grew by 5.4 in 1991-92 over the previous year , in the face of inflation and pay awards running at 9.5 . ’ |
| 17 | Broad generic categories , then , seem only to lead to narrower subgeneric subcategories , though that in itself may be a useful exercise in classification . |
| 18 | No because the structure plan itself as approved only goes to nineteen ninety six . |
| 19 | This formulation would be acceptable if the analysis were to cover only perceiving by human beings . |
| 20 | Deaf people even after they began to be educated , were thought only to deal with concrete information , to understand only the here-and-now . |
| 21 | Er , so I 'll probably go down and see Dennis , get er a nut so I can get it level , cos it keeps only cutting on half of the side . |
| 22 | Many fewer people leave school at 16 than did when the examinations were introduced ; and more every year are being encouraged to stay at school or to leave only to go to sixth-form college , college of further education , or wherever else they may receive education that will lead to a higher accreditation . |
| 23 | Generally she finds only support from male paddlers to her on the water though when there is a separate ladies ' event at a rodeo it is not always taken seriously . |
| 24 | It was known that , if Sunderland lost their game , then Bristol and Coventry needed only to draw against each other in order to stay in the First Division . |
| 25 | Since the top judges only retire at seventy-five , the highest levels of the profession are something of a gerontocracy . |
| 26 | Nor are we told that , in 1981 , only eleven individuals in every thousand of the population were aged 85 or more , and that in the year 200 1 , their number will have only increased to seventeen per thousand . |
| 27 | After several public meetings to discuss plann-ing matters the bureaucracy were left confounded , much to the delight of the ratepayers who may have only attended for that reason ! |
| 28 | Pontypridd , whose lone cup final appearance in 1978–79 ended in an 18–12 defeat against Bridgend , were very much on their guard for the unexpected , having only scraped through 12–10 against renowned giantkillers Tondu in the previous round . |
| 29 | Progress only resumed in 1987 , when the two leaders succeeded , at last , in signing an INF treaty in Washington in December . |
| 30 | A TERRIBLE shock awaits many when they return to New York or London — their hard-won knowledge of Japanese business methods elicits only yawns in top-ranking Western firms . |