Example sentences of "[verb] only [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 6 he was dispatched to a school at Great Dunham kept by the rector , Richard Ransome , where he remained , enjoying only very brief holidays , until he went to Eton ; nor did he go home for all of his holidays . |
| 2 | ‘ Binge ’ diary Week 1 Decided to give up vomiting ; binged three times 2–3 Noticed that when stressed by children she turned to food and binged 4–5 Binged only once each week 6–7 Returned home and observed how she wanted to please her parents 8–9 On holiday , eating three meals a day — discovered she did not put on weight . |
| 3 | They are consequently able to flow only very short distances before they solidify . |
| 4 | Kuwait , with a capacity of 2,000,000 bpd before the Iraqi occupation and subsequent fire damage , was thought to be producing only about 500,000 bpd , but planned to increase its output to 900,000 bpd by June 1992 and to 1,500,000 bpd by the end of the year as most of its fire-damaged wells came back on stream . |
| 5 | Clearly , so long as ministerial assurances are honoured , rate-capping can deliver only very limited reductions in total local authority expenditure . |
| 6 | Individually the trusts were small , usually maintaining only about 20 miles of road , but as they were formed and linked , the basis for a coherent road network was being established . |
| 7 | Situated only about two miles from where the threshold of Heathrow 's runway 27L is today , Hanworth was once a fascinating place and home of all kinds of interesting flying machines , as well as a flying training school . |
| 8 | Although the Eleventh and Seventh armies in the Russian centre made only little immediate headway , in the north General Kaledin 's Eighth Army advanced farther than 16km/10mls along a 48-km/ 30-ml front . |
| 9 | The least coverage has been in the realm of news and current affairs , where until the recent AIDS and Clause 28 reportage gay stories have been given only very occasional attention . |
| 10 | There are a number of major organisations who make only very limited use of executive search and yet are successful on a worldwide basis . |
| 11 | For this reason we now sell only artificially cultivated bulbs and this is indicated on the packaging . |
| 12 | But world markets can absorb only so much coffee , copper and cotton , or for that matter T-shirts , motor-bikes and transistors . |
| 13 | In county cricket it is rare enough , happening only once last summer when Warwickshire played Hampshire in the NatWest semi-final and both teams had two Smiths on their side , but in Test cricket , the Christchurch match chalked up what looks like a first . |
| 14 | Later , Mr Roberts added : ‘ Employing only strictly contemporary documents and some extraordinarily painstaking historical scholarship , Charmley has disinterred and raked over every stratum of the Churchill myth . ’ |
| 15 | They can go into the furtherance of a chosen goal , and here something of the difference between the ‘ Mistress of the Beasts ’ and the male hunter can be glimpsed , for whereas a man may wrestle openly with every difficulty on the way , women can use more precision and grace , choosing moments with care , sensing the atmosphere , and employing only as much force as is necessary . |
| 16 | Moreover , from the annual and diurnal growth patterns of organisms , preserved as fossils , it has been established , for example , that about 380 Ma ago there were about 400 ‘ days ’ in the year and as the orbital period of the Earth is very unlikely to have changed the ‘ day ’ must then have contained only about 22 hours . |
| 17 | Subsequently , adult ewes harbour only very low populations of Ostertagia spp. except during the annual periparturient ( PPR ) . |
| 18 | This dish , suitable for a light lunch or supper , needs only freshly cooked vegetables or a salad of endive to accompany it . |
| 19 | In the first scene , where he has only marginally greater status than McKendrick ( his university is more prestigious ) , but where McKendrick is a stranger to him , he does not risk threatening McKendrick 's negative face ( the term used by Brown and Levinson ( 1978 ) for the individual 's desire not to have one 's freedom impinged upon by others ) by encroaching on his conversational space through interrupting . |
| 20 | Each of these farms has only about fifty inmates , under very light surveillance by unarmed staff . |
| 21 | Er it has been brought to my attention that the R S P B erm which I think you all know that , for one reason or another , can call upon the membership of eight hundred and seventy thousand individuals and our sport was something between two point five to three million active participants , slightly depending on the definition , has only about two percent as personal members of the R Y A contributing directly . |
| 22 | There is a real element of truth in it if we conclude , as I think we must , that in those who have failed to come to terms with the demands of a civilized existence any representative of that existence can be seen as an incitement to protest , especially if , as in the case of the police , that representative has only too obvious a. resemblance to the forbidding father of early childhood with whom the individual has not come to terms because of chronic irresolution of the Oedipal dilemma . |
| 23 | Once Univel softens up the marketplace and the marketplace protests that it has only so much money and ca n't possibly buy both NetWare and UnixWare , poof , Univel is integrated back into Novell . |
| 24 | The accuracy required is important in determining difficulty , the crucial factor being whether or not the acceptable range allows a whole number answer , one with a half or contains only more awkward decimals . |
| 25 | For a start , the brain of a bee contains only about 300,000 neurones . |
| 26 | An estimated 1,000,000 tonnes would go to Russia in return for oil , but would buy only about 1,500,000 tonnes , whereas , Castro stated , under previous Soviet agreements one tonne of sugar had bought 7.5 tonnes of oil . |
| 27 | As it turned out , he was interviewed only perfunctorily six months later , because events had moved fast in Germany and her neighbouring countries and to meet any threat to Britain , her allies , her interests and her Empire , the Services , particularly the Army , had more than doubled their manpower . |
| 28 | In fact it incorporates only very superficial observations . |
| 29 | According to a Moscow Radio World Service report on Feb. 25 the Cabinet was to consist of 55 members , compared with 69 members in the former Council of Ministers ( earlier reports had suggested that the Cabinet would include only around 15 ministers , plus the republican heads of government — see p. 37904 ) . |
| 30 | Despite living only about 10 minutes from each other , the two have not met for 50 years . |