Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] only [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was probably only at the mill for a brief period , and perhaps only occupied part of it . |
| 2 | I , she thought disconsolately , offer people packet biscuits if I 've remembered to buy any and generally only have paper napkins . |
| 3 | The first is called buffering , and really only makes difference on slower systems . |
| 4 | This ‘ death by bread alone ’ concept means that people in the West have lost sight of spiritual and eternal values and now only perceive material and temporal aims . |
| 5 | Sources of information may well be : hearsay ( which can be inaccurate ) ; articles in journals ( which are not usually followed up , making analyses of pay over time impossible ) ; and surveys by international management remuneration consultancies ( which can be expensive and often only contain data from their own members ) . |
| 6 | In this regard , data on the helix-coil melting transition in single strands of DNA and RNA present an opportunity to study structure formation that benefits from base stacking interactions ( analogous to those found in the double stranded helix ) , but where hydrogen bonds play a minor role in structure stabilisation ( and then only involve ribose hydroxyl groups in single stranded RNA ) . |