Example sentences of "[conj] only [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wild plants growing well where never before seen , and growing very well where only found in small clumps . |
| 2 | Are they going to be your serviceable everyday sets or only used on special occasions ? |
| 3 | Forms which are not attached to the coast or only attached at one end seem to orientate themselves , some at right angles to the resultant like attached forms and some parallel to the resultant for reasons which remain uncertain . |
| 4 | And now they would be dancing , as we said , dancing right down , with the elegance and economy of movement that only exhaustion brings , the careful and expert moves that only come at that particular time in the morning . |
| 5 | All we need to do is to push microelectrodes into the regions to which the prestriate cortex projects and look for the cells that only respond to particular objects . |
| 6 | Whether government departments retain information that only exists in electronic form depends upon whether electronic documents are classed as ‘ official documents ’ . |
| 7 | Death was something that only happened to other people — except there was the ragged hole that the shadow-voices had opened up in her and Zulei was tearing at it and there was death behind . |
| 8 | The ‘ class between the virtuosi ’ was perhaps content with pianos , like those of Hofmann , with checks that only worked within certain limits . |
| 9 | For example in using traditional publishing as a model for electronic publishing , we may fail to encompass innovation , or to address issues and products that only emerge with new technology ( e.g. access to information , data protection , expert systems ) . |
| 10 | To keep up with the rapid advanced in computer technology , English for Computer Science — although only published in 1984 — has been completely revised and updated to contain up-to-the-minute information . |
| 11 | Perhaps most remarkable of all was that this system of government was based on a written Constitution , drawn up by a group of politicians at the end of the 18th century and only altered on rare occasions since ( there had been 19 Amendments to the Constitution by 1920 ) . |
| 12 | Thanks to the work of your moral forces , powered by the social change which always and only emerges through technological innovation , the future from which I come is not entirely uninhabitable . |
| 13 | A set of chambers in London may have as many as twenty pupils and only keep on two . |
| 14 | On the other hand , if you have lost your partner and like two branches of a tree , you had grown together in kindness and only lived for each other through thick and thin , then talk inwardly to your partner . |
| 15 | My story was that I was the orphaned son of my father 's long-lost younger brother , and only staying on occasional extended holidays on the island while I was passed from relative to relative and my future was decided . |
| 16 | What we can do is choose our friends and only listen to those whose opinion we totally respect . |
| 17 | In fact , the average household size remained between four and five throughout this period and only fell to three during the twentieth century ( Laslett , 1972b ; Wall , 1972 ) . |
| 18 | Tonight 's opponent is the unrated South African Lindi Memani , unbeaten in his last twelve fights and only defeated in three out of twenty four . |
| 19 | Initially these were missed on ultrasound , and only shown on careful computed tomography scanning as the fluid was not localised in the right upper quadrant . |
| 20 | This fell back to 51% at the beginning of the 1980s , and only recovered in 1989 . |
| 21 | There would be every justification for her to stay at home most of the time and only emerge on joint engagements with her husband . |
| 22 | The Reuss valley floor is comparatively wide and level for a considerable stretch south of Altdorf ( 447m , 1,466ft above sea level ) and only begins to narrow at Erstfeld ( 472m , 1,548ft ) , by which point the new motorway N2 has parted company with the old Gotthard road No 2 as well as the railway , having crossed to the west bank of the river . |
| 23 | First let's look at the ribber controls that we do n't use during most ribber knitting , which are set to their basic position and only changed on special occasions . |
| 24 | A good place for a separate cubicle is in a corner , because two of the necessary walls already exist , and only have to tiled . |
| 25 | However , the groups are poorly financed , too few in number , and only found in major cities . |
| 26 | This does not include the sales back-up staff but only refers to those who are active in the field , meeting customers fact to face on an organised and planned basis . |
| 27 | Yes , you could have sex there , in the toilets , but only according to certain rules . |
| 28 | Indeed , just as Berkeley 's immaterialism foreshadows the phenomenalist theory of perception developed by the so-called Logical Empiricists of this century , so his view , according to which the aim of science is not to provide explanations of nature 's regularities but only to arrive at concise and useful descriptions of them , foreshadows their instrumentalism . |
| 29 | Two forms of design right are proposed , one subject to registration , the other right being unregistered but only lasting for three years . |
| 30 | It is a deliberately confused image which works in close-up but only comes into real focus when viewed from far back . |