Example sentences of "[be] [adv] only [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cash-and-carry outlets usually deal in groceries , and many are open only to trade customers . |
| 2 | It would be perfectly reasonable to think of pitch as ranging instead from ‘ light ’ to ‘ heavy ’ , for example , or from ‘ left ’ to ‘ right ’ , and people who have difficulty in ‘ hearing ’ intonation patterns are generally only having difficulty in relating what they hear ( which is the same as what everyone else hears ) to this ‘ pseudo-spatial ’ representation . |
| 3 | The three main political parties were really only paying lip service to green matters and not tackling the underlying economic issues , said Dr. |
| 4 | Searching is limited to the use of the printed index , which is usually only to plant names . |
| 5 | ‘ While we would hope the money we are spending at the moment is proving to be cost-effective , at the end of the day electronic security is really only buying time , ’ said Mr Banks . |
| 6 | To be sure , surveys of readership ask some ( very basic ) questions about ITV viewing or ILR ( commercial radio ) listening , but this is really only paying lip-service to the existence of the inter-media problem . |
| 7 | she feels he is common , poor boy and he does n't even realise that Miss Havisham is actually only using Estella as a tool , a beautiful tool , to break men 's hearts and to get her revenge on the male sex . |
| 8 | If anyone spoke , it was usually only to voice condemnation of British Rail for the time it took to get served . |
| 9 | Before she died I was still only doing plays in garages wearing weird costumes . |
| 10 | He had retired last year and was now only doing concert work . |
| 11 | This is very brief and solely for the record , Chairman , at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry the City Council made one objection , and one objection only , in respect of sites , and that was a site that straddled the York Selby boundary , that was there only expressed concern on sites specific objection , one site in the entire plan . |