Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | J. Sainsbury , Britain 's biggest food retailer argues that discount shops have received only a temporary boost from the recession . |
| 2 | Of course , the historical analogy is not a completely valid one , for history only concerns the interactions within a single species during a few thousand years , in connection with which geological and climatological changes have played only a minor role ( as in the extinction of Carthage and of the Viking settlements in Greenland ) . |
| 3 | This particular setting is very authentic and the cadets have had only the company of sheep during their enthusiastic quest for insurgents . |
| 4 | In attempting to weight the relative importance of these individual variables some observers , despite the countervailing evidence , would maintain that on a world-wide basis economic forces have had only a limited influence in shaping bargaining structures ( Beaumont et al . , |
| 5 | Conservative Members have had only a fraction of the time in this debate . |
| 6 | During 13 years ' rule by the party of law and order the police have had only a five per cent increase in manpower . |
| 7 | It is true that Hannah 's work on occupational pension schemes suggests that large companies may have managed the retirement process in order to control their internal labour markets , but for most of the century such schemes have covered only a minority of workers . |