Example sentences of "[noun pl] only [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is clear that some collocations only exist in particular inflected forms [ Schuetze , forthcoming ] . |
| 2 | It seems all the more of a waste if those long , cold hours only result in stale fish . |
| 3 | Fortunately the two groups only met at one session . |
| 4 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 5 | Full closure of the eyes only occurs in two contexts : sleep and appeasement . |
| 6 | Concessions only apply to standard fares and not to fares that have already been discounted . |
| 7 | — some word senses only occur in specific expressions ; |
| 8 | But he was tiny now , his feet only reached to halfway across the seat , he was only about twelve inches tall . |
| 9 | Yet , in practice , students in Western countries only protest about these things if they can detect them in their own , or allied , cultures . |
| 10 | The report points out that the sector is highly diversified : worldwide , the 10 largest companies only account for one third of production , while in Europe a large number of small and medium sized firms operate alongside 15 or so multinationals . |
| 11 | Innate behaviour repertoires only change through natural selection over successive generations and , although their range of tolerance , their capacities , can be extended , their capability in responding to rapid day to day environmental shifts is clearly limited . |
| 12 | Under current national guidelines , parents are obliged to pay in full for transport if the school 's more than 3 miles miles away … subsidies only apply to denominational schools . |
| 13 | Second , we are sceptical about trade figures in general and , third , these figures only account for less than half Britain 's trade . ’ |
| 14 | It gave additional powers to local authorities with severe inner area problems and the provisions only applied to three types of designated districts . |
| 15 | The Transfer Regulations only apply to those persons employed by the vendor in the undertaking transferred by the vendor . |
| 16 | Regulation 5 provides that the Transfer Regulations only apply to those persons employed within the undertaking " at the time of transfer or immediately before it " . |
| 17 | Mr. Joseph Kasner , a director of the landlord , who later saw the interior of the premises , says that they were four-fifths empty , the goods only occupying about one-fifth of the premises . |
| 18 | Such businesses are not going to survive in the face of the pressure being applied by insurance companies to have their customers only deal with approved repairers , particularly when it is becoming harder and more expensive to become an approved repairer and then maintain one 's company as such . |
| 19 | I was even aware that they were leaving , but the interpretation of all their actions only filtered through some while later . |
| 20 | These comments only apply to modern dhurries and druggets ; older items have become quite collectable in recent years . |
| 21 | As can be seen by figure 1 , the number of households headed by women in Latin America and the Caribbean , accounts for 25 per cent of the region 's households , and in Africa 17 per cent , whilst those of the developed regions only account for 20 per cent . |
| 22 | Measures to remove biliary tract calculi can be considered , although from the present study benefit from such procedures only occurred in four of 16 patients and stones recurred in 12 of 12 . |
| 23 | They argued that hemispheric differences only emerge at later stages of processing beyond immediate registration . |
| 24 | The flowers only open during bright weather . |
| 25 | This is why vulnerability factors only become of causal significance when a severe event occurs or major difficulties exist . |
| 26 | It is noticeable that overgrowth cements only develop on biogenic carbonate grains , and do not form where the skeletal wall has been heavily bored by fungi or algae ( thus forming a ‘ micrite ’ envelope ) . |
| 27 | Many of the methods presented in later chapters only work with conjunctive concepts . |
| 28 | It is very easy to demonstrate a break between Palaeozoic life and Mesozoic life if Palaeozoic specialists only work on Palaeozoic fossils and if Mesozoic specialists only work on their Mesozoic descendants . |
| 29 | Everyone knows the councils only work from eight forty-five |