Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marschalek ( 1983 ) has noted that children generally attend to only a portion of the information contained within a stimulus whereas adults include more dimensions as well as a consideration of structural aspects . |
| 2 | A plasmid is even smaller than a virus , and it normally consists of only a few genes . |
| 3 | At the other extreme , where males generally mate with only a single female , the sexes are much more similar in size and appearance . |
| 4 | The BBC 's Children 's Department , Newman felt , was still catering for only a small proportion of the nation 's youngsters : the ordered few for whom parents bought Look & Learn , The Eagle or maybe even Hotspur . |
| 5 | This debate , still pursued by only a few specialists , has profound philosophical and theological implications . |
| 6 | Many general practitioners , however , continue to offer low levels of supervision , and diabetic miniclinics are still offered in only a minority of practices . |
| 7 | This is in contrast to most potential anti-viral agents , whose action is usually restricted to only a few of the many different types of viral agents that cause disease . |
| 8 | Firm mobility usually accounts for only a small proportion of employment growth in any area , with most coming from existing or new indigenous firms ( Cross 1981 ; Watts 1981 ) . |
| 9 | Quick action is vital , since anyone who stops breathing can usually live for only a few minutes without help . |
| 10 | Relationship matters , formerly considered in only a limited way as ‘ discipline ’ , Discussing the relationships of the librarian with the users is one way of discussing the role of the librarian , a way that keeps the reader in the forefront of the issue . |
| 11 | Far from the hive , though , the person will probably escape with only a single sting , because the same alarm chemicals cause the other bees to return to the hive . |
| 12 | Weight loss was positively correlated with only the reduction of systolic blood pressure ( P<0.01 ) . |
| 13 | The easiest and cheapest way of doing this was to excavate an 800 metres long by one metre square trench within a section of the ELR 's former double-track roadbed , now occupied by only a single track . |
| 14 | Each cubicle was a treacherous no man 's land , now braved by only a few passengers seeking out the dozing heat of the restaurant car which , nearing the end of its journey , had little to offer . |
| 15 | Peking has so far agreed to only a quarter of legislators being directly elected by 1997 , and has condemned supporters of a full democracy . |
| 16 | INVESTORS , traders , bankers and managers often operate with only a partial model in mind about why they are doing whatever it is they are doing , and what principles lie behind it . |
| 17 | It is true that the text departs from the normal format of Scaevola 's digesta , in which his favourite expression secundum ea quae proponerentur is regularly followed by only a couple of words . |
| 18 | But though their name lives on in the region of Tuscany , the Etruscans actually survived for only a short period ; they were expelled from Rome by the Latins and then defeated at the battle of Aricia in 506BC . |
| 19 | While psychoanalysis itself is very expensive , time-consuming , not available on the National Health Service , and therefore practised on only a small number of people , its influence has been by no means confined to those directly benefiting from treatment . |