Example sentences of "[noun sg] only [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 . |
| 2 | Although urban migration accelerated , it acted as a very inadequate safety valve : between 1880 and 1913 the proportion of the labour force working in agriculture only dropped from 74 to 72 per cent . |
| 3 | Where was that traditional British reserve only abandoned for cloying camaraderie under the influence of injuriously vast quantities of alcohol ? |
| 4 | They complained that they could not get loans from LEDU and if they did , the money only came after long delays . |
| 5 | The great advantage over owning a holiday home in the normal way is that the buyer only pays for one week instead of fifty-two . |
| 6 | One tall girl with curly hair only hitched for two minutes before a smiling family picked her up . |
| 7 | Home responsibilities protection only counts for full tax years , which is a disadvantage , since most of us do not arrange our lives from April to April . |
| 8 | The whole trial only continued for 12 days . |
| 9 | According to Eugen Dijmarescu , Minister of State for Economic Orientation , the state was paying out some 30,000 million lei per month in subsidies , while the population 's total monthly income only amounted to 26,000 million lei . |
| 10 | They led by 14 points at the break only to dry up three minutes from time when they were 58–42 ahead leaving Paul Carr to hit the last ten points of the game and be top scorer on 28 points . |
| 11 | Perhaps the greatest achievement of this approach was the prediction by Young and by Helmholtz ( in Mollon 1982 ) , in the nineteenth century , of the existence of three classes of colour-sensitive receptor in the retina , each sensitive to a different wavelength of light , a prediction only confirmed by direct measurement in the last thirty years ( Mollon 1982 ) . |
| 12 | The Social Democrats who have ruled the Land for many years , although in opposition in Bonn , emerged strengthened by the CDU 's defeat , although their own share of the vote only grew by 0.4 per cent to reach 42.9 per cent . |
| 13 | The validity of a local search result only lasts for two months , and if there is delay in finding a buyer , the search may be extended under the Local Search Validation Insurance Scheme . |
| 14 | With effect from 1 January 1993 this rule only applies to private customers . |
| 15 | At the same time , as Figure 6 shows , its PAS-score only fell from 98 to a still very healthy 80 , and well above the industry average . |
| 16 | St Helena Golf Club only opened in 1990 but has already staged county fixtures , a mark of its potential . |
| 17 | The law only applied to those born after 1990 , with the result that Harald 's son , Prince Haakon Magnus , remained heir to the throne even though he was younger than his sister , Princess Märtha Louise . |
| 18 | The law only holds under certain conditions : The temperature must be constant . |
| 19 | Of course , this test only applies to non-literal copying and the actual code remains fully protected against direct ( literal ) copying . |
| 20 | A four-year investor is looking for a 25 per cent return here , against a Japanese counterpart only asking for 7 per cent over 14 years . |
| 21 | Beetles and fungus only flourish in damp , poorly ventilated conditions . |
| 22 | It seemed that the caretaker only came on fine days , so they were alone in the house . |
| 23 | An appropriate conte for context for district wide plans is necessary because the approved structure plan only extends to nineteen ninety six . |
| 24 | The peo the machine only goes off bad if somebody has n't been maintaining it . |
| 25 | ( also refer to memo dated 3/2/92 — honorarium only granted in exceptional circumstances ) . |
| 26 | And this is one of the reasons for a fundamental element in the Benedictine tradition : the independence of each abbey from every other : an independence only mitigated in early days by the right of the bishop to visit — where the monastery had not asserted a right to be exempt from the bishop — and , from the thirteenth century on , by the formation of congregations of houses to establish some kind of common action , control and system of visitation . |
| 27 | Officials admit that the replanting of the hillsides is crucial for the success of the programme and yet the replanting only started in 1981 and seems a case of too little and too late . |
| 28 | But the pastor only came for one service every two weeks even then , in the war . ’ |
| 29 | " Those who have had the advantage of experience in such matters " , wrote Austen Layard , a contemporary of Wallace who had discovered the ancient city of Nineveh , " know that one of the results of fever is a considerable excitement of the brain , consequent audacity and no small additional loquacity only limited by physical debility . " |
| 30 | Maybe petty cash only came in fifties these days . |