Example sentences of "[coord] only [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they going to be your serviceable everyday sets or only used on special occasions ? |
| 2 | Forms which are not attached to the coast or only attached at one end seem to orientate themselves , some at right angles to the resultant like attached forms and some parallel to the resultant for reasons which remain uncertain . |
| 3 | Perhaps most remarkable of all was that this system of government was based on a written Constitution , drawn up by a group of politicians at the end of the 18th century and only altered on rare occasions since ( there had been 19 Amendments to the Constitution by 1920 ) . |
| 4 | Thanks to the work of your moral forces , powered by the social change which always and only emerges through technological innovation , the future from which I come is not entirely uninhabitable . |
| 5 | A set of chambers in London may have as many as twenty pupils and only keep on two . |
| 6 | On the other hand , if you have lost your partner and like two branches of a tree , you had grown together in kindness and only lived for each other through thick and thin , then talk inwardly to your partner . |
| 7 | My story was that I was the orphaned son of my father 's long-lost younger brother , and only staying on occasional extended holidays on the island while I was passed from relative to relative and my future was decided . |
| 8 | What we can do is choose our friends and only listen to those whose opinion we totally respect . |
| 9 | In fact , the average household size remained between four and five throughout this period and only fell to three during the twentieth century ( Laslett , 1972b ; Wall , 1972 ) . |
| 10 | Tonight 's opponent is the unrated South African Lindi Memani , unbeaten in his last twelve fights and only defeated in three out of twenty four . |
| 11 | Initially these were missed on ultrasound , and only shown on careful computed tomography scanning as the fluid was not localised in the right upper quadrant . |
| 12 | This fell back to 51% at the beginning of the 1980s , and only recovered in 1989 . |
| 13 | There would be every justification for her to stay at home most of the time and only emerge on joint engagements with her husband . |
| 14 | The Reuss valley floor is comparatively wide and level for a considerable stretch south of Altdorf ( 447m , 1,466ft above sea level ) and only begins to narrow at Erstfeld ( 472m , 1,548ft ) , by which point the new motorway N2 has parted company with the old Gotthard road No 2 as well as the railway , having crossed to the west bank of the river . |
| 15 | First let's look at the ribber controls that we do n't use during most ribber knitting , which are set to their basic position and only changed on special occasions . |
| 16 | A good place for a separate cubicle is in a corner , because two of the necessary walls already exist , and only have to tiled . |
| 17 | However , the groups are poorly financed , too few in number , and only found in major cities . |
| 18 | This does not include the sales back-up staff but only refers to those who are active in the field , meeting customers fact to face on an organised and planned basis . |
| 19 | Yes , you could have sex there , in the toilets , but only according to certain rules . |
| 20 | Indeed , just as Berkeley 's immaterialism foreshadows the phenomenalist theory of perception developed by the so-called Logical Empiricists of this century , so his view , according to which the aim of science is not to provide explanations of nature 's regularities but only to arrive at concise and useful descriptions of them , foreshadows their instrumentalism . |
| 21 | Two forms of design right are proposed , one subject to registration , the other right being unregistered but only lasting for three years . |
| 22 | It is a deliberately confused image which works in close-up but only comes into real focus when viewed from far back . |
| 23 | They were not silent but only spoke after long intervals and what they said did not carry to the upstairs rooms . |