Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] only [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he lives for only two things — the Royal Navy and the Ariadne . ’ |
| 2 | John Talbot lives for only two things — his daughter and his son . |
| 3 | Night netting can be carried out after dark around well stocked game covers with only minimal disturbance to the birds in places where both shooting and ferreting the rabbits would be far more of an interference . |
| 4 | If a BFS is non-degenerate , it corresponds to only one tableau and the fundamental theorem allows us to deduce that , if the BFS is efficient , then ( 9.8 ) is satisfied . |
| 5 | There is a tedious pounding at the heart of this music , a sincerity that allows for only one angle of delivery , a passion that has created a pop atmosphere in which it 's impossible to be clever , cool or cynical , a soul whose impulse is NOT to embrace the avant-garde , like Faustus , and be cut into a thousand pieces by a sampling machine . |
| 6 | This exercise depends on only one clue : you know that the clue word is some living creature . |
| 7 | Resale price maintenance now exists for only two commodities in the UK : over-the-counter medicines — and books . |
| 8 | It does not need a PRS licence as copyright exists for only 50 years . |
| 9 | In fact the Kalmar plant deals with only one stage of the production process , that of final assembly of the various components into the painted body . |
| 10 | ‘ Doubt succeeds in only contracting consciousness , sullying it with a turbulence of confusion . |
| 11 | It is significant that the unoccupied space in Hammerson 's portfolio amounts to only 8 p.c. , the bulk of which is overseas ; in the British portfolio , there is no significant level of empty properties , and most are well let to tenants of undoubted covenant . |
| 12 | This compares with only three species in the predator assemblage , with 66 per cent consisting of a single species . |
| 13 | Novy Mir today barely survives with only 100,000 subscribers . |
| 14 | Article 8 of each Convention had the same text , which survives with only minor drafting changes , in the text of the most recent Hague Convention on the topic , that on the Taking of Evidence Abroad of 1970 . |
| 15 | The reverse gradient applies for only one cause of death , malignant melanoma of the skin . |
| 16 | The best fitting second order polynomial accounts for only 0.056 percent of the variance in this case , no improvement on the fit given by a straight line ( r(46)=0.24 ) . |
| 17 | Avgas works out at abut twenty per cent cheaper there than the UK , but at around 34 litres per hour for a C172 or a AA5 , that accounts for only some £4 of the differential . |
| 18 | Even when the results of Studies 2 and 3 are combined the best fitting quadratic function accounts for only 0.096 percent of the total variance across these 60 points , scarcely an improvement on the 0.043 percent obtained from the simple linear correlation coefficient . |
| 19 | Introduced by the government for the first time in the Local Government Bill , the county consists of only two districts and is dominated by Cardiff which at the time contained ‘ just about the only pocket of Conservative Party strength in south Wales ’ ( Wond 1976 : 127 ) . |
| 20 | If the mail message consists of only one page , you will be taken straight to the Print/Retain/Delete prompt . |
| 21 | Suppose the money stock consists of only eight £1 notes , then what will be the velocity of circulation of the money stock during the week under consideration ? |
| 22 | Either , he finds ‘ time dragging terribly ’ and returns to work , or , he resists this urge , takes off to the seaside , wakes up one morning , says ‘ Twenty years retired , it seems like only five minutes , ’ and drops dead . |
| 23 | The following pattern applies to only one month and the rhythm is : . |
| 24 | The entity-type hyper-medium is in a 1 N relationship with pathitem indicating that each hyper-medium object can appear many times as a path item but that each path item refers to only one hyper-medium object . |
| 25 | This , however , caters for only one layer of the multilayered process of meaning construction , and , if a fuller account of such meaning is to be obtained , then some discussion of textual " coherence " is required . |
| 26 | If you are only interested in performing aerobatics on a casual basis and do n't want to make the investment involved in one of the more advanced helicopter radios , then one of the more generally available and cheaper — sets with only one idle-up switch can be used . |
| 27 | In cytRP , cAMP-CRP binds to only one CRP site ( CRP ) and CytR binds immediately downstream from the CRP site ( 8 ) . |
| 28 | The protein binds to only one strand of the PPT element and has little or no specificity for the double stranded DNA species . |
| 29 | The Ramsay show , previously in Edinburgh , enjoyed a huge success at the Festival , with unanimously enthusiastic reviews , and it reappears minus only three portraits at the NPG ; sadly , one of these is the grandiose ‘ George III ’ . |
| 30 | Life in the Balearic islands moves at only one pace — slow . |