Example sentences of "[vb -s] only [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
| 2 | Each produces only a few drops of nectar at a time . |
| 3 | Figure 6.3b shows yet another type of homoclinic orbit ; this one involves only the stationary points and C " . |
| 4 | Today the surface of the peat fens lies only a few feet above or below sea-level . |
| 5 | The village of Artagnan , indeed , lies only a few miles from Montaner , to the north-east ; and it was one of the seventeenth-century counts of this Artagnan whom Alex Andre pumas , once again , took and elevated into his fictional hero . |
| 6 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 7 | In polygamous monkeys each male has only a few females , but with species such as fur seals , the harems can be huge — up to one hundred females . |
| 8 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 9 | Lord Beaverbrook has only a few weeks to sort out his finances . |
| 10 | The infamous Berlin Wall now has only a few vestiges remaining . |
| 11 | Robyn has only the dimmest memories of the country of her birth , and has never had the opportunity to refresh or renew them , Professor Penrose 's characteristic response to any suggestion that the family should revisit Australia being a shudder . |
| 12 | Peter Shaffer has only the fondest memories of a performer who appears to have been a playwright 's delight . |
| 13 | The county-border area contains only a few villages with old English names like Potton , Tadlow , Wrestlingworth and Gamlingay . |
| 14 | For a given BFS , if we choose the so that whenever is basic , then ( 8.2 ) contains only the non-basic variables and we can deduce that is the objective-row coefficient of . |
| 15 | Where a departure affects only the corresponding amounts , the disclosures required by this abstract should be given for those corresponding amounts . |
| 16 | The drawing shows only the enclosing boxes for the comprising assemblies and parts in the highest , " machine " , level of the hierarchical structure . |
| 17 | A rifle through old issues of NME during the Baker era reveals only a few features here and there : his singles reviews columns remain legend in the NME office to this day , but Baker was never the interview machine that , say , Tony Parsons or Paul Morley were . |
| 18 | Setting up the tool requires only the two spanners provided as standard accessories . |
| 19 | It takes only a few minutes . |
| 20 | If the skin is healthy , it takes only a few minutes for the molecules to be absorbed ; much longer if the skin is congested or if there is much subcutaneous fat . |
| 21 | It takes only a few minutes down to the shore , and I stop by the pier where one or two herring gulls are sitting rather listlessly , and a couple of hooded crows are poking about on the beach . |
| 22 | This takes only a few minutes and should be done every few days . |
| 23 | It takes only a few minutes to carry out this simple exercise , but it will greatly improve your ability to recognise genuinely lost coins when your search head passes over them . |
| 24 | It seems only a few weeks ago , but is probably about a year , since I , through Points of View , had to draw attention to the Department of Transport 's annual statistics bulletin , The Allocation of Road Track Costs . |
| 25 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 26 | Styling like this deserves only the best materials and so Sub 4 have chosen fabric containing Atrex by Arova of Switzerland . |
| 27 | The Moon 's five-way does the following : position one is straightforward humbuckers ; position two coil taps both pickups , leaving just the outer coils operational ; position three activates only the inner coils ; position four gives you the humbuckers in parallel and five puts them out of phase . |
| 28 | If this helps only a few teachers it would still be one step towards our goal of all participants in classes joining the Society . |
| 29 | Comrade Chang , the cadre , speaks only a few phrases of English , but seems a very pleasant man . |
| 30 | May I quote in its entirety the sentence from which you extracted your sub-title : ‘ In order , on the one hand , to make use of the catalogue easier , and on the other , to keep certain material confidential to protect the artist 's name , image and market every work is accompanied by a caption which gives only the principal facts from the archival entries ’ This seems to me to be quite clear and explanatory of common practice in the writing of captions . |