Example sentences of "[vb -s] only [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gael , who is not religious , holds only with the first half of the double limerick according to which existence depends on being the object of another 's perception . |
| 2 | The simple end-product arrives only at the fifth attempt . |
| 3 | The change in depends only on the second derivatives at x , and so these derivatives must embody the curvature information . |
| 4 | On the other side of the energy account book is the surface energy , 2 G.l , which is needed to form the new surfaces and clearly this increases only as the first power of the depth of the crack . |
| 5 | It deals only with the first stage . |
| 6 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 7 | One ‘ sweetener ’ , deliberately leaked beforehand , is likely to be the widening of the 20 per cent income tax , which currently applies only to the first £2,000 of taxable income . |
| 8 | Somewhat surprisingly , given the avowed centrality of curriculum development in the project , " linking the centre closely to the curriculum of the school " appears only as the last in a long list of implementation steps . |
| 9 | In the sonnet following the I appears only in the last line : ‘ And so of you , beauteous and lovely youth , /When that shall vade , my verse distils your truth . ’ |
| 10 | We do not know , however , how old Lettaford is ( the oldest longhouse dates only to the sixteenth century ) or what its earlier arrangements were . |
| 11 | Individual property owners in cities have long had to conform to legal controls , but planning as a more widespread activity dates only from the mid-twentieth century ( Hall 1982 ) . |
| 12 | Mass movement of women into the work-force dates only from the Second World War — especially from 1960 — and the improvement of women 's wage rates relative to men 's happened only since 1970 . |
| 13 | State intervention in rural manufacturing really dates only from the Second World War , after the report of the Scott Committee in 1942 assessed the advantages and disadvantages that would result from rural industrialization . |
| 14 | Her warlike appearance dates only from the next century and is very much a creation of the Restoration court , where she was developed as a symbol of the victory of the British in the Dutch Wars . |