Example sentences of "[vb infin] only [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 There is , however , no clear one-to-one relationship between discourse type and sender and receiver , and for many words denoting discourse type ( song , for example , or article ) we can make only the vaguest connections .
2 His description of the recovery of a Hunter over a Swiss airshow served as another graphic reminder that a performance should emphasize the aircraft 's character but should utilize only the established skills of the pilot — and should never require his super-human efforts to get out of a situation .
3 Here we can consider only the final versions .
4 This should need only a few turns
5 She could feel only a few twigs .
6 Soon the mist grew thicker and he could see only a few feet in front of him .
7 In the mist , Giles could see only a few feet ahead , so he moved very carefully .
8 On bad days it rains and the mist covers everything in silence — you can see only a few yards in front of you and , if you wander from the road , can easily get lost .
9 If the explanation of affinity is true , then it is possible that spermatozoa produced by a male hybrid would contain only the paternal chromosomes , and will therefore carry the Y sex chromosome , a donkey-Y in male mules and a horse-Y in male hinnies .
10 An observer at a distance from the black hole can measure only the outgoing particles , and he can not correlate them with those that fall into the hole because he can not observe them .
11 Disk Mirror is useful when copying large disks from one drive to another , especially over a network , as you can copy only the required directories .
12 The following exercise would take only a few minutes every day .
13 It would take only a few minutes to open a door , search out the riding boots and pour a little mercury over each spur . ’
14 Tidying your Windows Program Manager will take only a few minutes and might save hours of frustration in the future .
15 The pack emphasises that , for most smaller employers , assessments need take only a few minutes ' observation and the use of common sense .
16 Banks and financial institutions will be forced to buy privatisation certificates , but will gain only the dead twigs of the state sector .
17 Beetles , wasps , squirrels etc feed upon the leaves and acorns of the oak ; but a tree that weighs 100 tonnes may produce only a few tonnes of such provender each year .
18 Out of this maelstrom we can select only a few thinkers and those ideas which stand out in retrospect as marking out the major developments and as setting the scene for more recent times .
19 However , another potential source of inequality , ‘ cream skimming ’ , which arises with HMOs is removed since , unlike HMOs , DHAs are compulsorily responsible for all residents and thus can not select only the lower risks .
20 No doubt the offenders were heartened by the fact that if caught , they will serve only a few years .
21 Here we can mention only a few events which led to major therapeutic developments , and pass by much else which gave the clues and spurs for progress .
22 Susan , who lives in Sunderland , can walk only a few paces with a stick , has lost the use of an arm and has impaired eyesight .
23 So a microwave system would heat only the wet areas of cloth .
24 Yet again , a big , comparatively heavy bait such as a lobworm , on a clean bottom may require only a few inches , for the sheer weight of this bait means the bream has to position himself quite close to it for the suck to be effective .
25 A couple of years ago FAST would get only a few complaints about car boot sales a year .
26 Most people can usually recall only a few numbers when these have two figures in them .
27 The spores apparently can live only a few weeks at most in the environment ; infections have been induced experimentally by contact with spores from the insect 's surroundings , but this is probably a minor source of infection in nature .
28 The DCS200 uses rechargeables , which will last only a few hours per charge .
29 For example , the £750 million outstanding on credit cards might represent only a few weeks ' purchases .
30 We have not attempted a similar exercise for this Report : we felt that such samples needed very careful selection which would take time we could not afford , and that , unless samples were numerous and lengthy , they would inevitably illustrate only a few aspects .
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