Example sentences of "have only [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At position M the weight of investment in security1 is zero ( i.e. ) and the investor has concentrated his investment solely in the market portfolio ( where the investor has only invested in I to the extent of the share 's capitalization compared to that of the market as a whole ) . |
| 2 | The desire to understand the development of early Anglo-Saxon society as a specific contribution to the more general study of past human behaviour has only emerged in recent years . |
| 3 | The loose grouping , which has only met on two occasions , is known unofficially as HOG , the Hilton Object Group , after its inaugural meeting at the Boston Hilton last year . |
| 4 | Considerable investments have been made in equipment for DTP and publication graphics from 1989/90 to 1993/93 , but the staffing to take advantage of these systems has only increased by one half-post in the same time . |
| 5 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 6 | For the duration of a project stage the individual has only to look at one sheet of paper to see the position reached , moving directly to further specific information if and when necessary . |
| 7 | Although directors and officers ' liability insurance has been available in the UK since the 1930s , it has only come into wide use in the last few years . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd only gone to that debate because my wife was a steward . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , they investigated , and apparently it was quite easy , because it was a very distinctive typeface , which they 'd only used on one machine . |
| 10 | Nor are we told that , in 1981 , only eleven individuals in every thousand of the population were aged 85 or more , and that in the year 200 1 , their number will have only increased to seventeen per thousand . |
| 11 | After several public meetings to discuss plann-ing matters the bureaucracy were left confounded , much to the delight of the ratepayers who may have only attended for that reason ! |
| 12 | Pontypridd , whose lone cup final appearance in 1978–79 ended in an 18–12 defeat against Bridgend , were very much on their guard for the unexpected , having only scraped through 12–10 against renowned giantkillers Tondu in the previous round . |
| 13 | We 've only gone through six tapes today . |
| 14 | Grandma was really slagging her off were n't she Maureen Lipman , oh god , yeah , oh I do n't like her , she has too many programmes , I 've only seen about one |
| 15 | Underneath the screen up in the pie in the sky I mean that I mean I 've known that when you 've only got about that much where you should have that . |
| 16 | you must look at your lanes , you 've only got like two lanes have n't ya ? |
| 17 | I 've only got like two and three quarters |
| 18 | I 've only come across this with perception . |
| 19 | He had a pious sense of his own importance and had always thought all these acts were directed at him , from which he had only escaped by good luck . |
| 20 | Although less ‘ angry ’ than in its earlier incarnation , this time it was a Sounds ' single Of The Week — not a bad achievement for a band whose rise had only begun in earnest a little under a year ago . |
| 21 | Although less ‘ angry ’ than in its earlier incarnation , this time it was a Sounds ' single Of The Week — not a bad achievement for a band whose rise had only begun in earnest a little under a year ago . |
| 22 | One of the ironies of the 1980s is that while the East Coast main line started to take delivery of its second-generation 125mph equipment , the maximum speed of West Coast trains had only moved from 100 to 110mph . |
| 23 | The application of all facilities under the KJHG to children of foreign nationality is explicitly legalized where previous legislation had only referred to German young people and children . |
| 24 | In 1801 students enrolled in schools of all kinds numbered no more than one in a thousand , and by Nicholas 's death this figure had only risen to six . |
| 25 | Besides my mother 's whispered asides with their garnish of guilt , I had only brushed with two cancer sufferers in my life . |
| 26 | For social Darwinists like Herbert Spencer , evolutionary theory demonstrated scientifically what earlier social scientists had only grasped in moral terms . |
| 27 | His win/loss playing record for the year up to 23/3/92 was 20/3 , bettered only by one player , Perez Roldan , who had only played in one tournament , in Casablanca . |
| 28 | Whereas the national monthly output of iron-ore had sunk from 45.87 million pudy in 1913 to 0.98 by September 1922 , and cast-iron from 21.43 to 0.94 , flax yarn had only sunk from 0.236 to 0.104 . |
| 29 | She had only to hide at one of these places and wait , and they would all come along sooner or later . |
| 30 | So far he had only spoken to minor figures of the tragedy which befell Alexander III at Kinghorn . |