Example sentences of "only [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it was clear that the government had only joined as a last resort to try and solve the country 's economic problems . |
| 2 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 3 | However , I do n't see the point of fighting off one set of advances only to capitulate to the next . |
| 4 | Martin O'Neill only got to the eighth frame in his match against Mark Rowing . |
| 5 | He not only got through the first round but he reached the final again ! |
| 6 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 7 | Metaphorically , we can imagine theoretical astronomers breathing a sigh of relief and saying ‘ Oh , so the Sun is only shrinking by a tenth of a second of arc per century , not a full arc second after all . |
| 8 | After the decision in and which was only reported on the fifth of October of this year in the all England reports . |
| 9 | Tenor tree was only felled in the last ten years — and the stump can still be seen planted with pansies . |
| 10 | Amateur Champion Stephen Dundas was only named as the first reserve … |
| 11 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 12 | To add to these impressions of an electorate in a constant state of flux there were other polls showing that many voters only decided at the last minute how to vote . |
| 13 | In particular , the second H pylori pattern seems only related to the second and third patterns of contact , which are characterised by evident epithelial damage . |
| 14 | Economics ( and the fear of being bored witless for the third time in 10 days ) demanded that I , and my son , only got to the first two matches and watched from the Kop . |
| 15 | There 's another item of news , which erm , er Ron only got on the sixteenth August and it 's about the pre-congress pensioner 's march and rally , now the congress is held in Glasgow , so I think we were n't going to that one anyway , but it just giving details of erm the arrangements for the pensioner 's march which we usually have , we usually attend if it 's in the South anywhere , but that 's just for information . |
| 16 | Then John Gielgud opened in a Barrie play , but he had only got into the third act when the siren went . |
| 17 | For products that are expensive and only used sporadically an unattractive product may be chosen if it has an exceptional performance as its handling characteristics will ensure that it is only used as a last resort and not used casually when other cheaper products would suffice . |
| 18 | As for the famous stinging tail , it 's only used as a last resort . |
| 19 | She had very nearly done a cordon bleu cookery course after she had left school , only deciding at the last minute to reinvest her time and money in the boutique instead . |
| 20 | Its use in self-defence is entirely secondary and only employed as a last resort . |
| 21 | The snobbish distinction between art and craft only began in the eighteenth century amongst collectors who felt it necessary to describe creativity according to their social or monetary values . |
| 22 | What makes it even more sweet is the fact that they crapped on about us only getting to the 2nd round last year and how they were going to get to the final . |
| 23 | So desperate has the tribe 's situation become that the government Indian foundation FUNAI is attempting to contact all the remaining uncontacted Awa , an action it only takes as a last resort . |
| 24 | Described by the government as a Japanese cultural tradition , the consumption of whale meat only started after the second world war , when it filled a dietary gap . |
| 25 | Therefore the Supreme Court 's analysis of the case really only revolved around the second question presented to it , namely , conviction under the mail and wire fraud statutes . |
| 26 | If you put something like N H and then O H four well the convention is that when it 's a suffix stuff a subscript and a suffix below the line there and just after it , it only applies to the last element . |
| 27 | Yeah , but they only pay for the first one . |
| 28 | This should only happen as a last resort in exceptional circumstances and if it does , you should take legal advice as soon as possible . |
| 29 | In either case he does not run the risk of being left with the goods ; if he can not find a purchaser he can return them to X. The answer is that he is X 's agent if under the terms of his contract with X he has no right himself to buy the goods but can only sell to a third party , Weiner v. Harris ( 1910 C.A. ) . |
| 30 | The site , near modern Kerma , has been known since the 1920s but the city underneath has only emerged over the last ten years . |