Example sentences of "only [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American critic W. Stephen Bush reflected on how the poor and lowly had only been tolerated in the theatre and all too often forced up into the gallery , but the movies had ‘ emancipated the gallery ’ and had ‘ wiped out for ever the odium and ridicule ’ that had always been shown towards its clientele . |
| 2 | In her defence the artiste explained that this had only been caused by the persistent attention paid to her by mosquitoes that night . |
| 3 | The supposed decline in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere would explain why the air-breathing animals had only been created in the later stages of the earth 's history . |
| 4 | In Nucella , this has only been observed at the upper end of the scale . |
| 5 | Indeed , in extreme cases , it may be sensible to organise some form of help even before the nursing expert reports to avoid the argument that such help has only been obtained on the expert 's advice . |
| 6 | One thing was clear : he had certainly meant to kill him , and had only been stopped by the officer 's determined and intelligent fighting . |
| 7 | The correction for inflation has only been applied to the final sum . |
| 8 | This trend has only been strengthened with the enfranchisement of spending power in modern industrial societies . |
| 9 | This belief has only been strengthened in the post-war period when indeed the division of Europe and the division of Germany were in fact physically the same thing . |
| 10 | In education , the liberal optimism of the 1985 Swann Report has not only been punctured by the policies of Conservative governments and by the ideological counter-offensive of the New Right . |
| 11 | This species has only been recorded from the eastern Atlantic from SW . |
| 12 | O. aristata has only been recorded from the north-east Atlantic : from the Canary Islands north to SW . |
| 13 | This species has only been recorded from the tropical western Atlantic off Fernandina , Florida 486 m . |
| 14 | This species has only been recorded from the Bay of Biscay at a depth of 1226 m . |
| 15 | This species has only been recorded from the western Atlantic off the Georges Bank , off Cape cod 184 m . |
| 16 | O. troscheli has only been recorded from the western Atlantic ; from Bermuda 796 m . |
| 17 | Ophiolebes retecta has only been recorded from the Bay of Biscay at depths of 1410–2282 m . |
| 18 | O. globifera has only been recorded from the eastern Atlantic from the Bay of Biscay , Off NW . |
| 19 | A. abyssorum has only been recorded from the Eastern Atlantic and Davis Strait . |
| 20 | There have once again been reception problems with the radio signalling and sometimes the token has only been received in the back cab . |
| 21 | Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings . |
| 22 | Our interpretation is that gas-phase HNO 3 has by that time been sequestered in the condensed phase by heterogeneous reactions on polar stratospheric cloud surfaces , forming nitric acid trihydrate as temperatures fell below 196K in winter It is probable that a substantial fraction of nitric acid has not only been lost from the gas phase , but also removed from the stratosphere by the growth and subsequent sedimentation of aerosol particles . |
| 23 | Jack Hassard , an NILP member of Dungannon Council , condemned the ban on the Market Square meeting , which had only been notified by the police at twelve o'clock the previous night . |
| 24 | It is true that it has only been considered in the context of people of opposite sex ; but that may be primarily because its materialist aspect was developed to regulate the consequences of such unions . |
| 25 | However , Lanovoi , a proponent of radical economic reform , claimed that he had only been brought into the Cabinet four months previously [ see p. 38828 ] " to create an impression that renovation was under way " . |
| 26 | To all intents and purposes he was an attache with the Kenyan delegation at the United Nations and the only person outside UNACO who knew the truth was his wife , and even she had only been briefed in the vaguest possible terms . |
| 27 | Naturally , VI would rather sell X-Designer than enhance rival products , but in the US where X-Designer has only been sold for the past year , rival products have a much stronger hold and the separation of the Graph Widgets enables a toehold into these accounts for the VI sales force . |
| 28 | Praising Webster for his " integrity , effectiveness , and insight " , Bush stated that he had only been informed of the development on May 7 . |
| 29 | A. palmeri has only been found in the tropical western Atlantic in comparatively shallow water . |
| 30 | If the story of Edmund 's connection with Swegen 's death does date from Cnut 's time , it is interesting , and seems to hint at one of the most resented aspects of Danish rule , that Edmund , like Ælfheah , had not only been martyred by the Danes , he had also refused to give them money . |