Example sentences of "only [verb] [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The external assistance received was still far below the levels needed not only to implement the Sandinistas ' social policies but also to sustain the costs of destabilization and war . |
| 2 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 3 | The bitterness with which he attacks pastoral poetry implies a sense of loss : ‘ 'T IS all a gloomy , melancholy Scene , / Fit only to provoke the Muses ' Spleen ’ . |
| 4 | Looking for them in BMA House only emphasises the juniors ' ignorance of the enormous amount of work put in on their behalf by all sections of the profession . |
| 5 | Moran felt so outside their circle of concentration that he had to resort to tiptoeing into the room in an exaggerated parody of someone trying to enter unheard but his only audience was the boy , and that not often , and laughter only lifted the girls ' heads from their books for a forgotten moment . |
| 6 | ‘ But you have only used the cottagers ' convenience as an argument , ’ said Duncan . |
| 7 | And the effect was not only to strengthen the Reformers ' parliamentary position . |
| 8 | In tact , the women 's pleas for peace only intensify the men 's desire to fight , and to a sexual degree . |
| 9 | We only have the subjects ' external behavioural indicators ( verbal or non-verbal ) of their experiences and we have no way of validating these indicators . |