Example sentences of "only [verb] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the road in Parliament in the late sixties , as Wilson , Castle and Crossman wore themselves out in the cause , as they saw it , of a more modern and socially just Britain , there sat in the Leader of the Opposition 's office a man who not only shared the Jenkins view of workload but was planning exactly what he would do about it if the electorate gave him his chance . |
| 2 | By laying down larger areas of copper track , you will not only make the copper foil pattern better able to adhere to the board , but you will speed up the etching time also . |
| 3 | Really she need only make the tongue loll a little and it could grace the pillars of any medieval church . |
| 4 | Clients came in at 45p plus , only to see the share price drop rapidly to 18p , although it did later recover . |
| 5 | A foolish general might surround his Pump Wagon with friendly units only to see the machine crunch through his own lines in the first turn ! |
| 6 | They raced onto the platform , followed a minute or two later by a panting Naseby , only to see the railway train , now bearing Miss Throgmorton , steaming slowly away , enveloping them in white smoke . |
| 7 | In Rulfo 's Pedro Páramo , likewise , the frustration that embitters the eponymous protagonist 's life and the dashing of illusions that is the pattern of existence as depicted in the novel , are symbolized by an episode in which young Pedro and his lover climb a hill and fly a kite in the shape of a bird , only to see the string break and the kite fall back to earth , and the novel as a whole is punctuated by recurrent images of rising and falling which reiterate the central theme of the thwarting of human hopes and aspirations . |
| 8 | There is evidence to suggest that the most successful projects are pioneered by ‘ champions ’ , who not only sponsor the project proposal in the first place but manage the implementation phase and often the early stages of fully-fledged operation . |
| 9 | Bernard and Laura 's attitudes were still coloured by the historical evolution of the business , manufacturing led , and believed their shops existed only to absorb the manufacturing capacity . |
| 10 | The CNAA 's provisional Committee for Art and Design was willing only to accept the Honours Associateship for a classified honours degree , and the Associateship for an unclassified degree . |
| 11 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 12 | It must never be lost sight of that the objective of an R&D project is not only to meet the target performance specification but , equally importantly , to produce and prove a design that can be manufactured efficiently and exploited profitably . |
| 13 | The Ukrainian authorities have appealed to the UN and national governments for assistance not only to dismantle the Chernobyl plant but to wind down the republic 's whole nuclear programme . |
| 14 | I only want the television page |
| 15 | It 's obvious that Jenner only used the insulin project to further his own work . ’ |
| 16 | He only used the ground floor as a café , anyway . |
| 17 | Not only has the hire purchase agreement on the Line been paid off a year early , but a new 50-year lease has just been signed with British Rail for Platforms three and four at Keighley Station , where K & WVR steam trains interchange with Regional Railways and the Metro Trains . |
| 18 | Cursing the Post Office and the weather in equal proportions , ‘ Buck ’ Buchanan slowly brought the aircraft around and with a considerable tailwind we headed back to Moose Jaw only to find the airport building deserted except for the night watchman huddled by his coal-oil heater with the mail-bags beside him . |
| 19 | I have been ‘ caught out ’ in the past by fitting a radiator blind in winter , only to find the engine overheat in a mild spell or when working the Land Rover very hard . |
| 20 | They arrived for the performance only to find the tape recorder would not work . |
| 21 | She retraced her steps just as swiftly , only to find the wastepaper basket had been emptied . |
| 22 | It 's in the process of providing one at Benson , and it only provided the Heyford site because it had done a deal with the City Council over land and that |
| 23 | However , a standard GUI can only translate the command structure into graphical cues and will still be a ‘ function-oriented ’ rather than a ‘ task-oriented ’ system . |
| 24 | The reduction of the horse 's anxiety through movement and calm handling , not only solved the bit problem for that day but also prevented the horse from establishing an undesirable form of behaviour to present on other occasions when it felt anxious . |
| 25 | Yet on the other hand , for the counsellor to be too conscious of saying the right thing at the right time in every situation represents a state of mind that can only hamper the counselling process . |
| 26 | Edward was not only to regain the Angevin inheritance in France , but also the coast of Picardy , the Counties of Guines and Boulogne , and suzerainty over Brittany . |
| 27 | Since Agrostis/Festuca swards only occur on the more fertile soils and are agriculturally more productive , heavy stocking not only alters the vegetation composition but reduces the grazing value . |
| 28 | It is obviously a wider term than motor vehicle as it not only embraces the term motor vehicle but includes a bicycle and other such contraptions which are not propelled by engines . |
| 29 | As the reception board can only show the accommodation position for one day , the conventional and density charts are still necessary for selling accommodation in advance . |
| 30 | ‘ I only hope the Christmas pudding is all right , ’ said Christine anxiously . |