Example sentences of "only [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Postponing the necessary adjustment had , however , only made the ultimate adjustment harder , and the policy dilemmas sharper . |
| 2 | This time they killed Charlie 's father , which was a silly mistake because it only made the young fool sign up to fight the lot of them on his own . |
| 3 | That he himself happened to be a congenital cad only made the whole thing more difficult , not easier . |
| 4 | It did not prevent infection ; it only checked the later multiplication of the parasite after infection had taken place . |
| 5 | It only became the grandest villa when Henry Pease bought it and began work . |
| 6 | In that campaign , which he ended with a score of 221 , he also rode the fastest 100 by a jump jockey , smashed Jonjo O'Neill 's record seasonal total of 149 , and not only became the first man to ride 200 winners over jumps , but the first to do so under either code since Sir Gordon Richards did so on the Flat in 1952 . |
| 7 | You only got the same amount of money end of the week . |
| 8 | For example , Peat , Marwick and Mitchell ( 1980 ) from a study of ‘ need ’ in Dyfed in Wales , not only produced the stratified definition of ‘ need ’ shown in Table 6.3 but from a ‘ behavioural ’ study also produced the fourfold stratification of need shown below : |
| 9 | The establishment of the ‘ People 's Democracies ’ not only changed the social map of Europe but promoted Socialism 's prospects elsewhere . |
| 10 | The madrigal and its cognate forms not only embodied the musical spirit of the age in southern Europe but ultimately provided the basic vocabulary of a new , Humanist type of monody , of opera , and even of independent instrumental music . |
| 11 | To sort of make out s make sure you 've got this and that so you 're ready for the confinement and er But they only came the last minute when when they were the ma mams were expecting their babies . |
| 12 | The worst fact of 1987 was that without the Foot and Falklands factors , Labour only reduced the Tory lead from 5 to 3¾ million . |
| 13 | Theory to explain just why and how particular groups were influential in shaping public policy to their advantage was not well developed , and easy talk about the exertion of " pressure " — as if that said anything — only sidestepped the explanatory problem . |
| 14 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 15 | Ezra ha-kohen not only played the leading role in reordering the nation 's religious establishment ( re-establishment ) , but was almost certainly responsible for a great deal of the safeguarding and consolidation by which the scriptures have come down to us today . |
| 16 | Under the directorship of Sir Roy Strong , for example , the V&A not only mounted the well-attended exhibition of luxury artefacts by Fabergé , it also offered house space to Sir Terence Conran 's Boilerhouse project , a museum within a museum for the exhibition of contemporary consumer and industrial product design . |
| 17 | They really only showed the official part of today 's procession and cut it pretty speedily , in fact as the more alarmist banners started to come into view . |
| 18 | The rest of the team , panicking , tried to gallop free and only slewed the broken limber round . |
| 19 | Though they only opened the first supermarket in 1961 , there are over 40 today . |
| 20 | For example , Bracey ( 1958 ) in a study of 375 Somerset parishes found that , in general , the more remote and less well serviced parishes were those with the worst and most persistent depopulation , and findings like this only encouraged the further development of theories of settlement concentration in the 1960s although these can also be traced back as far as 1918 , when Peake ( 1918 ) advocated equally-spaced villages with populations of between 1,000 and 1,500 people . |
| 21 | A week later he not only informed the National Security Council of " basic " Anglo-American differences , but also added that " it was essential the US take [ these ] into account in the future " . |
| 22 | The sigh of the waves sounding up that chute only emphasised the genial security of the chamber . |
| 23 | Partial and full strikes , demonstrations , sit-ins , conventions … all these have in fact only constituted the outer layer of an inner mechanism of civilian rebellion . |
| 24 | In fact , Gloucester were lucky to get away with that as Tim Smith only slotted the equalising penalty in the last minute . |
| 25 | Anselm 's departure contributed nothing to the solution of his own problems ; it only benefited the royal treasury , to which the archiepiscopal revenues were now added . |
| 26 | The driver gunned the accelerator too hard in his anxiety and the car slid sideways , its rear wheels spinning as it tried to grip the tarmac , but only contacted the thin layer of overnight frost . |
| 27 | The chanting of the priests seemed to summon wings , though as Tallis skirted these Celtic shrines she could see nothing ; and only heard the raucous pleasure of the crow goddess . |
| 28 | Introduction of the transgenic TCR- β gene not only restored the total number of thymocytes to the levels of wild-type mice ( Fig. 2a ) , but allowed nearly complete transition of the large , IL-2R-positive , DN cells to the small , IL-2R-negative DP cells ( Fig. 2 b ) . |
| 29 | I only corrected the false impression he had of — " |
| 30 | Furthermore , the new technical and rational society not only dissolved the sacred order ; it disintegrated the communal order . |