Example sentences of "only [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public-sector contracts anyway only account for a small proportion of Olivetti 's sales , says Mr De Benedetti . |
| 2 | Although there are over 20 million individual shareholders in Japan they only account for a quarter of the total shares held . |
| 3 | Such bids are regularly submitted but only account for a very small amount of stock allotted . |
| 4 | Firstly , and obviously , we only branch on a variable required to be integer-valued . |
| 5 | ‘ The French , on the other hand , not only insist on a wide variety of fresh produce but demand that their chestnuts come from the Auvergne , their snails from Clermont , their frogs from Aurillac , capons from the Bresse , mutton from the Berry , asparagus from Lavris … . ’ |
| 6 | I only change into a fighter in the last ten minutes before I get into the ring . ’ |
| 7 | A region dominated by branch assembly facilities and devoid of senior decision-makers , in contrast , is likely not only suffer from a sense of remoteness from those who control its destiny , but will also tend to lack social diversity and cultural vitality . |
| 8 | well there the sort that you only want about a couple at a time at the most |
| 9 | Drake is only waterfowl with a drooping black crest , and is readily recognised , even at some distance , by strongly contrasted black upperparts and white flanks . |
| 10 | A dog — or better still — a gaggle of geese not only act as a deterrent to a prowler , but also provide an excellent ‘ alarm ’ . |
| 11 | To possess someone in the mind is to be saved from a brutal repudiation in reality , and instead to love the ethereal , which can neither disappoint nor satisfy , but only act as a goad . |
| 12 | Moreover , the higher taxes that are an inevitable counterpart of more government services not only act as a disincentive to saving and investment , but also " overload " the economy and crowd out opportunities for economic growth at the same time as the opening up of export markets and the defence of the home market is made ever more difficult by the inevitable inflation . |
| 13 | In principle , no , we only act in a consultative and advisory way . |
| 14 | Many landlords , usually those who own property as an investment , only let to a company rather than to an individual to avoid the tenant 's security of tenure offered by the Rent Acts . |
| 15 | According to Odent , fathers not only groan with a miscellany of aches and pains before , during and after the birth of a child , but also put on weight beforehand , then top it off with post-natal depression . |
| 16 | As the blades only meet at a single point when cutting , they retain their sharpness for a lifetime of use . |
| 17 | But , even if the records only stand for a couple of weeks , Kapil wants two Indians on top at the same time . |
| 18 | Their heroes reflect their psychological needs ; disappointed by the weak father , they not only look for a strong one but try to identify with men who fulfil at the same time infantile and sadistic fantasies , such as Che Guevara or Mao Tsetung … |
| 19 | The beautiful blooms only last for a day or two , but there 's a continuous succession from spring to autumn . |
| 20 | It is important to note that such courses only last for a MAXIMUM DURATION OF 12 MONTHS . |
| 21 | In 1986–7 , an NCT survey found 70 active milk banks ; now they only know of a handful . |
| 22 | It 's one thing to leave your children with a couple you know and trust , but quite another to have a man you only know through a babysitting circle look after your children for an evening . |
| 23 | These traces not only witness to a sad history , but also hint of glorious possibilities . |
| 24 | The general public might have been disappointed but they needed only refer to a contemporary poem then available : |
| 25 | Some efforts at literacy work have been made by church groups and by the government , but they only deal with a tiny fraction of the problem . |
| 26 | They only appeal to a few , and some people are repelled by them . |
| 27 | ‘ Things went through smoothly , ’ he says , ‘ But now the terms have changed and payments only continue for a year . ’ |
| 28 | It could , therefore , only operate as a ‘ movement of middle-class protest ’ . |
| 29 | They note that for a deviation Δ of 10 -11 the accumulated effect over a year would only amount to a relative velocity of 1 µm s -1 towards the Sun ! |
| 30 | This stands for Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering and erm under this scheme , a company erm can have a problem tackled by a research student working in a university and erm a supervisor , and indeed in this case , the input , the financial input , by the company may be quite small , may only amount to a few hundred pounds . |