Example sentences of "only [verb] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its latest figures show that on £1.2bn of business it only made £18m profit . |
| 2 | The problem is that the company has only limited ISDN capacity at the moment because of the way that it is implemented at telephone exchanges . |
| 3 | Adoption of EC Commission proposals would only grant copyright protection to those databases which involved intellectual and creative effort in their compilation . |
| 4 | This drug not only slows gut motility and decreases small bowel secretion , but also increases anal sphincter strength . |
| 5 | The control theory would only eliminate alcohol abuse if consumption were reduced to zero — an unrealistic proposition , as the prohibitionists in the United States found out earlier this century . |
| 6 | Schools can not only make crime prevention part of their curriculum by organising talks and projects , but can also help by allowing voluntary groups to use their facilities , especially those working with young people . |
| 7 | Equally , said Alison Fellows , we would only want Bordeaux wine from Bordeaux . |
| 8 | But fortunately , you know , we , we only got tail end of it , a bit of sleet . |
| 9 | In this regard , data on the helix-coil melting transition in single strands of DNA and RNA present an opportunity to study structure formation that benefits from base stacking interactions ( analogous to those found in the double stranded helix ) , but where hydrogen bonds play a minor role in structure stabilisation ( and then only involve ribose hydroxyl groups in single stranded RNA ) . |
| 10 | Only sleep stage deprivation experiments can answer the question whether one stage or another is more restorative , and these are discussed next . |
| 11 | You 'll only need Monday night off wo n't you ? |
| 12 | " I only want expert help , remember , and if you want to ride , just say the word , but do n't include it in the curriculum of the Moorlake Secretarial School . " |
| 13 | I only want ice cream , thanks |
| 14 | By the time the men put their " memorial " to the employers in November 1909 , the situation was acute : " Not only has hand composition been lately going over more and more to female labour , but the operating on the type-composing machines has also been practically monopolised by the same class of cheap labour , to the consequent injury of our members . " |
| 15 | Not only has Malvern College gone co-educational , but the girls are actually being allowed to play cricket . |
| 16 | The indemnity only covers market value claims as at the date of exchange . |
| 17 | The pronounced topside knuckle not only contains water ballast tanks , but also , by angling the top panel of the knuckle fairly sharply inboard , enables deck area and thus weight to be reduced . |
| 18 | The latter would not only include animal manure but also marl , sand , seaweed where available , ash , and a host of other materials , not all of which were beneficial . |
| 19 | The results of these latest trials indicate the continuing need for close cooperation between neurosurgeons , pathologists , and radiation oncologists in the management of cancers that metastasise to the brain , not only to provide biopsy material for histological diagnosis but also to carry out excisional surgery in appropriate cases . |
| 20 | Outputs from the catchment only cover sediment accumulation in the lake . |
| 21 | She , she 's there on Social Security which means she can only do part time education because if you 're on the Social Security you have to available to do a job |
| 22 | yes , so , so , that you can only do education part time . |
| 23 | Similarly , prostacyclin inhibited platelet aggregation on rabbit subendothelium but only prevented platelet adhesion at higher doses ( Higgs et al , 1978 ) . |
| 24 | These letters only receive priority treatment at the delivery office if that day 's deliveries have already left the office . |
| 25 | The Football League , for example , has only accepted shirt advertising and fu 11 commercial sponsorship in the last few years . |
| 26 | Hence , the use of a GIS with a GUI can only improve user productivity in ‘ use ’ factors , for example by increasing the speed of use and reducing errors , and may only help the user with a previously substantial knowledge of GIS . |
| 27 | So it seems that Laboulbeniales not only show host specificity and position-on-host specificity , but may also display sex-of-host specificity . |
| 28 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 29 | Only eats junk food . |
| 30 | Dr Wesnes said it was a well tested drug which only caused Alzheimer type symptoms when injected rather than being taken orally as a travel sickness remedy … |