Example sentences of "only [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 32 | The same procedure as Step 1 and Step 2 only using a quiet tone ( but not whispering ) . |
| 33 | actually made it in the charts using two Amigas but I 'm only using the one m one Amiga . |
| 34 | It is possible , though not mandatory , to record this version for user information only using the LAST-CHECKED-ISSUE keyword . |
| 35 | So I encourage people to play entire solos , only using chord tones , not using any approach notes or scale notes at all , but only using the three or four basic notes of whatever the chord is . |
| 36 | We have only examined the legal issues from a narrow perspective ( Walden 1993 ; Gränström 1993 ) , they could be the focus of a single seminar alone ( see Postscript , 317 ) . |
| 37 | Ceauşescu 's arrogance in presuming not only to treat the Soviet General-Secretary as a person on a par with himself , but also one without the necessary experience to speak with the full authority of a veteran revolutionary like himself undoubtedly aroused a mixture of irritation and amused contempt in Gorbachev . |
| 38 | ‘ Many farmers think it saves money only to treat the best cows in the herd — those which have had clinical mastitis or those with a known high cell-count . |
| 39 | Ford defended his action , pointing out that a protracted trial of the former President would serve only to continue the long agony of Watergate , and distract the United States and its people from more urgent matters . |
| 40 | For the first few trips outside , you should plan only to go a short way , so that the patient can get used to the distracting sights and sounds . |
| 41 | ICI claimed this was not harmful to residents in the area and they had only received a small number of complaints from people who had inhaled the gas . |
| 42 | We should remember that it was ill the employers " interests to claim that it was not worth providing women with a long training because they would waste it by leaving early ; while it was in the trade union 's interest to claim that women were incompetent because they had only received a short training . |
| 43 | This means that the ribber only knits every two rows , so the knitting has a single colour on the back instead of stripes . |
| 44 | Insurance may ONLY cover the current market value of your car , not what you paid for it . |
| 45 | Members heard financial bids made for City Challenge funding would only cover the hard engineering part of the anti-flood scheme at a cost of £800,000 . |
| 46 | MID-RANGE motorcycles may only cover the 25O-65Occ class , but there 's nothing average in the type and style of biking they offer . |
| 47 | Although he made a partial recovery in 1926 , he could only conduct the One-Year course at Wells , where he lived . |
| 48 | She would attend to those next for Cleg needed his boots for work , he only owned the one pair . |
| 49 | Most people can only influence the local and the familial , so if people are parochial it 's probably because they 're relatively powerless elsewhere . |
| 50 | Her ‘ traditional ’ primary education restricted her and she only became a professional journalist ( Echo February 4 ) . |
| 51 | Recording the electrical activity of single brain cells in mammals only became a viable proposition in the 1950s . |
| 52 | In its later stages , the conflict settled around two issues : ( a ) official information , which in modern conditions was of direct political interest to the State ; and ( b ) obscenity , which characteristically only became a major object of legislation in the nineteenth century , with the development of an effective popular market . |
| 53 | It only became a moot point because David was a meal ticket for so many people . |
| 54 | In fact , I only became a half decent painter after I got into art college . |
| 55 | It only became the grandest villa when Henry Pease bought it and began work . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | I only asked a polite question . ’ |
| 58 | You will only make a powerful enemy . |
| 59 | Non-executive directors can only make a limited contribution to a company given that they have little knowledge of its day-to-day working . ’ |
| 60 | If a bird pecks at these it will probably only make a small tear in the edge of the wing and the butterfly may then escape . |