Example sentences of "only [adv] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten per cent of Britons profess to eating meat only rarely and nearly 50 per cent agreed that they much less than they used to . |
| 2 | And the result is that they can only rarely and briefly know spiritual delight . |
| 3 | We saw in Chapter 2 part of the process of " negotiating Creole " in a conversation between two British-born girls , one of whom used Creole extensively , the other only rarely and tokenistically . |
| 4 | Mrs Brocklebank had created a little nest for herself in the basement where she put her clothes and her big black handbag , from which she was only rarely and reluctantly parted , and where she tucked away any odds and ends it was better Brock at home did not see . |
| 5 | MUSIC : The Scouse pop scene produced a lot of bright new bands and artists , and this year readers nominated three names who have been flying the flag not only locally but nationally . |
| 6 | If conditions change only locally and temporarily then only individual differences will result , but , Darwin concludes , if conditions change overall and permanently then a new species will eventually be formed . |
| 7 | Observers reckon this will happen only slowly and probably more in industry-related jobs . |
| 8 | An aircraft accident investigation is a long , painstaking process in which the sometimes complicated sequence of events comes to light only slowly and frequently in the wrong order . |
| 9 | Details of the circumstances at Neill 's emerged only slowly and selectively , but the women apparently exacted a price for their support . |
| 10 | Kennedy 's record in domestic affairs was unimpressive ; he had moved only slowly and cautiously in disputed areas , especially civil rights . |
| 11 | Until the end of the nineteenth century , or even later , most foreign offices adapted their internal structures , for so many generations designed to meet demands which were entirely European , only slowly and reluctantly to cope with new problems which increasingly embraced the entire world . |
| 12 | Some critics argue that elite theorists were especially prominent in those West European countries , such as Italy and Germany , where liberal democracy was only weakly and recently established ( Lukács , 1948 ) . |
| 13 | The concept of integration as a process implies teaching strategies which will enable children with special needs to learn not only alongside but together with their classmates . |
| 14 | Similar constraints , many of them much more obvious , are routinely specified for most phonological variables ; for example / r/ is variably deleted in many dialects only pre-consonantally and word-finally . |
| 15 | Ill-prepared not only militarily but also politically , for on the eve of the actual declaration of war on Prussia , 18 July , he had to use all his personal influence to prevent a vote of no confidence in the Ministry being put forward in the Legislative Body , ‘ … an act which would be both highly unwise and unconstitutional in the present circumstances ’ . |
| 16 | People are not only physically but also psychologically isolated . |
| 17 | As the years pass the disease takes a heavier and heavier toll not only physically but also emotionally as it progresses through the group . |
| 18 | She had already met this young man , when he had last come to pay his rent , and found him startlingly different from the Welsh boys of her acquaintance — a big , silent boy with disillusioned , almond-shaped eyes sunk above high cheek bones , a boy who had stared unblinkingly at her until she had begun to blush with embarrassment , so that she had felt stripped , not only physically but mentally as well . |
| 19 | Not only physically and emotionally — but intellectually . |
| 20 | The green imperial pigeon , uniquely among birds , can unhitch its lower beak and expand its mouth not only vertically but horizontally and swallow a nutmeg that is slightly larger than its own head . |
| 21 | So it 's pretty , it 's pretty er er and in fact some of these , these flocks who were grazing at the er w where just above that er that limit only just but just slightly above it so , so but in fact i if the farmers er grazed their sheep er further down the hillside er then in fact the , the er er the level dropped very rapidly and the sheep were then erm so it was a , a commercial decision as to whether to keep your sheep up on the hills to , to eat radioactive grass and get the compensation or to graze your sheep further down and actually the , the lamb the , the , the lambs for , for , for for the market . |
| 22 | His room in Leeds was with a Mrs Hubble at 21 Ladysmith Road , and on the return journey he had stopped only once and again at the Merrie England . |
| 23 | Successive governments have been very careful to ensure that the benefits bought from a pension fund are taxed only once and strictly as deferred earned income . |
| 24 | A circular type known as Clava tombs can be found at the northern end of the Great Glen , many without an entrance , which would seem to signify that each was used only once and then sealed . |
| 25 | Melanie had tried to fill the bath from it only once and then it had exploded with such ferocity that the toothbrushes leapt and quivered in the rack and Uncle Philip 's toothglass had taken a suicide jump from the shelf and bounced on the floor , fortunately without breaking . |
| 26 | At the farthest end of the scale is the person who tries to improve his or her shape only once or twice a year , perhaps even less . |
| 27 | The arrival of a train would be a significant event , galvanizing a whole community into action perhaps only once or twice a day . |
| 28 | Many were Shadwell 's acquaintances , people he 'd met only once or twice . |
| 29 | This fact can be used to advantage by those who drink alcohol occasionally perhaps only once or twice a week on social occasions , and not every day . |
| 30 | Only once or twice did he ever become aroused enough for them to make love . |