Example sentences of "only [vb pp] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan was to change vehicles on the outskirts of Habane then continue on to Kondese where hundreds of men , mostly ex-Security policemen loyal to Ngune , were waiting to launch a crushing offensive against Jamel Mobuto 's inept , and disorganized , government troops , many of whom had only joined up when the new regime was instated . |
| 2 | Financial constraints on investment were relatively unimportant and only developed subsequently as political concern with state enterprise deficits prompted efforts for greater commercialism . |
| 3 | The mistaken identification of some red dye , accidentally spilled on a window sill , as blood , led to a riot that was only broken up when the mob was charged by soldiers led by a cutlass-wielding town councillor on horseback . |
| 4 | In my view there was indeed an inconsistency here , though it was an inconsistency which Friedman only recognized implicitly when he started putting forward an alternative model , radically different from his accelerationist hypothesis , which denied any direct role for aggregate demand in influencing the level of employment . |
| 5 | The differences were only patched over when ministers heard during the meeting that Baker and Aziz would meet . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I feel I am ready for it although it has only come along because Stuart is injured . |
| 7 | After surgery patients were not routinely endoscoped and injection of varices was only carried out if and when bleeding occurred . |
| 8 | It has only polled more than 10,000 votes once in 30 years , when as the SDP/Liberal Alliance it benefited from the special by-election atmosphere . |
| 9 | Lapsing into silence , she sipped her now unwanted coffee and only looked up when he came to sit opposite her , a large plate of bacon and eggs before him . |
| 10 | She did not talk to Anna , only responded mildly when Anna spoke to her . |
| 11 | Thus , if the corporations in their study were divided into three groups depending on the size of their annual sales , then they calculated that those with sales over $1 billion constituted 42 per cent of all corporations but committed nearly three-quarters of not only all violations but all serious violations , whereas those small firms with sales with less than half a billion dollars constituted nearly one-third of firms analysed but only committed less than 10 per cent of all violations . |
| 12 | The road is only used briefly before the footpath branches off and upwards to the right , breasting a slope which is the highest point of the walk . |
| 13 | Gardens are only apportioned individually where there is a clear self-contained entity , such as a walled garden or , say , a rose garden laid out formally in front of a wing . |
| 14 | She 'd only pulled away because she knew what was happening was wrong , not because she had n't been enjoying it . |
| 15 | Some only found out when their supplier told them that they could no longer buy tetra unless they could certify that it was going to be used in a ‘ non-dispersive manner ’ — ie not as a solvent even in a closed system . |
| 16 | The news about him only arrived just as I was leaving . |
| 17 | The share price has only gone down because the market is generally down . |
| 18 | In these cases , letter string combinations are only ruled out if they do not occur in the sample source . |
| 19 | Clive Greenacre was not only put out when his agoraphobic wife started to express her anger about his callous behaviour , but also amazed by the sexual demands she then started to make on him . |
| 20 | In the report which played mainly on the results of the trade union studies information unit survey the survey was only taken shortly after we had commenced the new education system therefore the figures are not necessarily reflected today . |
| 21 | Many parents felt that their own contribution to the assessment was only taken seriously when it supported what the professionals were saying . |
| 22 | This trial was only started shortly before I left post and the results are not yet known . |
| 23 | The coming of new and dramatic types of treatment , however , only heightened rather than diminished the controversy over the old hospitals . |
| 24 | The players only calmed down after airport police boarded the plane at Edmonton . |
| 25 | As the efficiency of the detector was very low ( it was small and , they estimated , only recorded less than one in a million of any neutrons emitted by the cell ) , they counted neutrons at the cell for 50 hours . |
| 26 | It was in keeping with the determination of the man , and he 'd probably only held off because those bobbies had to be somewhere in the vicinity . |