Example sentences of "only [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The entrepreneurial characteristics of agency workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encourage agency working as an institution , can be likened to the entrepreneurial characteristics of self-employed , or labour only , subcontracting , building workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encouraged the growth of labour only subcontracting in the building industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s ( see Phelps Brown , 1968 ) . |
| 2 | These monographs are not only binding in the member countries , but also carry the force of law in the British Commonwealth and in former colonies of France , Spain and Belgium . |
| 3 | The 23-year-old Southampton player , ranked a lowly 176 in the world and only appearing in the tournament on the back of a wild card , rocked the world No 6 with 6–3 , 3–6 , 6–3 triumph . |
| 4 | The 23-year-old Southampton player , ranked a lowly 176 in the world and only appearing in the tournament on the back of a wild card , rocked the world No.6 with 6–3 3–6 6–3 triumph . |
| 5 | Fungus is rarely a primary invader of the fish , only occurring in the later stages of disease when fish are heavily infected by protozoa , flukes and bacteria . |
| 6 | is only looking in the mirror |
| 7 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |
| 8 | Giving away 6lbs , Reg Hollinshead 's colt lost nothing in defeat , only buckling in the shadow of the post , having been under heavy pressure from well over a furlong out . |
| 9 | But today he was only doodling in the margin , leaving the black and white diagram empty . |
| 10 | This may be one reason why ecological engineering was slow to reach Britain , and Scotland in particular , only arriving in the mid-1980s on a tide of environmental consciousness . |
| 11 | Annabel , who always excited more by her appearance than her standard of play , knew she would soon be going to the ball as Cinderella and she was only playing in the National Championships on a whim . |
| 12 | He did make the inevitable protest of the recently released prisoner : was he to be hounded wherever he went , just because of the recent trip ‘ abroad ’ , and surely that debt was paid in full and he could be allowed to start again in , of all places , his old home , which he was only visiting in the hope of finding where his parents had moved to ; to lose touch with his dear mother was not to be borne ; he needed to talk with his parents , to explain things to them , and ask for their forgiveness . |