Example sentences of "only [vb -s] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The market not only drives our product development but also our business culture . |
| 2 | just now , for instance , I could not sit & do nothing , since that only irritates my brain ; & it was then only my pipe that enabled me comfortably to read Rousseau 's ‘ Julie ; or the New Heloise ’ . |
| 3 | Indeed , the hero of the tale , Jean , son of the count of Dammartin , not only inherits his father 's French lordships but the earldom of Oxford as well . |
| 4 | This is particularly true of Gertrude who only wants her son to be happy , but her cheerfulness and pleadings with Hamlet only make the situation worse . |
| 5 | Convocation ( a requirement of the University 's constitution ) on the other hand only wants your friendship and to keep you in touch . |
| 6 | This not only reinforces our licence to operate in established areas but also supports our being welcomed to new areas where we are developing our business . |
| 7 | In describing the various features of this academic essay-writing register , we have stressed that the style you adopt not only places your essay in an established , conventional idiom , but also creates a clear impression of you and your attitudes towards your subject matter , as well as defining a specific relationship with your reader . |
| 8 | After this period the original owner not only forfeits his right to claim back his property ( revendication ) but the person in possession of the goods also becomes the lawful owner . |
| 9 | THE Poultry Association of Northern Ireland only holds its conference every other year . |
| 10 | The new Ripley not only has her romance — with Corporal Hicks ( Michael Biehn , from The Terminator ) but becomes a surrogate mother , of ‘ Newt ’ ( Carrie Henn ) , the colonized planet 's last survivor . |
| 11 | The elephant not only has its beginning in a single cell , a fertilized egg . |
| 12 | Not only has their home halved in value . |
| 13 | Not only has their home halved in value . |
| 14 | Freddie did not manage to keep us in the Cup against the powerful Rangers outfit but , usually playing at centre-forward , he steadily repaid that fee several times over during the first five post-war seasons , for not only has his tally of 48 League goals only been exceeded by six players here at The Palace since then , but his goals were scored in struggling Palace teams , which only once finished in the upper half of the League table . |
| 15 | And to ease my memory , to free from it some of the words , the phrases I had already written — precious seeds — I would walk and walk ; walk like a man without a camera , who only has his diary to record what he sees . |
| 16 | All of this amateur sociology only disguises their music ; dated , boring , yellow-back brands with little sparkle or shine . |
| 17 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 18 | But putting these accounts together does not unfortunately add up to a multi-dimensional model which could provide the basis for a general theory ; it only amplifies their essentialism . |
| 19 | The arthritis has affected her mobility and independence , which not only undermines her sense of her own ability , but also puts pressure on family members . |
| 20 | ‘ The Independent claims it has lost just 2pc , which not only undermines their submission to the OFT , but also indicates we may be expanding the market and attracting a number of lapsed broadsheet readers back to the fold . ’ |
| 21 | She only sees her husband once a year because he works in Outer Mongolia , so I feel my three month 's absence from home is not as bad as it might be . |
| 22 | Hawkins ' qualities in this sort of role were deployed again ln a film that brought together the American director John Ford and former Ealing writer T. E. B. Clarke , Gideon 's Day ( 1959 , Gideon of Scotland Yard in US ) , where he plays a slightly muddled police officer who , in true English fashion , only reveals his mettle under pressure . |
| 23 | Yet they have heard of this particular god , and what they have heard only increases their fear . |
| 24 | He discovers he has a talent for predicting the future , but ironically this privilege only increases his sense of the present . |
| 25 | The Black Sea only recycles its water once in every 140 years and it is estimated Turkish beaches will remain contaminated by waste for more than a century . |
| 26 | It will have been noted that , not content with imposing upon themselves the task of ruling through the tendering of advice , which might have been thought difficult enough , the British took upon themselves in Northern Nigeria the even more difficult task of ruling without actually appearing to rule at all — an undertaking whose very absurdity only emphasizes its interest . |
| 27 | Palmerston 's proposal that Scott can put any elevation on a given plan only shows his ignorance ; ‘ ground-plan and elevation , outside and inside , construction and ornament , must express each other ’ . |
| 28 | The weaving horse not only swings its head and neck , but also the front end of its body from side to side . |
| 29 | Television not only gets its news stories in the same way as newspapers , it gets most of its feature stories from the very tabloids it is so fond of attacking . |
| 30 | Only opens his mouth when essential . ’ |