Example sentences of "only [vb -s] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Absorbing the few staff children only involves the school in small extra costs such as food and laundry . |
| 2 | It not only involves the user more demonstrably in the process and provides him or her with a visible record of the interview , but also begins to construct a historical picture of the older person . |
| 3 | The process of assessment , therefore , not only involves the recognition of a problem or issue , and the ability to identify and collect all the relevant information from a variety of sources . |
| 4 | The omission of a material fact only involves an offence where that fact was concealed with dishonest intention . |
| 5 | When correcting a question , it is not satisfactory to give without comment , a mark such as 10/20 ; this only irritates the student and leaves him/her to guess the reason for the loss of marks from the printed solutions ; and often the guess will be incorrect . |
| 6 | The Farm represent everything utterly obnoxious about this country , probably not their fault as they never had a decent education , but glorifying football thuggery , provincial mediocrity and small-minded plebbiness only encourages the pettiness of our current society . |
| 7 | He has a dyslexia type problem , which not only spoils the presentation and spelling of his work , but inhibits him from starting it . |
| 8 | The use of the word ‘ gender ’ not only denotes an emphasis on the social ( as opposed to biological ) attributes of women and men , but also indicates a recognition of the relationship between masculinity and femininity . |
| 9 | Once bitten twice shy , and a man only tackles a hell-cat once in his life . ’ |
| 10 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 11 | But , as Heydon says , judges attach little significance to the point and it really only plays a part if , as in Dickson 's case , one side refuses to adduce any evidence of reasonableness at all . |
| 12 | In other words , the cereal-packet image not only neglects the diversity of family forms at any one time , it also obscures the changes that all families go through . |
| 13 | Smith , on mess duty , did not go ; nor did Temple , who only rides the engine with the turntable ladder . |
| 14 | The wind must be blowing from them to you , since this not only minimises the noise you may inadvertently make but it prevents your scent blowing towards the rabbits and giving them advance warning that all 's not well . |
| 15 | Auerbach 's work not only discourages the enumeration of biographical detail , the reading of signs of dress , the interpretation of expression in relation to known biographical data of the portrait subject . |
| 16 | This type of clause usually only grants the right of suspension , as opposed to termination , where the seller can not deliver because of force majeure . |
| 17 | However , this only represents a proportion of the total wintering population , as other localities are known to attract substantial flocks ; for example , up to 250 have been recorded recently at Warnham Mill Pond and the Adur Levels , up to 300 at Pevensey Levels , up to 450 at Swanbourne Lake , and 500 in Lewes Brooks . |
| 18 | However , this is not unusual for this industry due to the long lead times involved and in fact only represents a recovery to 1988 levels . |
| 19 | It not only represents the profession towards the Institutions of the EC where it has made significant contributions , but is also the focal point for the discussion of matters of common interest to the profession throughout Europe . |
| 20 | Where lesser imaginations , like that of Charlotte M. Yonge , can be adequately described as ‘ products of their time ’ ( because , like mirrors , they reflect back to their world merely the domestic images they took from it ) , a vision as peculiar as Dickens 's not only transforms the actuality , but subtly alters the reader 's perception of it . |
| 21 | Our brain not only turns the image the right way up , but also adds a considerable amount of detail . |
| 22 | Since BBCBASIC(Z80) only skips the rest of the line when it encounters DEF , there is a danger that the remaining lines of a multi-line definition might be executed directly . |
| 23 | It not only imposes a duty to pay , but also sets up ( not necessarily in the same statute ) the machinery for collecting and distributing the money . |
| 24 | She only wants a home . ’ |
| 25 | Collins only wants a wife because he feels that in the eyes of society it is about time for him to be married and to have settled down in life . |
| 26 | Because you can tape like music , beginning music and then he can tape it , he only wants a couple of minutes beginning . |
| 27 | — Because he only wants the land , see . |
| 28 | He only wants the family there . |
| 29 | Upvc does n't rot , split or warp , it ca n't be attacked by insects , it does n't need painting , and only needs a wash down with detergent , and a rinse . |
| 30 | ‘ The weir will last a lifetime , ’ Nigel said , ‘ and the millpond only needs a bit of clearing out . ’ |