Example sentences of "only [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public-sector contracts anyway only account for a small proportion of Olivetti 's sales , says Mr De Benedetti . |
| 2 | Although there are over 20 million individual shareholders in Japan they only account for a quarter of the total shares held . |
| 3 | Such bids are regularly submitted but only account for a very small amount of stock allotted . |
| 4 | The irony is only compounded by the fact that in retrospect those trade figures turned out to be misleading and only a statistical ‘ blip ’ . |
| 5 | He has told April that I am insanely in love with him , and now they both hate me : he , because I have made it plain this is not the case , and she for much the same reason , only compounded by the fact that since he has raised the subject , and in view of his demeanour towards me … |
| 6 | The teamwork was superfluous , because the pilot was dead before the second burst hit him , his plane was on fire before the third burst cut it apart , and the fourth simply knocked sideways a wreck which had only to fall to the ground . |
| 7 | So the poor discarded animals are bounced down the road only to fall under a passing car . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've seen too many youngsters come into the game full of excitement only to fall by the wayside . |
| 9 | These next few pages are the reactions of one who went to the Centre , came away evangelical and kept saying to himself , ‘ All shipshape and Bristol fashion ’ , only to fall from the crest into the deepest trough , but thankfully to climb up again to a sensible plateau and finally discover that he had been fortified in more ways than he had expected . |
| 10 | He said it was clear that the government had only joined as a last resort to try and solve the country 's economic problems . |
| 11 | This fine-grained limestone is only developed over a very small area , usually thought of as a lagoonal deposit behind sponge reefs , though recently interpreted as deposits in offshore sediment traps . |
| 12 | But without proper government action , they only scratch at the problem . |
| 13 | So I can only build on the west side . |
| 14 | The black and white lists provide fairly clear guidance to the kinds of clauses which are and are not deemed to violate Article 85(1) , and firms interested in co-operating with each other need only build in an R&D element to their agreement and consult the white and black lists to remove the threat of antitrust action ( ‘ grey clauses ’ require notification , but will be deemed as exempted if the Commission does not reply within six months ) . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | The vast unclouded duck-egg-blue semi-circle of sky , like a protractor on the horizon , was only broken by the occasional windmill or fringe of acid-yellow poplars or milk-green gum trees . |
| 17 | Despite the recent legalization of homosexuality between consenting adults , in private , gay politics and gay life-style remained resolutely unnoticed even within the underground press — a silence only broken by the occasional tabloid expose . |
| 18 | The two smaller ‘ outlier ’ setts would have been completely destroyed by the planned construction work , and so were completely excavated , while the third was only excavated at the end to be affected by the construction . |
| 19 | It was only halted after a massive nationwide media campaign orchestrated by conservationists , but nearly every year Arizona congressional representatives push for a dam to be built at mile 238 , which would inundate most of the lower Grand Canyon . |
| 20 | The variations are virtually endless and are only limited by the imagination of the individual . |
| 21 | The range of chest exercises is really only limited by the equipment that is available . |
| 22 | Felt boards are very versatile , and they are only limited by the imagination of the teacher . |
| 23 | The number of phrases that can be used is only limited by the computer 's memory . |
| 24 | Its sensitivity is only limited by the number of RAM chips built into it . |
| 25 | PCR amplification is only limited by the number of available PCR machines and a single worker can easily produce between 300 to 900 templates per day . |
| 26 | In terms of regulations as to permitted forms of investment , investment trusts are only limited by the listing requirements of the Stock Exchange : |
| 27 | The colonial state was not only overdeveloped as a whole . |
| 28 | At the other end of the scale , romantic interest would only exist at a very superficial level , and certainly there would be no question of relationships forming between the TARDIS incumbents . |
| 29 | Therefore , high concentrations of soluble calcium can only exist at the relatively low pH of the proximal small intestine , or when no phosphate is present , as can be derived from the observed negative correlation between the logarithm of the solubility product of calcium phosphate and the pH of faecal water . |
| 30 | According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle this ‘ virtual ’ photon can only exist for a time . |