Example sentences of "only [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I scoffed at such nonsense , and leapt up the beach , lanyard in hand , only to fall flat in the surf , as the waves turned sand from firm to quick . |
| 2 | As a long time drinker of real ale , who has only joined CAMRA in the last year , I found this belly-aching very annoying . |
| 3 | It has been SCOTVEC 's consistent view that centres can not only prepare students/trainees to the level of occupational competence , but can also model the requirements of the workplace . |
| 4 | In NLP it is important not only to implement solutions to the individual problems that arise ( parsing , semantic interpretation , reasoning , etc. ) but also to co-ordinate the application of those solutions . |
| 5 | Some sources claim she was derived from one of the old Welsh water-goddesses , others that she only haunts descendants of the more noble families . |
| 6 | She tried to make her voice heard above the general clamour and hurried forward , only to lose sight of her quarry in the crowd . |
| 7 | Many pilots plan on the basis that they have only to lose height from the final turn to the DH during the total inbound time . |
| 8 | He was in the grip of severe constipation and was only eating fruit in an effort to clear himself out . |
| 9 | After about thirty years with a genuine French landlord who only sold beer in half-pints , among his other idiosyncrasies , the brewery bowed to public opinion and renamed the place the French Pub . |
| 10 | Like all other unusual accomplishments , it only nears perfection after hours of determined practice : but once the technique is acquired , the potential for a stunning showpiece is obvious . |
| 11 | But their ideas had only limited influence on the way games were played and understood by the mass of manual workers . |
| 12 | motorist admits to not seeing boy who came from opposite pavement but accepted that motorist had only limited opportunity for seeing him . |
| 13 | That Emilia thought her a mere child revealed how little she understood ; but then Louisa herself had only limited comprehension of what remained dark and unspoken in this woman who studied her , almost coldly , summoning resolve . |
| 14 | ‘ The county council has only limited insurance for its schools simply because of the enormous premiums which would be required to provide comprehensive cover , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Until the 1950s , the news in daily papers had only limited competition from radio and virtually none from TV . |
| 16 | The Chancellor may decide to encourage greater use of diesel : however , he has only limited scope for any price differentiation between DERV and petrol , for since December diesel has actually been 10 pence per gallon more expensive than unleaded petrol . |
| 17 | This meant that actions to reduce emissions of sulphur dioxide within Brussels had only limited success in reducing smog levels and the city simply had to wait until the extensive smog bank drifted away or began to be dispersed . |
| 18 | In some cases , the majority of these precursor pollutants come from distant urban-industrial areas and consequently local emission reduction measures have only limited success in reducing smog levels . |
| 19 | Add to this the facts that each chief executive has only limited authority over many of his staff and that much of the finance of this complex body is handled by a separate company accountable to Parliament , and it might well be enough to make Lord Hanson heave or Tiny Rowland throw in the towel . |
| 20 | Compared with lifestyle and environment health services have only limited impact on life expectancy and health |
| 21 | Scattered around the London suburbs , or in provincial towns like Sheffield , Brighton and Bradford , these pioneers had only limited access to capital resources , and their companies never grew to any real size . |
| 22 | Pryce ( 1979 ) points out that , as a male , he ‘ had only limited access to the women for research purposes ’ . |
| 23 | The loss of the two ports was serious , as the English now had only limited access to Normandy and to the capital , Rouen , which had come to replace Paris . |
| 24 | Since the analyst has only limited access to what a speaker intended , or how sincerely he was behaving , in the production of a discourse fragment , any claims regarding the implicatures identified will have the status of interpretations . |
| 25 | For example , consider the monopolist discussed above and suppose that the firm 's executives wish to maximise profits , but have only limited information about the true revenue and cost functions . |
| 26 | They have theoretical knowledge and practical experience of language-teaching methods , but they lack knowledge of the methods and materials used to teach their native language as a foreign language in the UK , and have only limited familiarity with British secondary education — the school system , teacher and pupil roles and expectations , curricula , assessment and exams . |
| 27 | The speech therapist confirmed that Mr Y. had only limited understanding of what was happening to him . |
| 28 | In 1982 BBC1 's ‘ Nationwide ’ covered Gay News ' tenth birthday , but in general the sharp end of factual programming has only given space to gay issues when they impinge on heterosexual concerns . |
| 29 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 30 | She was wearing huge aviator glasses , designed to hide but only drawing attention to the palely perfect face , the unlipsticked mouth , the silvery blonde hair fine as maize silk , which was drawn back into the nape of her neck . |