Example sentences of "only [verb] [noun] in " 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 | He was in the grip of severe constipation and was only eating fruit in an effort to clear himself out . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One can only understand how things are in terms of concepts in the first place , so in a sense the concepts came first since natural conditions only gain significance in terms of the way one had learned to see them . |
| 8 | Only to support Bruce in what he said Mr Chairman , that it is absolutely essential that we do keep some money after to take advantage of five B. |
| 9 | He only became whole in becoming a legionnaire . |
| 10 | What we also see is a description of this underlying God which can only make sense in personal terms . |
| 11 | She 's told him trying to get her back may only make life in Pakistan more difficult for her . |
| 12 | On fixed frames , the weaver can only make rugs in sizes smaller than the inner dimensions of the frame ; adjustable frames allow one or more of the beams to be extended so that larger items can be woven . |
| 13 | Also in this category , but published for the first time in this volume , is the article Jackie And Just Seventeen which not only records changes in the content of girls ' magazines over the 80s ( since McRobbie 's original analysis of the late 70s , also included here ) but registers theoretical developments as well through its attention to the ways in which girls as readers both construct their own meanings and interact with the texts . |
| 14 | Indeed , the Big Six document admits as much — risk management by only accepting tasks in which the legal risks are acceptable . |
| 15 | As they are practised in the modern world , high-level teaching and research only make sense in institutions . |
| 16 | The sub-contractor only receives payment in direct relationship to his productivity , thus ’ no work , no earnings ’ . |
| 17 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 18 | Even if later generations of beam weapons could provide better shields against nuclear attack , they would probably only buy time in the arms race . |
| 19 | Previously they could only buy shares in Brazilian companies through Brazilian-administrated funds . |
| 20 | But a consultant says the infection only causes problems in one out of every 50,000 births , so screening every pregnant woman would n't be practical : |
| 21 | These and other findings discussed by Johnston and McClelland ( 1980 ) not only provide evidence in favour of their model of visual word-recognition , but also evidence against other types of model . |
| 22 | We not only provide practice in analysing experiences , but give students a glimpse of a more humane society and urge them to push back the boundaries that inhibit them . ’ |
| 23 | Cleveland 's game with Esh tomorrow night is not the only rearranged match in progress . |
| 24 | The civil power only has competence in matters regarding the effects of such marriages ’ ( Code of Canon Law 1917 : 1016 ) . |
| 25 | He figures Sun only has price in its corner and claimed Apollo users , the last of the die-hard zealots opposed to Sun on religious grounds , wo n't be budged simply on price . |
| 26 | The theory only has application in specific types of social structure , namely , those that are totemic in structure and matrilineal in descent , like some of the Australian aboriginal societies Freud used in his work . |
| 27 | Let us assume the client only has £70 in retirement and works pensions . |
| 28 | Each of the ‘ sentences ’ in the network only has meaning in terms of its relations to other sentences , and each of these sentences only has meaning in relation to others , and so on . |
| 29 | Each of the ‘ sentences ’ in the network only has meaning in terms of its relations to other sentences , and each of these sentences only has meaning in relation to others , and so on . |
| 30 | A communicative support system sounds a rather arid notion and so it is important to reiterate that it is embedded in a social relationship and only has meaning in such a flesh and blood context . |