Example sentences of "only [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | does she agree that there 's something bizarre in er I certainly agree successful experiment it bringing to an end because it 's a successful experiment , er clearly the policy is only to continue with unsuccessful experiments . |
| 2 | Presumably most people 's dreams were not interpreted as being messages from the deities , as even Gilgamesh was only favoured with two or three of these in his lifetime . |
| 3 | Natural selection favours the habit in stickleback males because female sticklebacks will only mate with territorial males . |
| 4 | But you can make it different , George , if you 'll only cooperate with this television thing . |
| 5 | The long running saga over the Lurcher 's Gully ski development showed just how hard the developers will try and push into even the most sensitive areas — a battle that was only won with massive support and a sympathetic word in the ear of then Scottish Secretary Malcolm Rifkind . |
| 6 | Anil Kumble took four of the seven wickets to fall today and England could only quibble with one of them — when Graeme Hick looked to have been wrongly given out for 47 , caught off bat-and-pad at short leg . |
| 7 | Drake is only waterfowl with white head , black and white upperparts and rufous underparts : also has green patches on forehead and nape . |
| 8 | spots around nose and mouth ( but ‘ glue sniffers ’ rash only occurs with some glues , it is n't common , and may be acne ) |
| 9 | But a Churchill of whom I can only speak with deep affection is Randolph 's son , Winston . |
| 10 | In the open , ground , unconfined , horsetail becomes a permanent inhabitant , only eradicated with great difficulty . |
| 11 | He 's a sound jumper already and can only improve with more experience . |
| 12 | Also to the drivers , who not only drove with such care that the passengers were n't inconvenienced in any way , but also doubled as bike handlers to get the bikes on and off the trailer , inevitably a dirty job . |
| 13 | There was a shortage of Brownings , and his little flotilla of airborne cavaliers in their Supermarine Spitfire MK 1s , powered by 1,030 horsepower Merlin II engines , were only armed with four machine guns each . |
| 14 | This did n't matter so much for physiological or anatomical studies , where one could only work with small numbers of animals anyhow ; but for biochemistry , when larger numbers were needed , it made progress very slow . |
| 15 | DEC ( Digital ) will only work with educational institutions if the project is of advantage to the broader community and not just for the benefit of the school or college . |
| 16 | We could learn from the American experience of using the National Guard not only to help with civil disasters but also with drug enforcement , which are both areas in which we can not have too much help , provided that it is properly directed and properly trained . |
| 17 | The Government needs not only to help with after-school childcare but to put a proper amount of money into that service . |
| 18 | Deaf people even after they began to be educated , were thought only to deal with concrete information , to understand only the here-and-now . |
| 19 | They knew that the village police sergeant and constable were there not only to deal with ordinary crime but to report on any political activity in their district . |
| 20 | The principle underlying this treatment method is the certainty that the central nervous system is capable of recovering function despite being damaged : any lesion in the brain , such as a blood clot , only interferes with one part of the brain , while other parts of the brain , plus the spinal cord , are left undamaged . |
| 21 | They only mated with each other — the old ones went into mourning if a child dared to marry out . |
| 22 | For some reason she could only move with nightmarish sluggishness , while everyone around her tore past with dizzying speed . |
| 23 | Besides my mother 's whispered asides with their garnish of guilt , I had only brushed with two cancer sufferers in my life . |
| 24 | Less than two centuries ago , when the English Romantics saw the Alps they could only stare with wild surmise . |
| 25 | And in any case , I only deal with small domestic animals . ’ |
| 26 | Both sets of recommendations , unfortunately , only deal with structural changes , with reforms which will alter the balance between producer and consumer or between the ‘ right ’ and the ‘ left ’ . |
| 27 | Such businesses are not going to survive in the face of the pressure being applied by insurance companies to have their customers only deal with approved repairers , particularly when it is becoming harder and more expensive to become an approved repairer and then maintain one 's company as such . |
| 28 | For example in using traditional publishing as a model for electronic publishing , we may fail to encompass innovation , or to address issues and products that only emerge with new technology ( e.g. access to information , data protection , expert systems ) . |
| 29 | the employer is not only provided with maximum assurance that his competitors will make the same settlement that he does ; he is also assured that his competitors will be shut down … when he is shut down , so that he need not reckon on a permanent reduction in market share when calculating the costs of a strike . |
| 30 | The current SAG version only interoperates with OSI protocols . |