Example sentences of "[adv] only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A better solution perhaps is to leave the pad out of the filter altogether only using it when necessary . |
| 2 | Amongst those who did give , education , health and general welfare came out as top recipients , but the top 200 corporate donors altogether only gave 150 million for all purposes — a trivial sum in comparison with any social spending total : 25 billion , say , on the NHS or education ( see Figure 9.1 ) . |
| 3 | So , always warm up thoroughly and remember , once you have an injury , pressing on only causes further damage . |
| 4 | Well , you might think that you have to re-input the camp on , but you do n't , the camp on only cancels itself if you choose to ignore it or if it matures . |
| 5 | Was he furious because she 'd led him on only to change her mind at the last minute ? |
| 6 | Such gains were effectively only taxed as and when a UK resident enjoyed a benefit ; hence arose the opportunity for a gross roll-up of gains , followed by the eventual distribution of all gains to a beneficiary on a tax holiday . |
| 7 | Like any CD-ROM system , it effectively only does one thing at a time . |
| 8 | The Salon , which had mostly only exhibited Berlin and German painters , put on exhibitions with an international character in 1891 and 1892 . |
| 9 | It is a word which is mostly only used when we discuss Hitler 's treatment of the Jews or when we consider Cambodia . |
| 10 | I produced sketches and a clay model for ideas , but these were eventually only used for reference when working on the sculpture . |
| 11 | Most only need a small angle of bank , as the rudders on gliders are not very powerful . |
| 12 | By phrasing control in these terms , the courts can preserve the impression that they are thereby only fulfilling the legislative will . |
| 13 | He made one as if he should try and comfort her , but turned away , walked upstage and on the balcony with his back to the audience , raised his arms widely only to drop them helplessly . |
| 14 | The rubrics in the 1662 Order for the Burial of the Dead only make mention of the ‘ corpse ’ or ‘ body ’ : ‘ The Priest and Clerks , meeting the Corpse at the entrance of the Church-yard … . ’ ; |
| 15 | The prevalent analyses of causation seem justifiably only to allow events and possibly agents as causes . |
| 16 | Using a bar code reader and a suitable computer system greatly speeds things up of course , and the books of codes are presumably only needed for reference and checking purposes . |
| 17 | First Parker put him clear only to see him miscontrol and allow Gunn to save — and then Gunn kept out his close-range diving header . |
| 18 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 19 | Their sensual lives consisted in picking up half-drunk girls in pubs and spending the night with them , perhaps only seeing them once or twice more , or never again . |
| 20 | Ghia trim heralds a huge list of goodies , but perhaps only to turn the attention away from the lacklustre dynamics . |
| 21 | We can perhaps only guess at what exactly lay behind such incidents , although these kinds of details begin to add up to something more than a fringe resentment of the police by a marginal ‘ criminal element ’ . |
| 22 | Brando is like a creature from a different world and time , a lumbering dinosaur who can perhaps only survive in post-modern MTV Hollywood as a kind of comic carnival turn . |
| 23 | The Byzantine church in question was dedicated to St Polyeuktos , an obscure Early Christian martyr ( who is perhaps only remembered nowadays as the subject of a tragedy by Pierre Corneill ) . |
| 24 | but he person who was shop steward for the finishing department more or less assumed responsibility for the other shop stewards because the other shop stewards would perhaps only have fifteen or twenty , you know members er under them . |
| 25 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 26 | It is this expectation which gives the work its edge and you will see a side of Peter Pan and the Ferry Girl which perhaps only exists in our darker moments . |
| 27 | Go back to the case and review critically the main characteristic symptoms eliminating those that are not strong , are vague , have perhaps only occurred once or twice and are not really important features of the illness . |
| 28 | Whereas-it was common in their own time for the Teddy Boys to be contrasted with a nostalgically remembered state of pre-existing harmony ‘ twenty years ago ’ or ‘ before the war ’ , given the real horror which greeted their arrival we can perhaps only marvel at the way in which the nostalgic trick of amnesia can now work in the Teds ' favour . |
| 29 | You 'll perhaps only say if you put out a thousand pounds , you 'll possibly get what three hundred pounds back or something like that ? |
| 30 | He was probably only at the mill for a brief period , and perhaps only occupied part of it . |