Example sentences of "[coord] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes forks would appear on the right and knives on the left ‘ sometimes ( Henry always felt this was Maisie 's way of telling people they were not welcome ) two knives or only a spoon . |
| 2 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 3 | The map of population shows the areas where there has been a loss of people — depopulation — or only a very small , less than average gain . |
| 4 | If the key elements of ‘ owlness ’ were absent , or only a few were present , the birds showed some curiosity about the dummy but were not stimulated to perform the full mobbing response . |
| 5 | Reintroduced foods should be fed in the morning , and again in the afternoon , if there was no reaction , or only a slight reaction , to the first feeding . |
| 6 | Sometimes perpetual debt is issued which carries interest at a relatively high rate for a number of years ( ‘ the primary period' ) , and then bears no further interest , or only a nominal amount . |
| 7 | We must have done because they talked , as we drove , of common friends we had had at that time , but I remembered none of them — or only a name , here and there . |
| 8 | We must be careful with this argument because it is sometimes based on anatomical studies that have used insensitive methods or only a partial consideration of the data . |
| 9 | Whether this perspective represents wisdom or only a curious anachronism today , it commands the scrutiny of a post-war generation in the West brought up to respect the limits of military power more than its utility . |
| 10 | In the " Old Rental " of 1682 certain properties were described as " Proper lands " and were " supposed " to be the benefaction of Sir Edmond ; according to the Goldsmiths ' records they were yielding only 56 13 4d a year between 1671 and 1720 , or only a little more than half as much again as the rent receivable two centuries earlier . |
| 11 | It is necessary by way of preface to emphasise that in no circumstances can in-house benefits give rise to no taxable benefit or only a small taxable benefit if that benefit is to be assessed on an average cost basis . |
| 12 | So if , for instance , you are reading the earliest Gideon books of John Creasey , stop at each fact that you feel inclined to take unto yourself and ask whether it is a reasonably timeless fact , or only a temporary one . |
| 13 | Very or only a little ? ’ |
| 14 | It is non-productive however , to treat only a kitchen , or only a canteen , as pest infestations occur in all parts of buildings . |
| 15 | But she did n't respond — at least she did n't do that ! — or only a little bit , only the very smallest bit , because it was so very sweet , so very exciting , so very much what she had always hoped a kiss might be , and if he believed it was what she wanted , why not let him think so ? |
| 16 | This may be because no solution , or only a temporary solution has been found , or because the desired solution has not yet been implemented . |
| 17 | depending on whether we take the " " mayden " " as a vocative ( i.e. " girl , I love no one more than thee " ) or as the object of the lost verb of line 14 , whereby the -clause becomes a restrictive relative clause ( " I love no maiden more than you … " [ but I might love some just as much or only a bit less ] ) . |
| 18 | Land which in 1947 had little development value , and therefore no claim or only a small claim on the fund , may at some future date acquire considerable development value . |
| 19 | Even when the lexemes are the same , they may be used very differently in address and reference ( see e.g. Beck , 1972 : 290ff for Tamil usage ) , or only a sub-set of the reference terms may be used in address . |
| 20 | Some of them took great satisfaction in provocative statements of their position : there is no such thing as law , they said , or law is only the prediction of what the courts will do or only a matter of what the judge ate for breakfast . |
| 21 | Inch loss from others varied according to their size but those with a 34–36 inch bust measurement either lost nothing at all or only an inch or an inch and a half . |
| 22 | Whether there was a direct organisation link between the Party and the unions ( Denmark , Norway and Sweden ) or only an informal relation ( Germany and Austria ) was only of secondary importance . |
| 23 | Those who have no or only an inadequate contributions record , and those who have exhausted their rights to Unemployment Benefit , can make a claim for means-tested Supplementary Benefit . |
| 24 | We asked Ruby whether the same was true for Australopithecus tanzaniensis , whether they actually had speech or only the capacity to be taught speech . |
| 25 | The easiest way to get a component " accepted " is to declare that it has no , or only the simplest , association with the rest of the machine . |
| 26 | Oh , I do n't take the older boys , or only the dimmer ones in the lower streams . |
| 27 | The St Petersburg mayor , Anatoly Sobchak , made an individual request for food aid from the EC on Sept. 16 , and Ivan Silayev , chair of the Interim Economic Council , had asked for between ECU5,000 million and 6,000 million in aid from the EC on Sept. 9 , although it was unclear whether this was on behalf of all the republics or only the Russian Federation . |
| 28 | That 's the , that 's the key point that and were making , that only you or only the dreamer can interpret their own dreams . |
| 29 | To signifies this relation of subsequence in virtue of its potential meaning of a movement from one point in time to another and has been seen to give rise to two clearly identifiable actual meanings according to whether the speaker conceives the whole movement which to is capable of signifying or only the initial part thereof . |
| 30 | That group is nor only the group which has supported the US-led intervention against Iraq , it is also the group which effectively controls Gulf oil production and Opec . |