Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] [noun] [vb past] only " in BNC.

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1 Among these 17 patients , five also had endoscopic biopsies ; two at first had false negative biopsy specimens with malignancy found only on subsequent biopsies one month and one year later .
2 A boat trip from Pensarn gave only small thornback and dogfish .
3 Trying to vamp a bunch of vagrant whales in the Pentland Firth in March armed only with a waterproof tannoy and a box of plain-wrapped tapes is not everyone 's idea of a good time .
4 If they had done so , the economy would have retained a much fuller utilization of capacity , which in turn would have increased the companies ' profits ( from 1957 to 1963 the capacity utilization rate in manufacturing averaged only 80.5 per cent , nearly 12 per cent less than the peak achieved in 1966 ) .
5 A Gallup Poll in August found only 31 per cent support for the United States with 49 per cent against .
6 Hodkinson , who lost his WBC world featherweight title to Mexican Goyo Bargas in April spoke only to give his address .
7 Another sample from the New Forest in England contained only bird remains .
8 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 .
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