Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [conj] [pron] [be] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the separation theorem holds that there are only two portfolios in equilibrium ; the first composed of n risky assets and the second composed of the risk-free asset . |
| 2 | This practice dictates that there is only so much money available and so meeting needs , and therefore needs themselves , must fit within financial constraints . |
| 3 | After her death , he carried out research showing that there were only two fatal cases in the world , both in the US , directly related to the drug . |
| 4 | Now moving on a little bit further , I know the talk said that I was only going up to er to , but I 'm just going a little bit further . |
| 5 | This line of thinking presupposes that there is only one kind of power . |
| 6 | The Saturday Review said that there were only four entries that it deemed to be good enough to be designated Gothic , but Clarke 's catalogue listed a further fourteen Gothic schemes . |
| 7 | She then sought a fair rent , which she could only do if she were a tenant , but Mr Street of course argued that she was only a licensee . |
| 8 | Catt accepts that it was only a minor detail in her boyfriend 's sacking but feels it has a relevance . |
| 9 | The Uthwatt Committee noted that there were only three cases in which betterment had actually been paid under the Planning Acts , and all these were before the 1932 Act introduced a provision for the deferment of payment until the increased value had actually been realised either by sale or lease or by change of use . |
| 10 | In January 1922 the Smolensk party committee estimated that there was only enough fuel of all kinds left for seven to eight days ' consumption . |
| 11 | Although Roll and Ross have subsequently identified 4 factors , 19 it is more convenient for the purposes of exposition to assume that there are only 2 as follows : . |
| 12 | John Galloway at the Cancer Research Campaign feels that there are only two relevant questions : has he got any money , and does he have any teeth ? |
| 13 | Current intelligence suggested that there were only two missile-bearing submarines of the Juliette class operating in the area , although there was no information as to their exact complement of SAMs . |
| 14 | Once he had settled into the right-back position he was impossible to move from the Palace first team ( unless illness or injury intervened , and the career chart shows that there was only one season when that happened to any serious degree ) , and he appeared there regularly until the 1st World War brought an end to competitive football and threw everyone 's affairs into confusion . |
| 15 | Such a process is essential to help a team to mature because it is only through reflection that a team can emerge from the forming and storming stages . |
| 16 | AMNESTY regrets that it is only able to send full English transcripts of replies to members who write in requesting one ( accompanied by SAE ) . |
| 17 | My husband died when he was only 33 , and unfortunately we never had time to have children . |
| 18 | Until recently , competitors only had one chance to win because it was only open to men in their first year after indenture to the Company of Watermen and Lightermen — so winning the buckled shoes , white stockings , silver badge and scull cap which complete the scarlet raiment is no mean feat . |
| 19 | So we were late in returning , and night fell when we were only half-way home . |
| 20 | At one time , my right hon. Friend thought that there were only 500 , whereas I believed that there were 1,000 . |
| 21 | We talked about how fast you can make a 1.1 MkII Escort run when it 's only firing on three cylinders and how to make it run on three cylinders when it wants to run on just two . |
| 22 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it was only by a consistent and credible policy of multilateral disarmament that the collapse of communism was eventually assured ? |
| 23 | Further questioning revealed that he was only able to sell the artefacts in Gibraltar because they had been found illegally on a site in Spain . |
| 24 | We can speculate that there is a psychological motive for this switch , with Adele using a change of code to indicate that she is only reporting these words and does not herself " stand behind " them or vouch for their validity . |
| 25 | From the first Emilia occupied the position of a precariously privileged dependant , and complained of ‘ hard fortune ’ , her father dying when she was only eight , leaving a ‘ miserable ’ estate . |
| 26 | My father died when I was only two . |
| 27 | The game continues until there is only one Brownie left . |
| 28 | The magazine ended and there was only a faint click from the trigger mechanism . |
| 29 | While the causal theory suggests that there is only one way in which justified true beliefs can get to be knowledge ( by being caused by the facts ) , the conditional theory is willing to countenance any way , causal or not , which preserves the truth of the two subjunctive conditionals . |
| 30 | One time the giro came and it was only £2 , so when he went out to phone the social security I just shoved the baby in the pram and walked out to phone social services . |