Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] have only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While similar region versus district confrontations elsewhere in Scotland are deliberately being kept low-key , particularly in Labour-dominated areas , there are signs of open warfare in Highland , where the political parties have only limited influence . |
| 2 | The economic downturn has only intensified the self-rejuvenating qualities of élites and multiplied the ways in which others are shut out . |
| 3 | The Scottish star had only agreed to run if selected for the 1,500m but a communication breakdown meant she was chosen for 3,000m instead . |
| 4 | In recent years , however , the Public Trustee has only had a small and declining proportion of the total work of trusteeship and executorship ( see p. 114 ) , and in 1972 a Committee of Enquiry recommended that no new work should be taken on , and that the office be wound up and merged with that of the Official Solicitor . |
| 5 | The Foreign Office had only given him permission to join the Army on the understanding that he would return to Abyssinia when his leave expired . |
| 6 | Either will do , but the present confusion has only added to uncertainty in the financial markets . |
| 7 | Attempts to intimidate the Baltic republics have only stiffened their resolve . |
| 8 | When his trial opened on May 26 he had been charged with complicity in genocide , and the presiding judge had only substituted the lesser charge of instigating murder at the moment of reaching a verdict . |
| 9 | The record showed that out of fourteen nuclear public inquiries since 1956 , the nuclear proponents had only lost once . |
| 10 | More specifically , the accident resulting from the first incident had only taken place because of a concatenation of events leading to it which could not have been foreseen . |
| 11 | And although restricted by a virus , the Glaswegian-born centre-forward has only found the target twice this season . |
| 12 | With the exception of a few New Zealand government officials , the other inhabitants had only come to Koraloona because they preferred it to life in reduced circumstances in a big city . |
| 13 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 14 | In being ambitious in specific spheres men in the external world have only limited pleasures whereas if one embraces the whole of nature more can be enjoyed . |
| 15 | In the early decades of the century it had been widely assumed that the distinct geographical provinces of the modern world had only come into existence quite recently in geological terms . |
| 16 | Another problem , and one discussed at length by Wittgenstein in BB and PI , is that definitions of the lexicographical sort have only limited relevance . |