Example sentences of "[noun] only [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Kelly only completed the seventh three-timer of his career after a battle with Gavin Peacock , Newcastle 's regular penalty-taker . |
| 2 | However , since the grant only purchased a few hundred books , these tended to " disappear once distributed around the shelves . |
| 3 | DEC 's recent Windows-on-Alpha agreement with Microsoft Corp only drove the nail further into ACE 's OSF coffin . |
| 4 | The above four cases only scratch the surface . |
| 5 | ‘ Many farmers think it saves money only to treat the best cows in the herd — those which have had clinical mastitis or those with a known high cell-count . |
| 6 | But his fingers only felt the lining paper of the drawer . |
| 7 | FIG. 2 Reaggregate cultures only support the development of 14-day CD4 - CD8 - TCR - thymic precursors when both epithelial and mesenchymal cells are present . |
| 8 | The fact that more sites have been identified as time passes shows that archaeological distribution maps only depict the activities of individual archaeologists or field societies up to any particular date , rather than the total picture of deserted medieval villages ! |
| 9 | It was made tiny by the three men standing around the bed , but Patrick only recognized the bearded Dan Brady . |
| 10 | But it should constantly be borne in mind that law and institutions only provide a framework for human activity and , in particular , for political activity . |
| 11 | In Martin Luther 's words , just as a mother goes to the cradle only to find the baby , we go to the Bible only to find Christ . |
| 12 | The buyer only becomes the legal owner of registered land when the transfer is received by the Land Registry ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 13 | Clause 11 of Precedent 1 is a very short form of confidentiality clause , which is mutually binding , while cl 11.1 of Precedent 2 is inserted by the buyer only to bind the seller . |
| 14 | More than once Lina arranged the time and place of an interview , booked the plane , agreed the meals , models , set stylists and hairdressers only to find the whole thing suddenly cancelled . |
| 15 | The Coach Drivers Club felt that £5 per day or part of a day for a coach was unreasonable for coaches only visiting the town for up to two hours . |
| 16 | The water is in contact with the peaks only bridging the ‘ valleys ’ and it is in these ‘ valleys ’ that much of the dirt is trapped . |
| 17 | Unleaded petrol and encouraging the public not to buy CFC aerosols only touched the tip of the environmental iceberg . |
| 18 | It was also a shock to discover that their father 's investments only yielded an income of some £190 per annum net , considerably less than Warnie ( desperate to leave the Army and live on his pension ) had been hoping . |
| 19 | This applies even if the change only affects a user manual . |
| 20 | A retailer only makes a profit if he sells goods — and if customers think products are too expensive , they will go elsewhere . |
| 21 | After all , the retailer only makes a profit on the items he sells : if the prices he charges are too high , the customers will go elsewhere and he wo n't make any profit at all ! |
| 22 | For example , the private sector at present only provides a limited range of services and therefore no one would be able to opt out entirely from the NHS . |
| 23 | The water treatment polymers will open up new markets for FMC , which at present only has a small business in this field based on commodity chemicals . |
| 24 | A bus stop just before the zebra crossing only confuses the issue further . |
| 25 | The auction houses only offer a limited five-year guarantee ( this was first introduced by Sotheby 's in New York in September 1973 ) . |
| 26 | I 'm also changing the Description to read ‘ NATO — The great Hack ’ — I show you this trick only to emphasize the control you have over Windows ; not so you can sneak onto a friend 's PC and swap all their icons around ! |
| 27 | But his Conservative counterpart said the drop in funding only reflected the fall in unemployment levels since their peak in 1986 . |
| 28 | As mentioned above , income support only has an ordinary , and not a long-term rate . |
| 29 | Newman only caught a glimpse of the man in a dark leather jacket but he looked remarkably like Steve , the thug who had accompanied Papa Grimwood on their visit to Greenway Gardens , Wandsworth . |
| 30 | Cursing the Post Office and the weather in equal proportions , ‘ Buck ’ Buchanan slowly brought the aircraft around and with a considerable tailwind we headed back to Moose Jaw only to find the airport building deserted except for the night watchman huddled by his coal-oil heater with the mail-bags beside him . |