Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a meeting with the ASEAN Foreign Ministers in Indonesia on July 27 Baker attempted to allay their fears , informing them that the US goals in Cambodia remained the same and that " our approach towards achieving them differs only very slightly " . |
| 2 | This is designed to test the feasibility of extending fundholding to cover all services and not just the limited range of services at present included — which represents only about 20% of services purchased from providers . |
| 3 | Each country with a sailing history has its own version which differs only slightly from that of others . |
| 4 | Although the insider dealer himself contributes only around a tenth of that volume , he gives a clear enough signal to arbitrageurs in the market , reckons the study . |
| 5 | THE Queen 's cousin , Sir Angus Oglivy , has bought himself an early Christmas present — a Zike , the invention launched last summer by Sir Clive Sinclair but which has only just reached the shops at £499 . |
| 6 | BRITAIN 'S ‘ greenest ’ car is the Subaru Vivio 660cc which has only just gone on sale . |
| 7 | No longer in the calendar with a prime week of its own , an event which has only just survived this year through a last minute rescue sponsorship package , will hardly be able to reduce its prize money in 1993 from the $1m it already pays to the Double-Up new minimum of $625,000 , even though it will no longer be guaranteed even one of the top ten ranked or other leading box office players . |
| 8 | Although the speed of the computer does not allow animation comparable to that which can be produced on film , there is no doubt that this facility , which has only just begun to be explored , can give real power to the teacher . |
| 9 | Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country . |
| 10 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 11 | Here , in the tangle of islands and fjords that is Patagonia , the volcanic chain becomes established on the South American continent with Mt Burney , an obscure , almost unknown volcano which has only once been visited by a geologist , in 1911 . |
| 12 | There are miniatures , sultan tents , a harem carriage , a throne , jewelled items , agate drinking cups , Iznik pottery , caftans , swords and the emerald-encrusted Topkapi dagger , which has only once before left the palace . |
| 13 | This proposal , which has only fairly recently come to light , was made by Archbishop Ruffini of Palermo and Monsignor Ottaviani , then an official of the Holy Office . |
| 14 | The demise of the picture-based magazines caused Doisneau real financial hardship which has only recently been alleviated by the boom in poster and postcard reproductions . |
| 15 | In the sciences of course the possibility of pure objectivity has been a convenient and fruitful assumption , which has only recently run up against its limitations . |
| 16 | The lake they had been playing on is a former open-cast mining site which has only recently been transformed into a countryside park . |
| 17 | The result is a very distinctive animal , which has only recently been properly classified . |
| 18 | At $5,550 , IBM Corp 's new 16″ colour Xstation 150 seems pricey , but then it 's built around the Motorola Inc 88110 which has only recently gone into volume production ( UX No 422 ) : thought to clock at 40Mhz IBM says the 150 outperforms its existing Xstation 130 by a factor of six at 115,000 Xstones , and comes with from 6Mb to 22Mb RAM . |
| 19 | But this view is probably due to our imperfect knowledge of the remains of this period in East Anglia , bearing in mind , too , that with the shortage of good building stone most of the buildings would have been in timber , the excavation and interpretation of which has only recently become a normal archaeological technique . |
| 20 | These include ecclesiastical records , and a large collection in the Departmental Archive which has only recently been made available to researchers . |
| 21 | There is widespread recognition that nearly all discussions of international peace and security over the last 45 years , and of policy implications for the UK , have been informed by the protracted global confrontation between the superpowers which has only recently , and so dramatically , crumbled . |
| 22 | The following Aria from Dallapiccola 's opera Il prigioniero has equal eight-beat phrase-lengths throughout ( indicated by dotted slurs ) and is made up of three rhythmic elements : repeated crotchets , occasional pairs of quavers , and the dotted rhythm , which occurs only twice : This thematic material ( which recurs frequently in the opera ) comprises a series which begins on C and covers the first five full bars . |
| 23 | Genmic DNA from an unstable transformant was digested with Cla I which cuts only once in the plasmid ( Fig. 1 ) , treated with T 4 DNA polymerase and self ligated to circularize plasmid DNA . |
| 24 | The picture which emerges from research , from that of Dorothy Wedderburn in the 1960s to that of Sara Arber and her colleagues in the 1980s , on the relationship between pensioners and younger relatives , friends and neighbours , is not one of simple dependency of the old upon the young , but of an exchange relationship to which both sides contribute which shifts only gradually over time towards the younger participants being the predominant givers ( Cole and Utting , 1962 ; Gilbert et al. , 1989 ; Evandrou et al. , 1986 ) providing a significant volume of services which would otherwise be a costly burden on the state . |
| 25 | This specimen , which weighs only about 10 kilograms , shows a thin , surficial zone altered by heat ( the interior stayed cold ) , which indicates that it passed through the atmosphere as a small body and so undoubtedly made a soft landing on the ice sheet ( Figure 5 ) . |
| 26 | Nancarrow , who has only just finished a ban for venting his anger by making an obscene gesture to a referee during the British Open , was reported to the tournament director for abusing match officials , his opponent , and the court . |
| 27 | The suggestion of a silver thread among the dark men in green makes Gus appear a distinguished elder statesmen , far too distinguished-looking for a man who has only just reached 29 . |
| 28 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |
| 29 | We have been considering the problem for some time — — unlike the right hon. Gentleman , who has only just discovered it . |
| 30 | The hon. Gentleman , who has only just wandered in , should realise that I am responding to points raised earlier by his hon. Friends . |