Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE . |
| 2 | Any steps with respect to the performance of the Peace Treaty taken by the United States under its letter to Egypt and Israel would be binding upon them both , while any action that fell only within the terms of the Memorandum could be objected to by Egypt as a third party . |
| 3 | You should bear in mind that WinTach only measures Windows graphics performance and not overall system performance . |
| 4 | The mycologist Roland Thaxter at Harvard University began a series of monographs on the Laboulbeniales in the 1890s , a study that ended only with his death in 1932 . |
| 5 | And on price , think of it as a car that costs only twice that of conventional luxury cars instead of three times the level of BMW/Jaguar/Lexus that RR charges for it more potent models . |
| 6 | His letter contained an account of all the birds he had seen : a common goatsucker that flew gracefully round and round the ship for an hour , although it had ‘ in all probability passed the night on the wing ’ ; a female yellow wagtail that alighted only for a moment ; numerous petrels , five of which he killed for himself , and one for use in Mr Yarrell 's work ( a History of British Birds ) ; a flight of swallows , and several small turtle doves , which ‘ visited the ship [ and ] went off again immediately ’ ; a kestrel which was killed ‘ from off the Rigging ’ ; a short-eared owl which flew on board during the night , was caught and kept alive for several days ; and hundreds of shearwaters , which surrounded the ship off Madeira and the Salvage Rocks . |
| 7 | The SRP60N ribber can be set like this , but you can also use the autoset lever to produce a fabric that has only a single colour on the reverse . |
| 8 | It was there that he met up with William 's younger brother John — they were contemporaries , having both been born in the same year — and began a friendship that ended only with John 's death in 1793 . |
| 9 | Basically , water passes through a coarse strainer which needs a weekly rinse ; through foam that needs a weekly rinse and changing every four months ; through carbon that has only a two week life ; through two ceramic sponges that need rotating and one discarding every six months ; through the reusable Hex-Nodes and through a final polishing screen . |
| 10 | Often one takes home the luxury and sees only a mulched wad of money . |
| 11 | He was caught on the sciatic nerve and suffered only a dead-leg and an abrasion . |
| 12 | The Thurston Upper School pupil is a member of the Stowmarket Kyokushinkai Club and has only taken part in the sport for the past three years , progressing from third to runner-up to national champion at his last championships as a junior . |
| 13 | They took no constituency seat and had only 1.4% of the list votes . |
| 14 | She went down to the lobby to settle the bill so far for both their rooms , and then changed her mind and paid only for her own and the booze . |
| 15 | The book has been written very much with the busy clinician in mind and conveys only the most superficial impression , an approach that is less than satisfactory for the serious researcher or specialist . |
| 16 | They did not meet prior to the civil marriage ceremony and spoke only briefly then . |
| 17 | After a supper of pea soup — ‘ One pea each , ’ the duty corporal quipped — and bully beef , he was quartered — and learning new words by the minute — in a large gymnasium that temporarily housed four hundred beds , each a mere two feet in width and set only a foot apart . |
| 18 | But , like so many of his stablemates , he struggled to find his form in the early part of this term and has only recently returned to his best . |
| 19 | The problem always is to identify myths that support a mature life from those which distort the quality of living and mobilise only the less than adult , managerial capacities and capabilities of individuals in their work roles . |
| 20 | Explaining their resignations in terms of the desire to " recover [ their ] freedom " , Wade said that he and the other PDS ministers had been excluded from government action and had only been party to decisions over " trivial " issues . |
| 21 | Indeed in one melee outside the gates Richard was thrown from his horse and rescued only by the strong arm of a sturdy butcher . |
| 22 | A vicar was guaranteed the vicarage but received only a certain portion of the ecclesiastical income . |
| 23 | If yer fed up reading about it just skip this , though then again you might want to savour the highest standards of reporting as found only in NOTW : - ) |
| 24 | Whatever their private opinions , the liberals were willing to establish catholicism as the sole religion of Spain , to make heresy a crime , to allow episcopal censorship of religious works ; as Larra was to observe , it was a one-legged freedom that permitted only ‘ political ’ discussion and it shows the limitations imposed on liberalism by fear of the Church . |
| 25 | She is a pretty old woman with pure white hair and clear blue eyes , and skin that crinkles only slightly about the mouth and corners of her eyes . |
| 26 | This is possible with packages like JBA 's Business 400 , and to some extent with Omicron 's Powersystems ( see panel on p 68 ) but not with a ‘ multicurrency ’ system with a general ledger that operates only in sterling ; Tetra 2000 for example . |
| 27 | ( In fact , the light emitted by any opaque object that is glowing red hot has a characteristic spectrum that depends only on its temperature — a thermal spectrum . |
| 28 | Britain 's most famous ice-skaters are relaunching their Olympic careers at an ice rink that has only recently been saved from closure . |
| 29 | The result is an intarsia chart that needs only be joined for the vertical sections . |
| 30 | You can make one like the British O' level that passes only 20% of 16 year-olds . |