Example sentences of "[noun sg] only [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good exam technique only comes with practice . |
| 2 | Packages like Omicron 's XIS and Multisoft Premier Plus offer multicurrency facilities in all of their accounting and distribution ledgers , whereas the Sage Sovereign general ledger only works in the user 's chosen base currency , although its sales and purchase ledgers are multicurrency . |
| 3 | The hope only emerges as the narrative proceeds . |
| 4 | The minister 's entourage and assembled media swept into the narrow office building only to grind to a halt on the stairs while he and Mr Fallon shut themselves off for a brief chat . |
| 5 | The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 . |
| 6 | Although urban migration accelerated , it acted as a very inadequate safety valve : between 1880 and 1913 the proportion of the labour force working in agriculture only dropped from 74 to 72 per cent . |
| 7 | Where was that traditional British reserve only abandoned for cloying camaraderie under the influence of injuriously vast quantities of alcohol ? |
| 8 | The Spring Budget only decides on taxes how to pay for the spending . |
| 9 | Raymond Cusick had hoped for six Daleks from his budget but in the end the money only ran to affording four . |
| 10 | They complained that they could not get loans from LEDU and if they did , the money only came after long delays . |
| 11 | But you can not expect the taxpayers to provide extra help for one-parent families unless someone tries to ensure that the money only goes to families which really do have only one parent in them . |
| 12 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 13 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 14 | The missing boy was n't really interfering with the progress of the Connon case , because the progress only existed in theory . |
| 15 | Major variations in formulation only occur in levels of alkalinity to deal with differing soil load expectations , the proportion and type of sequestrants , to balance the alkalinity and to cope with water hardness and the inclusion of minor ingredients . |
| 16 | In cases involving the supply of goods ( which is the only case where consumer status makes a difference to the effect of a term in a standard term contract ) the definition is , of course , restricted by the third limb of the definition of " consumer " : the buyer only deals as a consumer if the goods are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 17 | The great advantage over owning a holiday home in the normal way is that the buyer only pays for one week instead of fifty-two . |
| 18 | if that was a possibility or if that became a possibility mum only live round the corner . |
| 19 | One tall girl with curly hair only hitched for two minutes before a smiling family picked her up . |
| 20 | The direction only applies to evidence which a party " intends to place reliance on " and so can not apply to new evidence which only comes to light after the time for serving statements has passed . |
| 21 | Inside , the elderly English upper-class proprietor told me that true Communism only survives in Albania . |
| 22 | The other , probably more significant innovation , is that of the mixed mode degree , at present only offered by Thames Polytechnic . |
| 23 | The logarithmic technique is not normally used because it requires an extra search for every power-of-two increase in the number of records , while a higher-level index only needs to be built when an index has reached three or four tracks in size . |
| 24 | Home responsibilities protection only counts for full tax years , which is a disadvantage , since most of us do not arrange our lives from April to April . |
| 25 | Faith only speaks to faith . |
| 26 | The whole trial only continued for 12 days . |
| 27 | According to Eugen Dijmarescu , Minister of State for Economic Orientation , the state was paying out some 30,000 million lei per month in subsidies , while the population 's total monthly income only amounted to 26,000 million lei . |
| 28 | ELDORADO , the BBC supersoap launched in a blaze of glory only to fizzle like a damp squib , CAN be saved . |
| 29 | However , all businesses must always bear in mind that in Community law , privilege only attaches to communications with independent legal advisers and not with in-house Counsel . |
| 30 | The story only waned in popularity when Mandela was released : why hang on to the book , if it existed , at the time when it was most likely to sell ? |