Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After knowing only life at the highest level of the game , McGrain is full of admiration for the players Arbroath have assembled from Tayside , Edinburgh and Glasgow who combine playing , training and travelling long distances with everyday jobs . |
| 2 | The law is far too complex to justify a policy of allowing only advice and assistance . |
| 3 | and Imperial , it does so with the clear intention of keeping only part of the business for its own portfolio and selling the rest to the highest bidder . |
| 4 | ‘ The Prime Minister is guilty of releasing only part of the information , ’ he said . |
| 5 | The practice of taking only shark fins , for soup , while discarding the rest of the carcase is banned , as is catching of sharks by foreign boats . |
| 6 | One view holds it might be worth preserving only information derived from the telecommunications record , but that it would make little sense to keep it all . |
| 7 | One particularly gifted black student refused to be stereotyped into teaching only ESOl and literacy by potential employers . |
| 8 | To be worthwhile , any such conference would have to be of sufficient weight so that it could have a decisive effect on the ‘ official ’ international conferences — several of which had already taken place with the express purpose of reviewing the treaty , but which had succeeded in producing only confusion and bitterness . |
| 9 | Firstly , the divergence of function and form means that we can not rely upon teaching only form . |
| 10 | Like all the English , he has a pride in speaking only English and a little French . |
| 11 | Far from hearing only half-an-hour from Michael Heseltine 's statement on the pit closures , a news network would have carried it at length . |
| 12 | Recently the neurochemists have come up with a set of toxins which appear to be fairly effective in destroying only cell bodies , leaving axons intact ( Kohler et al . |
| 13 | It would sometimes help if that normalcy were a little better portrayed by the likes of such as the BBC and by those journalists who earn their living by reporting only violence . |
| 14 | Changing the rejection frequency by tuning only capacitance kC simultaneously varies the degree of rejection . |