Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] only [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cones are concentrated in the fovea , and the rest of the retina has a higher proportion of rods which only provide monochrome vision . |
| 2 | On the other hand , we realise that professional clinicians coming to the book might remain unconvinced about some of our chosen examples , as indeed might those readers who only feel comfortable with terms like ‘ schizophrenia ’ when they are used in a sense that has been given medical approval . |
| 3 | Hammy Hamster , Roderick Rat and , perhaps least impressively , Mr Guinea Pig were all played by trained pets who only worked ten-minute stints at a time . |
| 4 | Or perhaps one of these workaholics who only became aware of difficulties in their marriage when their wives had packed their bags and left their goodbye note on the mantelpiece ? |
| 5 | There was also the practical reason to provide convincing reasons why so many men were possessed of so little or no assessable ‘ substance ’ , and in the subsidy to justify the assessments of wages which only became effective in the absence of taxable goods , and , moreover , masters were responsible for the payment of their servants ' taxes . |
| 6 | In Sussex , as we have seen , they inherited a complex manorial system of dues and services which only need slight modification and a rather harsher lordly hand to yield good returns . |
| 7 | The research found that alpha rays may cause damage to cells which only becomes apparent much later when abnormal chromosomes appear . |