Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] only [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , much one may respect Borg 's reputation and his unerring sportsmanship , I find it hard to share his optimism , especially as only 16 of the 54 points he won were from his winners . |
| 2 | The adoption of the proposed Directive in various ways in the various member states is likely to do little to improve this situation ( except that data protection laws will be enacted in all the EC states , rather than only some of them ) . ’ |
| 3 | This pattern is common among small firms generally where only one in 25 use a five-day week relative to one in three large companies . |
| 4 | I remember him saying it was a shame that he had to punish us both when only one of us was being naughty . |
| 5 | Even if only one of you has a paid job , the death of the other would almost certainly deal a severe financial blow to the household . |
| 6 | But even if only one in four follows us , we will have nearly thirty thousand people under our command . ’ |
| 7 | Moreover , as Herman explains , the boundaries between control and constraint are overlapping , since ‘ [ a ] constraint is a form of control even if only negative in exercise , as it shapes the decisions made by limiting the scope of choice . |
| 8 | The point of all this was of course to reinforce the belief that the after-life was a paradise , even if only achievable with certainty through death in battle , and thus to improve the combativeness of the assassins . |
| 9 | Yet with any luck we shall have a dozen bold new hens to lay eggs for us next year - and even if only half of them manage to emulate their mothers in the matter of bringing up families , by mid-summer we shall be positively over-run . |
| 10 | And the large majority of even the 13 and 14 year olds knew they too were under threat even though only three in 10 members of that age group had actually covered the subject in class . |