Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] only that " in BNC.
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| 1 | While officially rejecting the deadlines as an ultimatum and conceding only that it would negotiate over the vexed issue of border controls , Slovenia announced on July 5 that it had demobilized 10,000 members of its defence forces . |
| 2 | Shy and unhappy , she one day went to sleep in the spare room , hoping that he would come in to find her , but he credited her with his own temperament and thought only that she wished to be alone . |
| 3 | But if we retreat from the notion of perfect reliability and require only that the method be generally reliable , we invite sceptical arguments of our second type . |
| 4 | A communiqué issued after a meeting of Foreign Ministers from Egypt , Saudi Arabia and Syria in Cairo on Dec. 5 failed to mention the Bush offer and urged only that Iraq " respond to the initiatives seeking the implementation of the decisions of international legitimacy " . |
| 5 | I recall my own final visit to the farm where he was allowed down for an hour and where the flame was rekindled for that period sufficiently for us to forget his illness and think only that the old Nye had been restored . |