Example sentences of "[noun sg] only [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This applies even if the change only affects a user manual . |
| 2 | A retailer only makes a profit if he sells goods — and if customers think products are too expensive , they will go elsewhere . |
| 3 | After all , the retailer only makes a profit on the items he sells : if the prices he charges are too high , the customers will go elsewhere and he wo n't make any profit at all ! |
| 4 | The American Psychological Association only established a Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues in 1987 , twelve years after it founded the Division of the Psychology of Women . |
| 5 | First Edition TWO MEN who fled after bungling a raid on a shop jumped into a getaway car only to find a policeman at the wheel . |
| 6 | However , with BBC BASIC you can turn to a particular character in a file an the tedium only takes a couple of seconds , so it 's well worth doing . |
| 7 | The advantage they have over individuals is that , although each practice only contains a part of the complex phenomenon which is society , each one is a ‘ whole ’ in the sense that it consists of a variety of different kinds of parts , all of which are interrelated . |
| 8 | Any signatory of the convention is required to register a formal difference with the secretariat if its own laws preclude it from observing a standard while failure to implement a recommended practice only stimulates a request that the secretariat be informed . |
| 9 | ‘ Or is it that you play the Ice Queen only to capture a man 's interest ? ’ |
| 10 | Fokine 's Harlequin only gives a glimpse of his abilities . |
| 11 | What is certain is that actual copulation only takes a matter of ten or fifteen seconds , though it may be repeated twenty or more times within twenty-four hours and one hundred times within three or four days . |
| 12 | ‘ The weir will last a lifetime , ’ Nigel said , ‘ and the millpond only needs a bit of clearing out . ’ |
| 13 | To see the reasonableness of Ross 's claim one need only consider a case of which Ross made much , that of the duty of promise keeping . |
| 14 | The whole package only takes a couple of days to master , claims the company , and it will set you back £449 . |
| 15 | In the case of acid Tyrode 's the process only takes a matter of seconds , the zona swells and then thins and it is advisable to remove the embryos to warm M2 + BSA ( Table 5 ) before the zona is dissolved completely . |
| 16 | That is still the reality of the Christian message , but that forgiveness only becomes a reality , efficacious , when I make it mine . |
| 17 | That glacial exterior only makes a man the more eager to find it . ’ |
| 18 | Page only needed a par four on the ninth green , his final hole , to prevent a play-off and win by a stroke from the 20-year-old from Drayton Park , Staffordshire . |
| 19 | In most cases a local authority only has a duty to provide services under the Act if a child is in need . |
| 20 | The train only has a guard . |
| 21 | The feeling only lasted a second , but from the way Tanetoa , Belial 's Samoan cook , flinched , some thirty feet away , Bernice guessed that Legion 's voice was doing a little travelling . |
| 22 | On the ground the feeling only lasts a fraction of a second , but it can be more severe and prolonged during flight . |
| 23 | A letter to the branch manager only produced a restatement of the charging terms . |
| 24 | But the thought only lasted a second . |
| 25 | Deborah Campagnoni of Italy , who won the Olympic super-giant only to tear a knee ligament in giant slalom , is back in action . |
| 26 | Once bitten twice shy , and a man only tackles a hell-cat once in his life . ’ |
| 27 | The form only requires a box or number of boxes to be filled out with the Group(s) identifier ( typically A1 etc . ) |
| 28 | Does a situation only become a problem when the sufferer identifies it as something about which he or she , can do something ? |
| 29 | Because a human only becomes a resource when it is classed as an asset with potential to grow . |
| 30 | Some referees would have produced a red card instantly , but Alan Flood decided that the challenge only merited a yellow . |