Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] only [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the Minister aware that 18 schools in the Cleveland authority area were built before 1914 and that in the current financial year Cleveland has received only a quarter of its capital allocation ? |
| 2 | The village has attracted only a trickle of visitors . |
| 3 | She has made only a handful of films in the past 20 years . |
| 4 | If the user has requested only a subset the user will be prompted to enter a start and end module name . |
| 5 | He has played only a handful of games since breaking down with back trouble in St Lucia while touring his native West Indies with England in 1990 . |
| 6 | It is just too important a match to blood a player , who upto now has played only a handful of internationals . |
| 7 | Someone who has taken only an option to buy has not ‘ bought or agreed to buy . ’ |
| 8 | The imagination must replace the lost steeples : the NE chapel of St Sepulchre , topped with the chapel of St Pancras , survives in its transeptal position , but the matching SE chapel of St Mary has lost its upper storey : the adjoining chapel of St Augustine to the W , and its upper chapel of St Michael , are now only crags ; the Bishop 's tower at the NW , late and ill-built , has fallen in , though some of its elevation remains ; and the SW tower of St John has left only a matrix on the W wall . |
| 9 | ‘ This primitive morality was refined by Christianity ; but the passing of Christianity has left only the refinement without the morality … |