Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] only [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee on Safety of Medicines ( personal communication ) has received only a single report of visual disorder associated with chlorambucil — namely , corneal opacity — and the manufacturers ( Wellcome ) have only a single report of optic neuritis , occurring on day 1 of chlorambucil treatment and not resolving on withdrawal . |
| 2 | Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms . |
| 3 | A good deal of language teaching has followed a bottom-up approach , in that it has considered only the formal language system , often in isolated sentences , without demonstrating or developing the way that system operates in context . |
| 4 | The huge world market out there was worth $330 billion between 1989 and 1992 , but the industry has won only a small share of that business . |
| 5 | The Government has said only a full end to violence is acceptable . |
| 6 | The Muslim Brotherhood has made only a marginal impact on Jordanian life since its entry into parliament . |
| 7 | Thanks to the vagaries of international politics , Ethiopia has had only a tiny slice of this aid cake . |
| 8 | Formerly a private hotel , it has needed only a little work to convert it to its new use . |
| 9 | BOYZ II MEN 's ‘ End Of The Road ’ has become only the third single in 30 years to spend more than ten weeks at the top of the Billboard chart . |
| 10 | He has arrived only a short while before , but did not question the order that von Keller gave to Lt Rosen and several men of the 10th Company to remain close to the vehicle and to bring it up to the battalion by road . |
| 11 | Thanks to Peterborough 's Hospital at Home ( HAH ) system , Jessica has spent only a few days in the local district hospital . |
| 12 | This book has discussed only a few of the innovations we shall have to assess in the next five years or so . |
| 13 | She is modest , feeling she has taken only the first steps . |
| 14 | The solar system has travelled round the galaxy almost 20 times since it was formed , and it has described only a tiny arc of its journey during the two million years that people have been on the Earth . |