Example sentences of "only [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not only widely respected as a critic but also regarded with affection for the genuine humility which made him always interested in others ' opinions . |
| 2 | It was not only widely used at once but became the " identification photograph " of the war . |
| 3 | Although frank aphasic symptoms are only rarely seen after lesions of the right hemisphere , or even after total right hemispherectomy ( Damasio , Almeida and Damasio , 1975 ; Smith , 1974 ) in patients with left hemisphere specialisation for language , careful studies are now pointing to certain linguistic impairments in association with right-sided brain damage . |
| 4 | Earlier Soviet statements in the 1980s only rarely referred to the Soviet interest ‘ in having Afghanistan remain a neutral and non-aligned state and its good neighbour ’ ( my emphasis ) . |
| 5 | Of course , it may be true that bream only rarely suck from as much as nine inches distance , but I always allow that much on the assumption that they do . |
| 6 | Women , it was generally claimed , were put to do " straight setting " , that is composing lines of type ( by hand for most of the period ) , and only rarely moved from the type-case to do the other tasks regarded as part of the trade ( making up , imposition , locking up chases , carrying formes , etc . ) . |
| 7 | For this reason urban women in Pakistan only rarely work outside the home . |
| 8 | The hall church is only rarely found outside the realms of Germanic influence . |
| 9 | Radio was only rarely mentioned in the columns of the daily press . |
| 10 | However , temporal order was only rarely mentioned in the children 's explanations of their judgements , indicating that children may not be particularly aware of the temporal order information on which they base their judgements . |
| 11 | The Andean lines , like the British leys , are only rarely associated with astronomical orientations , so archaeoastronomy can be only a part of the linear mystery , not vice versa . |
| 12 | It would appear that oral lichen planus is only rarely associated with coeliac disease . |
| 13 | The cleavage line is only rarely retained in adult insects but some species have a similarly situated sulcus of different morphological and functional significance . |
| 14 | Whatever the mix of capital investment and labour , new designs only rarely emerge from Glascoed : each has to have survived the tortuous processes of ministry procurement and the logistical rigours of subcontracted production — often involving half a dozen other factories , sometimes more . |
| 15 | ( In fact , sets right at the top of this range were only rarely included in the testing programme . ) |
| 16 | It is curious how agents only rarely think of providing you with a plan on a voluntary basis . |
| 17 | He got away with being what many others could only secretly aspire to be . |
| 18 | The very impurity which the radical humanist seeks to transcend , only despairingly to rediscover at the very centre of his or her being — this impurity , for the fantasies of transgressive reinscription , is not the ground of its failure but the material upon which it works . |
| 19 | Such a condition leads to a degraded cliff , one that is principally the product of subaerial erosion and only locally sharpened at the base by marine erosion . |
| 20 | Although many patients are quite fit when admitted to the ward , they will become completely dependent when they have an anaesthetic and may only slowly return to independence after a surgical procedure . |
| 21 | Fume cupboards for those working with gases and solvents only slowly came into laboratories . |
| 22 | It looks as if Mr Honecker , 77 and only slowly recovering from a gall-bladder operation , is incapable of grasping the situation in his country . |
| 23 | ‘ The world is only slowly emerging from recession and it is not certain whether Germany 's has been arrested . |
| 24 | HRH The Prince of Wales encapsulated this aspiration at the Action for Wales Conference in Cardiff in 1991 — ‘ I believe the need for thorough and thoughtful environment education is , perhaps , greater than ever because increased environmental awareness and concern are only slowly leading to more environmental action . |
| 25 | In spite of this caveat , the implicit assumptions on which policies are based have only slowly evolved from a colonial , Euro-centric and messianic intellectual frame of reference which has endured the waning of empire and the regaining of political independence of most former colonies . |
| 26 | The course is only loosely related to the Pimlico Connection scheme , but 15 students each year choose tutoring in schools as their fieldwork for the course . |
| 27 | For example , the perceived colours of objects are only loosely related to the wavelengths of light that they reflect into our eyes . |
| 28 | Questions of a possible denial of free speech arise in particular where the ‘ expression ’ is not a reprehensible exploitation of the defendant 's notoriety but is a literary production only loosely related to the defendant 's crimes . |
| 29 | I was given , in all circles , a great deal of orange squash , then as now considered the drink most fit for children , though only loosely connected to the orange . |
| 30 | Others , such as Morris ( 1972 ) , Panitch ( 1980 ) and Diamant ( 1981 ) , think that corporatism must be bureaucratic , but meaning that the state will be dependent on expert officials operating according to technocratic norms only loosely controlled by a political elite . |