Example sentences of "and only [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps most remarkable of all was that this system of government was based on a written Constitution , drawn up by a group of politicians at the end of the 18th century and only altered on rare occasions since ( there had been 19 Amendments to the Constitution by 1920 ) . |
| 2 | We do not , on the Cavell model , first discover certain truths about an object and then conclude that it is a person ; we first acknowledge the person and only inquire into facts later if necessary . |
| 3 | His son Charles was also wounded in the battle and only escaped with difficulty . ’ |
| 4 | French biologists ignored Darwin and only turned to a Lamarckian version of evolutionism in the 1880s . |
| 5 | The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't , ’ she gritted , trying to put it back in place and only succeeding in entering into an undignified struggle . |
| 7 | They have brought the project to the stage where it is almost completed and only remains for the ba the building basically to be fitted out internally , and they have largely raised the funds to do that , but they are some ten thousand pounds short , and they came to erm , the Department with a request that we erm , assist them with this ten thousand pounds shortfall in the funding . |
| 8 | With only fifteen yards to go Crisp tightened as he felt Red Rum 's presence but it was his dying effort and only lasted for a second . |
| 9 | Thanks to the work of your moral forces , powered by the social change which always and only emerges through technological innovation , the future from which I come is not entirely uninhabitable . |
| 10 | Sammy was presently delivering one of our Nautor Swans to its Massachusetts owner ; many of the charter yachts were privately owned and only leased into Cutwater 's care on condition that we delivered them back to their owners for the northern summer . |
| 11 | Pesh Framjee would like to see ‘ incorporated charities taken out of the Companies Act and only reporting under the Charities Act , or if that is not possible have them report under both . |
| 12 | A set of chambers in London may have as many as twenty pupils and only keep on two . |
| 13 | But do n't let anyone get away with telling you that IBM 's problems are all the fault of the world economy : if Hewlett-Packard Co can grow at 20% in the current climate , if ICL Plc can remain in the black , if that former corporate basket case Unisys Corp , which compared with IBM started out under its present management with no advantages at all , can return to profit , IBM 's woes have to be acknowledged to be primarily the fault of the company itself , and only exacerbated by the economy . |
| 14 | He let me go , and only looked at me . |
| 15 | Shortly after the sack , Stamford was granted its great Charter of Incorporation by the newly acclaimed Yorkist king Edward IV , which gave it considerable rewards for its loyalty ( an earlier charter of 972 , which was a post-conquest forgery , and only referred to the mint at Stamford , was still celebrated in 1972 ) . |
| 16 | Essentially , these three names mean the same thing — ‘ a piece of software ’ — and only differ in terms of size and complexity . |
| 17 | On Tuesday the Soviet parliament refused to accept this blanket ban , which it wanted confined to the railways and to other key industries , and only to remain in force until the new law on strikes was promulgated . |
| 18 | On the other hand , if you have lost your partner and like two branches of a tree , you had grown together in kindness and only lived for each other through thick and thin , then talk inwardly to your partner . |
| 19 | My story was that I was the orphaned son of my father 's long-lost younger brother , and only staying on occasional extended holidays on the island while I was passed from relative to relative and my future was decided . |
| 20 | Its use in self-defence is entirely secondary and only employed as a last resort . |
| 21 | What we can do is choose our friends and only listen to those whose opinion we totally respect . |
| 22 | So when you holiday in Britain you can wish for good weather and only hope for the best . |
| 23 | ‘ The waste and desert appearance is partly caused by the vast extent of the common lands belonging to the towns and villages , the system of management of which is ruinous in the extreme , and the finest districts , capable of enriching the proprietors and the country at large , are abandoned to , and only serve as pasture for goats , sheep or a few asses . ’ |
| 24 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 25 | Our current cultural experience has revealed that the premise of a grand historical narrative presenting a unified cultural progression centred on interests that are male and European , and only dealing with activities engaged in by the minority in social and political control , can no longer compel our assent . |
| 26 | In fact , the average household size remained between four and five throughout this period and only fell to three during the twentieth century ( Laslett , 1972b ; Wall , 1972 ) . |
| 27 | I rolled and tossed and kept thinking of Mum , and only fell into a doze at dawn . |
| 28 | The hypothesis that Sabat and Harré advance is that although AD can lead to disruption in memory recall , impairment of linguistic performance , and deficiencies of information processing , it does not result in the loss of ‘ self ’ and only contributes to the possible loss of ‘ selves ’ . |
| 29 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 30 | Tonight 's opponent is the unrated South African Lindi Memani , unbeaten in his last twelve fights and only defeated in three out of twenty four . |