Example sentences of "[verb] only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first local Amnesty groups ( the still-running Eltham and Hampstead among them ) were formed only months after the launch in May 1961 . |
| 2 | We have heard only advertisements for Luigi 's restaurant . |
| 3 | This is all very well for the youngest generation of mountain lovers , but there are surely many grown-up readers , to whom metric measurements will convey only inaccuracy and confusion . |
| 4 | Expecting to see only derision in those clear , light eyes , she was surprised to find they held a flicker of unwilling respect , even admiration , but all he said was , ‘ Would you like another brandy ? ’ |
| 5 | Leaning across , Mungo was disappointed to see only eggs and apples ; three of each . |
| 6 | The Basque nationalists , on the other hand , profess to see only pain and difficulty in going into government . |
| 7 | However , Jones claimed to see only neutrons , and a few of those only at levels that might be interesting to science and geophysicists but of no relevance to making commercial fusion reactors . ’ |
| 8 | That perhaps was the biggest shock most of the journalists had expected to see only children near the line . |
| 9 | ‘ I would love to see only flowers marking the geographical border across the city , ’ said Mrs Kalina Morvina , mayor of Valga . |
| 10 | But Ms Roderiguez is dissatisfied with the level of funding provided by Telefonica — while other centres received approximately $14,000 , the DOCE got only $2,125 . |
| 11 | One man with 47 years ’ service got only £6,000 . ’ |
| 12 | In ‘ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ’ , the androids lack only memory to believe themselves human . |
| 13 | But colour terms frequently qualify only part of the object their head noun denotes ; furthermore , different colour terms may typically apply to different parts , so that , for instance , Mary 's eyes are blue and Mary 's eyes are red are not contraries ( N.B. there is no lexical ambiguity in these sentences ) . |
| 14 | Nineteen owned only evening papers . |
| 15 | People are often process ‘ blind ’ , seeing only tasks and underestimating the importance of process aspects . |
| 16 | Out of it came an imperative on women , as well as men , not to be swayed by traditional culture and educational choice into seeing only obstacles to advancement . |
| 17 | Indeed , even by February 1989 when the first meetings with Jones took place , where Jones was claiming to see neutrons — a sure sign of fusion — Fleischmann and Pons were seeing only heat . |
| 18 | We can answer only problems printed on this page . |
| 19 | I do not want only Monktonhall , but the 100 years worth of coal which stretches to Musselburgh bay to be developed . |
| 20 | Suppose that , in a typical sexual species , a strain of parthenogenetic females arose , producing only daughters like themselves . |
| 21 | To be worthwhile , any such conference would have to be of sufficient weight so that it could have a decisive effect on the ‘ official ’ international conferences — several of which had already taken place with the express purpose of reviewing the treaty , but which had succeeded in producing only confusion and bitterness . |
| 22 | But according to Money Management 's annual survey of with-profits policies , actual cash payouts after that time averaged only £1,173 in 1992 . |
| 23 | A core at the top of the unit averaged only 7% and 0.2 md . |
| 24 | In his thriving shop he expected only specialist collectors to be interested but he is surprised and delighted to find that 95% of the customers buy on aesthetic appeal . |
| 25 | The follow up varied from 41 to 180 days , and because the trial was stopped only 48% of the patients were followed up for six months . |
| 26 | ( It has been suggested that one method by which a written constitution could be entrenched could be by " manufacturing " such a change in the norm of validity by altering the terms of the judicial oath so that judges would swear to uphold only laws which were in conformity with the constitutional provisions — per H. W. R. Wade , 1989 Hamlyn Lecture : Constitutional Fundamentals ) . |
| 27 | MANY DESKTOP computers can generate high-quality digital sound , but apart from games and music programs , most software emits only beeps . |
| 28 | BAK or delete only files that were updated after a certain date . |
| 29 | It is too small to appeal to many so it would probably make only £10 at auction . |
| 30 | He was talking about branching out into the ship-in-a-bottle business because Jonathon will make only ships . |