Example sentences of "[noun pl] only [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We already know that the building of new roads only generates more traffic , and that congestion rapidly returns to its former levels . |
| 2 | The need for such products only begins to arise when documents containing mixed text and graphics are considered ; newsletters , brochures or catalogues for example . |
| 3 | ( 4 ) The purpose of the subsection is to make it clear that the extension of the permitted hours only applies to the part of the premises set apart for the consumption of main meals by a person having a table meal there . |
| 4 | Moreover , since our involvement in social relationships and membership of social groups only ends when our social existence ends ( at death ) , socialisation must be seen as an inevitable and a lifelong process . |
| 5 | The benefit of a broad view over many states only applies if the set of strings is large and varied . |
| 6 | ( Note that the elapsed time counter for Store Requests only runs while Offline is running ) . |
| 7 | Life is where girls are murdered ‘ with a gallon of lysol in a bath , , and where the tedious business of words only elicits the answer that there is no point to speech . |
| 8 | Paradoxically the choice of subjects only goes to prove that most new jobs in British engineering are paid for by defence contracts . |
| 9 | Full closure of the eyes only occurs in two contexts : sleep and appeasement . |
| 10 | One primary schools only has one inside toilet for 60 pupils in one of its buildings . |
| 11 | That he opposed Winchelsey earlier only aligned him with popes and realists ; that his appointment to Canterbury involved both the exclusion of a saintly scholar and expedient intervention by the pope was hardly of his doing or proof of his unsuitability ; that he readily undertook to secure taxes from reluctant clergy only looks unprincipled against the background of thirteenth-century prelates who had yet to adjust to the vast needs and new methods of kings everywhere . |
| 12 | This small selection of articles only covers a fraction of what is now a large field , but it does point the way towards more effective reconstruction of tissues and organs . |
| 13 | ‘ The man who is looking for a breed to put shape into his lambs only has to talk to butchers who deal in this type of Texel-sired carcass and look at the successes achieved in carcass competitions . |
| 14 | Stuffing down our emotions only makes them more powerful . |
| 15 | Do n't forget that each of these decoders only produces one ac active output line okay . |
| 16 | The variability was expected as the degree of relationship between two individuals only indicates the probability that the two share heritable characters . |
| 17 | This means that each of these filters only has a capacity of 80% of the size stated , in imperial gallon terms . |
| 18 | In the US , where the legal age of drinking has been raised to 21 , some would argue that the banning of alcohol on college campuses only serves to promote alcohol abuse by removing supervision and normal social controls . |
| 19 | Knighthood was not yet a status sought after by the middling and lesser nobility of the south-west , and the rise of new men as milites only seems to have begun in the mid thirteenth century . |
| 20 | Labour MP Tam Dalyell yesterday said : ‘ The fact that these allegations are made in a book generally praising the conduct of British troops only adds to their seriousness . |
| 21 | ‘ The battle of ideas only begins now , and we will produce our ideas and have them fully debated , ’ the Prime Minister 's press secretary , Mr Bernard Ingham , said . |
| 22 | The marking of Part-numbers only comes into its own when text containing a Part-number is passed by Guide to the dispatch system : the dispatch system can readily identify part numbers within the material passed to it , and there is no ambiguity between true part numbers and other strings of characters which might happen to look like part numbers . |
| 23 | If certiorari only declares what is the case anyway , why would a person bother to seek such an order ? |
| 24 | Trying to say the right thing to calm things down or protect people 's feelings only brings more upset and confusion . |
| 25 | An understanding of ‘ mass ’ in choreographic terms only means how to organise and manipulate the dancers within that mass of objects . |
| 26 | First , by what mechanism are the demand and price signals so efficiently and rapidly diffused among all of the islands while information about events on other islands only becomes available : gradually ? |
| 27 | Also , remember that Windows only looks at its INI files when it starts up , so it wo n't see any changes that you make to them until Windows is restarted . |
| 28 | The company claims that Spectra only needs 30Kb of memory to support the host/target communication and tools . |
| 29 | Each of the ‘ sentences ’ in the network only has meaning in terms of its relations to other sentences , and each of these sentences only has meaning in relation to others , and so on . |
| 30 | At ground level , the planting is mish-mash — the choice of delphiniums only highlights the dubious structure above . |