Example sentences of "[noun pl] only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But other oil producing countries have claimed such taxes only contribute to the state revenues of rich , oil-consuming countries while reducing the earnings of developing countries dependent on oil exports . |
| 2 | The ratio fell substantially after that , and by 1986 direct taxes only provided some 10% more revenue than taxes on expenditure . |
| 3 | They contain endlessly frustrated plantation slaves who are rebellious at assessments and in encounters with professionals , but whose views only reach daylight in fragmented and unvalidated form ; and they contain house slaves who agree with everything that goes on and use ‘ massa 's ’ language and concepts , but who believe something else all the time and are waiting for the day . |
| 4 | The alliance is cemented by that traditional political religion , forged in the previous century , which sees the natural law as most accessible to true believers , that it is obligatory to enforce its practice by law , and that those holding other views only have rights to put their views into practice when they are not seen by the bishops to do harm to the social fabric . |
| 5 | The hand-over of those objects only took place after Iraq had lodged a complaint with the United Nations . |
| 6 | ‘ Previous reports on diet and health have told us we need to eat fruit and vegetables only to provide roughage , ’ says Professor James . |
| 7 | Only a day after reporting the second year of falling personal computer sales ( CI No 2,157 ) , the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association says that Japanese manufacturers ' shipments of personal computers jumped 6.2% in unit terms during the January to March quarter from a year earlier , and the rise in combined exports and domestic sales to 688,000 units from 648,000 units in the year-earlier quarter marked the first quarterly rise in two years ; exports rocketed 31% to 144,000 units but domestic shipments only inched up 1.1% to 544,000 units , but was still the first quarterly increase in two-and-a-half years ; because of the price wars , combined export and domestic shipments of made-in-Japan micros — when measured in currency terms , fell 8.3% — exports and home sales each off 8% . |
| 8 | Some local authorities only support elderly residents in their own homes , whereas two authorities have no directly provided provision . |
| 9 | As the Post Office Authorities only favour us with two mails weekly at this time of the year , your impression of Saturday first will not reach this remote whisky-making comer of Her Majestie 's dominions until the morning will have dawned when Shepherds first received the tidings . |
| 10 | In practice , however , failures are often forestalled by governments that fear systemic contagion from the collapse of credit institutions ; and the authorities only allow mergers between big firms where they are convinced that competition will not suffer . |
| 11 | Leapor 's intellectual attainments are of no importance , and her poetic skills only obstruct her proper work in the kitchen . |
| 12 | A sitting scheduled for Oct. 19 was cancelled , and the UDF deputies only agreed to return to the Assembly after a compromise was reached in crisis talks with Zhelev . |
| 13 | We already know that the building of new roads only generates more traffic , and that congestion rapidly returns to its former levels . |
| 14 | It is already evident that new roads only generate new traffic , and the environmental impact is an absolute disaster . |
| 15 | However , it is clear that some collocations only exist in particular inflected forms [ Schuetze , forthcoming ] . |
| 16 | The need for such products only begins to arise when documents containing mixed text and graphics are considered ; newsletters , brochures or catalogues for example . |
| 17 | Those cases only decided that the successor must live with the tenant in the whole of the premises . |
| 18 | If the debt is unpaid at maturity the bank will in most cases only seek recourse to the exporter if non-payment is due to a contractual dispute . |
| 19 | The above four cases only scratch the surface . |
| 20 | Susan clasped her hands because she was trembling , but the tension in her locked fingers only made her shake the more . |
| 21 | But his fingers only felt the lining paper of the drawer . |
| 22 | Now , in a bit of a rush : the asparagus was excellent , but its finger-bowls arrived late , so that buttery fingers only got rinsed at the last bite . |
| 23 | However , these reactions only take place because of the presence of manufactured chlorine in the stratosphere . |
| 24 | Your five minutes only start when you make yourself known . |
| 25 | FIG. 2 Reaggregate cultures only support the development of 14-day CD4 - CD8 - TCR - thymic precursors when both epithelial and mesenchymal cells are present . |
| 26 | The fact that more sites have been identified as time passes shows that archaeological distribution maps only depict the activities of individual archaeologists or field societies up to any particular date , rather than the total picture of deserted medieval villages ! |
| 27 | But it should constantly be borne in mind that law and institutions only provide a framework for human activity and , in particular , for political activity . |
| 28 | The emissions only contained one part per million of hydrochloric acid . ’ |
| 29 | However , if we transpose notes into different octaves and use Schoenberg 's method of omitting certain notes only to include them later on , we can disguise the system and the effect can be excellent . |
| 30 | More than once Lina arranged the time and place of an interview , booked the plane , agreed the meals , models , set stylists and hairdressers only to find the whole thing suddenly cancelled . |