Example sentences of "only [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can not only compensate for declining liquor sales , but can even arrest and reverse that trend . |
| 2 | The report points out that the sector is highly diversified : worldwide , the 10 largest companies only account for one third of production , while in Europe a large number of small and medium sized firms operate alongside 15 or so multinationals . |
| 3 | Although debt enquiries still only account for 6 — 7 per cent of total enquiries , the severity of the problems means that each case can take over 12 hours of interviewing and office work to handle . |
| 4 | Public-sector contracts anyway only account for a small proportion of Olivetti 's sales , says Mr De Benedetti . |
| 5 | Although there are over 20 million individual shareholders in Japan they only account for a quarter of the total shares held . |
| 6 | As can be seen by figure 1 , the number of households headed by women in Latin America and the Caribbean , accounts for 25 per cent of the region 's households , and in Africa 17 per cent , whilst those of the developed regions only account for 20 per cent . |
| 7 | Such bids are regularly submitted but only account for a very small amount of stock allotted . |
| 8 | Second , we are sceptical about trade figures in general and , third , these figures only account for less than half Britain 's trade . ’ |
| 9 | The amount of funds channelled towards buy-out/buy-ins has risen to 61 per cent of the total in 1989 , whereas that for start ups has fallen to only 6 per cent ( start-ups and other early stage only account for 15 per cent of total funds invested ) . |
| 10 | The self-deception that we can , from our late twentieth-century perspective , in any way approximate to a genuinely eighteenth-century response to Mozart is only compounded by what Osborne sees as the false claims of the authenticity movement . |
| 11 | The irony is only compounded by the fact that in retrospect those trade figures turned out to be misleading and only a statistical ‘ blip ’ . |
| 12 | He has told April that I am insanely in love with him , and now they both hate me : he , because I have made it plain this is not the case , and she for much the same reason , only compounded by the fact that since he has raised the subject , and in view of his demeanour towards me … |
| 13 | Medea 's aria with the children before the murder in Act 3 also promises a higher musical flight , only to fall into squareness . |
| 14 | Medea 's aria with the children before the murder in Act 3 also promises a higher musical flight , only to fall into squareness . |
| 15 | Trotting confidently out of his burrow into a jungly , prehistoric world , he is rescued by bats from slimy , groping creatures , only to fall into cavernous waters and swim out to sea , from where he is plucked by a vulture-like bird whose hungry chicks he has ‘ fun ’ avoiding before tumbling safely home . |
| 16 | The company 's poor performance has been brought about by adverse factors that have dogged Lowndes since it bought out Harris Queensway , which had grown fast in the early 1980s only to fall on more difficult times . |
| 17 | The captain had survived some hot stuff from Akram , who went for the ribs , only to fall to Aqib , who used the slope well . |
| 18 | The teamwork was superfluous , because the pilot was dead before the second burst hit him , his plane was on fire before the third burst cut it apart , and the fourth simply knocked sideways a wreck which had only to fall to the ground . |
| 19 | So the poor discarded animals are bounced down the road only to fall under a passing car . |
| 20 | For example , sterling 's real exchange rate relative to the dollar rose by over 40 per cent between late 1977 and late 1980 , only to fall by about 35 per cent in the following two years . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've seen too many youngsters come into the game full of excitement only to fall by the wayside . |
| 22 | An early contestant for the role of heir apparent , Aleke Banda , a minister in the 1960s , was restricted to his village for several years before being partially rehabilitated only to fall in disgrace again in the mid 1980s . |
| 23 | These next few pages are the reactions of one who went to the Centre , came away evangelical and kept saying to himself , ‘ All shipshape and Bristol fashion ’ , only to fall from the crest into the deepest trough , but thankfully to climb up again to a sensible plateau and finally discover that he had been fortified in more ways than he had expected . |
| 24 | Hopefully Wilko is only experimenting as if this is our lineup for the season to put it mildly we 're fucked . |
| 25 | He said it was clear that the government had only joined as a last resort to try and solve the country 's economic problems . |
| 26 | The stone castle was only developed at all widely in the eleventh century , when the large keep , fort and dwelling-house in one , of which the Tower of London is a particularly fine example , came into fashion among men of exceptional wealth . |
| 27 | This fine-grained limestone is only developed over a very small area , usually thought of as a lagoonal deposit behind sponge reefs , though recently interpreted as deposits in offshore sediment traps . |
| 28 | Paired pectoral fins of gnathostome-type were only developed in cephalaspids ( and perhaps pituriaspids ) where there is evidence of an endoskeleton and associated muscles . |
| 29 | But without proper government action , they only scratch at the problem . |
| 30 | And Street is sure that the Premmia range can only build on this success . |