Example sentences of "only [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully Wilko is only experimenting as if this is our lineup for the season to put it mildly we 're fucked . |
| 2 | The entrepreneurial characteristics of agency workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encourage agency working as an institution , can be likened to the entrepreneurial characteristics of self-employed , or labour only , subcontracting , building workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encouraged the growth of labour only subcontracting in the building industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s ( see Phelps Brown , 1968 ) . |
| 3 | Yeah but the favour we 're only touching on what we can do . |
| 4 | Because of this I shall concentrate upon the debate between them and in particular on the abstract theoretical aspects , only touching upon the practical policy implications . |
| 5 | so it is so easy when you 're only helping on a side line because you 're not doing any of the thought processing |
| 6 | After breaking ahead of his experienced Brazilian rival , Jose-Luis Barbosa , he simply stretched out the five-man field , only stepping on the accelerator off the last bend to hold off comfortably the late surge of runner-up , Belgian Luc Bernaert . |
| 7 | But , if it 's only hanging by a thread , let it fall apart and build something new from the components . |
| 8 | This involves not only reflecting on why certain types of behaviours are defined as criminal in some historical periods and not others , but also why a particular criminal law comes to incorporate from relatively homogeneous behaviour patterns only a portion and exclude the remainder , even though each and every instance of this behaviour causes avoidable harm , injury , or deprivation . |
| 9 | We talked about how fast you can make a 1.1 MkII Escort run when it 's only firing on three cylinders and how to make it run on three cylinders when it wants to run on just two . |
| 10 | The indication is serious because , with leaves not able to work properly , the carbohydrate energy food supply is not being elaborated and the entire plant is only firing on one cylinder . |
| 11 | You are only catering for the mindless buffoons who find Simon Fanshawe a greater stimulus than Shakespeare . |
| 12 | We 're not only catering for Harlow people we are catering for people outside which is bringing money into Harlow helping the finance of Harlow and I think we are just progressing with the times . |
| 13 | However , an Asian community worker in North London told me ‘ West Indian children are only reacting to the insufferable cultural superiority that Asians feel . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The commission criticized the Federal Aviation Authority ( FAA ) for only reacting to disasters and not doing enough to prevent them . |
| 16 | Fortunately Roy was only toying with me , eventually agreeing to participate in good spirit . |
| 17 | The Justice Police had sealed off the streets and were only allowing in members of parliament who agreed to be body-searched . |
| 18 | ‘ They 're not only fightin' fer better wages . |
| 19 | But they are not only competing amongst each other , they are competing with men as well . |
| 20 | It is important to bear in mind the fundamental rule of agency law , that the acts of an agent are only binding on the principal if the agent had actual or apparent authority to perform those acts . |
| 21 | These monographs are not only binding in the member countries , but also carry the force of law in the British Commonwealth and in former colonies of France , Spain and Belgium . |
| 22 | It is when we reach the realm of ‘ abnormal deviance ’ that the teacher 's problematic really emerges , for here pupils are not only deviating from the ‘ good pupil ’ role , but may be denying or over-exaggerating their gender image as well . |
| 23 | Metaphorically , we can imagine theoretical astronomers breathing a sigh of relief and saying ‘ Oh , so the Sun is only shrinking by a tenth of a second of arc per century , not a full arc second after all . |
| 24 | But it 's only happening in some less developed countries . |
| 25 | The 23-year-old Southampton player , ranked a lowly 176 in the world and only appearing in the tournament on the back of a wild card , rocked the world No 6 with 6–3 , 3–6 , 6–3 triumph . |
| 26 | The 23-year-old Southampton player , ranked a lowly 176 in the world and only appearing in the tournament on the back of a wild card , rocked the world No.6 with 6–3 3–6 6–3 triumph . |
| 27 | We 're only disposing of the vehicle his spirit used for its journey on earth . ’ |
| 28 | In normal usage the Dodge stops acceptably , the spongy pedal and ‘ grabbing ’ only occurring under duress , while the Vauxhall 's brakes feel mushy but are stronger and more consistent in their behaviour . |
| 29 | Fungus is rarely a primary invader of the fish , only occurring in the later stages of disease when fish are heavily infected by protozoa , flukes and bacteria . |
| 30 | In other words , doubts as to the proper division of property at death , as well as rights between living partners , were resolved by having legal rules prescribing a formula , but only applying within the context of a sanctioned , and thereby state-controlled , relationship . |