Example sentences of "only take [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 'll only take hold of this damn bag so I can go I will . |
| 2 | We need now only take note of the most salient features . |
| 3 | But we could only take care of little children ! |
| 4 | The machine could only take material of a certain size — not a whole figure , for example — and so fragments were collaged together . |
| 5 | The criteria adopted by the Court of Appeal in Newell ( 1980 ) were that courts should only take account of characteristics with which the provocation was concerned ; permanent characteristics such as race and , probably , religion may be taken into account , but transient conditions such as intoxication and exhaustion may not . |
| 6 | Increasingly , then , when we examine social change in rural England we must not only take account of changes within agriculture but of changes on the interface between the ‘ truly rural ’ ( i.e-agricultural ) inhabitants and the ‘ adventitious ’ population of ex-urbanite newcomers who have moved into the countryside in such large numbers since the war . |