Example sentences of "only [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nostrils had only been gone for ten minutes before the speaker announced : |
| 2 | Benjamin 's mother was lying paralysed in Shoreditch Workhouse even as the portrait was being executed , and he himself had only been saved from abject poverty after his father 's premature death by the generous good offices of his uncle , Samuel Hasted . |
| 3 | However , it has only been tested on one domain . |
| 4 | Freddie did not manage to keep us in the Cup against the powerful Rangers outfit but , usually playing at centre-forward , he steadily repaid that fee several times over during the first five post-war seasons , for not only has his tally of 48 League goals only been exceeded by six players here at The Palace since then , but his goals were scored in struggling Palace teams , which only once finished in the upper half of the League table . |
| 5 | A corresponding survey , carried out in Sweden in 1981 , found that orientation courses had only been evaluated in 8 libraries of 34 , one-third of the libraries had evaluated courses in manual information retrieval and about half the libraries with courses in computerized information retrieval had carried out some form of evaluation . |
| 6 | He said that the message that " environment means business " had only been understood by few companies , and that small and medium-sized ones in particular had been slow to recognize the opportunities . |
| 7 | The structures of Employee Involvement have only been accepted by salaried staff ; shopfloor unions have refused to make a formal commitment to the programme , which is regarded as contrary to the established contractual job-control orientation of workplace trade unions . |
| 8 | In practice micro-corporatism of this sort has only been undertaken with any consistency by local government and their agencies ( such as the enterprise boards ) or by the development agencies ( see , for example , Greater London Council ( 1985 ) and Murray ( 1987 ) ) . |
| 9 | In the past members wanting to enforce rights against their union were burdened with the costs of litigation , which may have only been mitigated to some extent by the availability of legal aid . |
| 10 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 11 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 12 | The defences at Alcester have only been found at one point on the north-west side by the river , and are of two periods with a wall supported by timber piles , close enough to the river bank as not to need a ditch system at this point . |
| 13 | The construction of a large grammar represents a major problem in it 's own right which has only been attempted by well-funded projects . |
| 14 | Unfortunately the detailed work on which that revision is itself based has only been published in Soviet journals in Russian , so has not stood the test of scrutiny by Western astronomers . |
| 15 | Plenty of them had only been raped over one period of 24 hours but never less than by six or seven men . |
| 16 | ‘ In no case where we interviewed had the woman only been raped by one man . |
| 17 | State enterprises may be converted into limited-liability companies or joint-stock companies , but financial institutions or saving co-operatives may only be converted into joint-stock companies . |
| 18 | Japan claims that essential data on the Minke population can only be obtained from dead whales . |
| 19 | Second , no respectable economist derives a trend by comparing a trough year ( 1981 ) with a peak ( 1988 ) : sensible figures can only be obtained by contrasting peak-with-peak or trough-with-trough . |
| 20 | 15 Army Group had given instructions [ KP 153 ] to Eighth Army on 7 May that surrender can only be accepted of those forces in contact with Eighth Army . |
| 21 | 1.1 Any order sent to the Seller by the Purchaser shall be accepted entirely at the discretion of the Seller , and , if so accepted , will only be accepted upon these conditions ( hereafter referred to as the " Conditions " ) and by means of the Seller 's standard order acknowledgement form . |
| 22 | CANCELLATION : When you book your accommodation , you will be entering into a legally binding contract which can only be broken by mutual consent . |
| 23 | Owing to its high alkaline requirement it should only be grown with those plants with the same preference . |
| 24 | Lucerne , on which Young set such high hopes , could only be grown on deep soils or on irrigated land , and there it was to produce a minor revolution . ’ |
| 25 | As it can only be grown in Northern India among the foothills of the Himalayas , it is naturally always in great demand and once you savour the fragrance and taste of the rice for yourself you will understand why . |
| 26 | It is Horsey Mere , and the causeway across it ( the Wade ) can only be crossed within two hours each way of low tide . |
| 27 | Such discrepancies can only be bridged by national funding . ’ |
| 28 | He quoted Lord Atkin that the doctrine of public policy ‘ should only be invoked in clear cases in which the harm to the public is substantially incontestable , and does not depend upon the idiosyncratic inferences of a few judicial minds ’ . |
| 29 | In Stage II , however , resits may only be given on compulsory modules , normally including projects and dissertations . |
| 30 | The first is that the retention by the state of taxes unlawfully exacted is particularly obnoxious , because it is one of the most fundamental principles of our law — enshrined in a famous constitutional document , the Bill of Rights 1688 — that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament ; and full effect can only be given to that principle if the return of taxes exacted under an unlawful demand can be enforced as a matter of right . |