Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee on Safety of Medicines ( personal communication ) has received only a single report of visual disorder associated with chlorambucil — namely , corneal opacity — and the manufacturers ( Wellcome ) have only a single report of optic neuritis , occurring on day 1 of chlorambucil treatment and not resolving on withdrawal . |
| 2 | Is the Minister aware that 18 schools in the Cleveland authority area were built before 1914 and that in the current financial year Cleveland has received only a quarter of its capital allocation ? |
| 3 | The village has attracted only a trickle of visitors . |
| 4 | Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms . |
| 5 | A good deal of language teaching has followed a bottom-up approach , in that it has considered only the formal language system , often in isolated sentences , without demonstrating or developing the way that system operates in context . |
| 6 | The huge world market out there was worth $330 billion between 1989 and 1992 , but the industry has won only a small share of that business . |
| 7 | The Government has said only a full end to violence is acceptable . |
| 8 | She has made only a handful of films in the past 20 years . |
| 9 | The Muslim Brotherhood has made only a marginal impact on Jordanian life since its entry into parliament . |
| 10 | Unlike Western governments , which have been careful to avoid giving the appearance of fomenting unrest in eastern Europe , the Norwegian Nobel committee is thought to be ready to try to advance the cause of democracy in a country which has shown only the most rudimentary signs of change . |
| 11 | Thanks to the vagaries of international politics , Ethiopia has had only a tiny slice of this aid cake . |
| 12 | If the user has requested only a subset the user will be prompted to enter a start and end module name . |
| 13 | Formerly a private hotel , it has needed only a little work to convert it to its new use . |
| 14 | He has played only a handful of games since breaking down with back trouble in St Lucia while touring his native West Indies with England in 1990 . |
| 15 | It is just too important a match to blood a player , who upto now has played only a handful of internationals . |
| 16 | BOYZ II MEN 's ‘ End Of The Road ’ has become only the third single in 30 years to spend more than ten weeks at the top of the Billboard chart . |
| 17 | He has arrived only a short while before , but did not question the order that von Keller gave to Lt Rosen and several men of the 10th Company to remain close to the vehicle and to bring it up to the battalion by road . |
| 18 | Thanks to Peterborough 's Hospital at Home ( HAH ) system , Jessica has spent only a few days in the local district hospital . |
| 19 | This book has discussed only a few of the innovations we shall have to assess in the next five years or so . |
| 20 | Someone who has taken only an option to buy has not ‘ bought or agreed to buy . ’ |
| 21 | She is modest , feeling she has taken only the first steps . |
| 22 | The imagination must replace the lost steeples : the NE chapel of St Sepulchre , topped with the chapel of St Pancras , survives in its transeptal position , but the matching SE chapel of St Mary has lost its upper storey : the adjoining chapel of St Augustine to the W , and its upper chapel of St Michael , are now only crags ; the Bishop 's tower at the NW , late and ill-built , has fallen in , though some of its elevation remains ; and the SW tower of St John has left only a matrix on the W wall . |
| 23 | ‘ This primitive morality was refined by Christianity ; but the passing of Christianity has left only the refinement without the morality … |
| 24 | The solar system has travelled round the galaxy almost 20 times since it was formed , and it has described only a tiny arc of its journey during the two million years that people have been on the Earth . |
| 25 | This has changed only a little over the years , but more recently the need for some sort of central policy for the area has increased . |
| 26 | A landscape which has changed only a little since Tennyson 's birth is now , as it was then , quietly , naturally , yet profoundly charged with a sense-awakening atmosphere . |
| 27 | In the twilight the water , gushing and frothing , looked a long way down but the sound it made felt only a few feet below . |
| 28 | He 'd added only the four to his overnight single , then fell to Rafeill — caught Mark Taylor . |
| 29 | If she 'd had only the clerical level of interface that she was supposed to have , she 'd never have found it . |
| 30 | She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time . |