Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A telephone poll conducted by TV Asahi on January 17th found only 25% in favour of the war and 53% against . |
| 2 | For Janacek , this deserved only contempt : ‘ Today 's opera … |
| 3 | This affects only union preferences , and not the MD curve ( see equation 8 ) . |
| 4 | Planting can be undertaken in the same way as described for the conventional pool , but be careful to select only plants that are of modest growth . |
| 5 | 1988 : 47–84 ; Enloe 1978 ; Pockrass 1986 ; Weitzer 1985 , 1986 , 1987 a , b ) , this forms only part of RUC duties , given the special position of Northern Ireland among divided societies . |
| 6 | There were differences between the trials : some included only stage IV NSCLC whereas others also included stage III B ; the eligibility criteria varied ( age , presence of brain metastasis , previous chest radiotherapy ) ; and different chemotherapy regimens were used , although a vindesine ( or vinblastine ) and cisplatin regimen was used in 4 trials . |
| 7 | The ceiling on sea-launched , nuclear-tipped cruise missiles was agreed at 880 , but this covered only missiles with a range of more than 600 km . |
| 8 | But against their gross revenues and then standardized for a person earning $15,000 per annum this represented only $96 . |
| 9 | Research in one village of 200 households revealed one-third had disposable incomes of £30,000 a year or more but another had only £6,000 or less . |
| 10 | This leaves only 10% to finance newer activities . |
| 11 | Nineteen owned only evening papers . |
| 12 | Each one is worth a thousand words , but a pack of six costs only £2.85 . |
| 13 | A box of six costs only 69p ( 11.5p each ) . |
| 14 | The facts , as presented by Yuri Korelev , show that the six commercial exhibitions held in 1990 and 1991 raised only $630,000 towards its current deficit . |
| 15 | The first phone was broken and the second took only phone cards . |
| 16 | The Welshman dropped four shots in the first four holes , and was relieved to finish only three-over-par . |
| 17 | The mutant form of the endonuclease R· Eco K ts-1 produced only 20% linear DNA at 30°C and about 10% at 42°C . |
| 18 | These cost only fourpence a pound and no doubt were a good means to provide longer life to footwear . |
| 19 | These give only amendments and repeals since 1947 ( the year when Current Law began ) , which is satisfactory if your main statute was passed after 1947 , but otherwise not . |
| 20 | But the 150th anniversary of Mozart 's death in 1941 brought only eulogies of the standard old-fashioned kind ( as well as some Nazi-inspired pan-Germanic accretions ) , and Mozart was still on his ornamental pedestal for the commemoration of his 200th birthday in 1956 . |
| 21 | Even the minimum tax proposal described below was estimated by the Joint Congressional Committee on Taxation as likely to raise only $1bn over four years . |
| 22 | Next month it is likely to get only 1% . |
| 23 | But what made him choose to devote himself to mathematics was his finding in 1795 of the criterion for a regular n-gon to be constructible using only compass and straightedge . |
| 24 | Because of the single decision , the union is able to choose only wages ( Blair and Crawford , 1984 , p. 550 ) . |
| 25 | From the back of the room where they were made to stand apart from the family for the rest of the ceremony , the three children were able to hear only snatches of their grandfather 's words as he conducted a long discourse praising the virtues of his dead parent . |
| 26 | Mitsubishi still clings to the option of being able to use only rear-wheel-drive on the road , claiming it 's quieter and less expensive on fuel and tyres . |
| 27 | He himself was able to bequeath only plate and household goods , and to request in his will to be buried under a ‘ plain black stone ’ with a simple inscription recording his Christian belief . |
| 28 | If a business makes both exempt and taxable supplies , it is said to be partially exempt and will be able to recover only part of the input VAT . |
| 29 | They had been able to recover only 10% of their set-up costs and 28% of their recurring costs in chargeout rates . |
| 30 | A TOTALLY pointless crime happened last week in Milton Keynes when office thieves made off with a computer — that speaks only Japanese ! |