Example sentences of "[pron] only [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignorant me only knows of a Paris ‘ Conservatoire ’ , but I presume there must be such an august institution nearer to hand ( and foot ) . |
| 2 | 'E only talks about everyday fings . |
| 3 | He has shown that a black hole of mass M radiates like a black body at a temperature which only differs by a factor of 4π from the temperature deduced above . |
| 4 | Mr Hetherington continues the cynicism in his match report , two thirds of which only rakes over the ashes of the Turnbull report . |
| 5 | A clear /l/ is the more liquid sounding allophone of /l/ , which only occurs before a vowel in English and has no velarisation . |
| 6 | There has been much confusion here mainly because the SGA 1979 uses the words " condition " and " warranty " as technical expressions , the breach of which gives the right to treat the contract as at an end in the case of a condition ( s11(3) of SGA 1979 ) , or in the case of a subsidiary term like a warranty , the breach of which only sounds in damages ( s61(1) of SGA 1979 ) . |
| 7 | They will be debating a European Commission directive which only calls on EC television stations to screen a majority of European programmes , where possible . |
| 8 | The problem of administrative inconvenience resulting from the quashing of decisions with retrospective effect might also be capable of being overcome in some cases by some form of prospective relief ( that is , relief which only operates in the future ) . |
| 9 | It has become commonplace to observe that the precious yet precarious Churchill Ian , stiff-upper-lip culture which only materializes in the midst of national adversity — underneath the arches , down in the air-raid shelters where Britannia enjoyed her finest hours — is something from which blacks are excluded . |
| 10 | However , the text editor was more accommodating , and had all the utility of the address book except its auto-dialler , which only works with tone-phones ( you hold the machine 's tiny speaker against the phone ) and anyway makes you look like an idiot . |
| 11 | This at least allows you to make the best of poor job ; a package which only works at the screen resolution could be a fifth the quality , or worse . |
| 12 | a combine , which only works for a few days or weeks in the year is far too costly for a smallholder , who must either rely on a contractor or work with simpler equipment . |
| 13 | It can be much worse if you are selling as well as buying , for you are then involved in a dreaded thing called ‘ the chain' , which only moves at the pace of the slowest , if it does not disintegrate along the way and put you back to square one . |
| 14 | It certainly seems to escape the circularity inherent in a Kantian attempt to link the particularity of entities with the numerical identity of the places that such entities occupy in a general spatio-temporal framework , which only leads to the problem of having to presuppose the existence of numerically identical entities in order to be able to refer to identical places . |
| 15 | ( i ) The facts of the case must come within the section , which only applies to , the " faulty execution of … construction , maintenance or repair … |
| 16 | Why not do it and leave it ready the day before , then all that is needed is one minute to set the garter carriage in operation and you will come home to a sleeve which only has to be cast off . |
| 17 | Long 's playing in the Concerto possesses feather-light dexterity with sly , wittily contrasted phrasing , which only serves to emphasis the nonchalant brilliance and simplicity of her interpretation . |
| 18 | From this you might learn about Richardson 's method of writing , as well as about differences between writing which is really private compared to writing which only pretends to be private . |
| 19 | Three hundred thousand foxes are killed annually in this country , either through hunting , which only attributes to a small two point percent , shooting , gassing , snaring , all of which happen during the hunting season as well . |
| 20 | At very least this habit will get us out of a rigid frame of mind which only looks at the problem in away determined by experience . |
| 21 | The direction only applies to evidence which a party " intends to place reliance on " and so can not apply to new evidence which only comes to light after the time for serving statements has passed . |
| 22 | This is the cheaper version which only comes in aluminium |
| 23 | The incompetent , therefore , are the bookish , the ‘ smart ’ ones , those who have the theory but not the common sense , which only comes from experience and practice . |
| 24 | Because the history of the world , which only stops at the half-house of love to bulldoze it into rubble , is ridiculous without it . |
| 25 | The vast majority of the black people follow his wing of the ANC ( not Nkomo who only represents at best 20% ) . |
| 26 | They will go to the concert , Beuno and Elizabeth and Hywel all together , and they will sing ; but not Elizabeth , who only hums in the house and who will be watching all the time to see if he is there . |
| 27 | For the vast majority of these people , unemployment is a direct consequence of a government who only cares about those who have , and could not care less about those who have not . |
| 28 | Yeah but Arthur she only takes after you for that . |
| 29 | She only swallows as a special treat if I 've been really good or something . |
| 30 | no she only works at nights and she was asking about nights for Carrie you see , cos I |