Example sentences of "[adv] only [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rationale of the putting-out system was that it enabled the merchant capitalist to draw on only as much labour as he needed at any given condition of the market . |
| 2 | Indeed , fog can overwhelm the city on as many as 15 days in a winter month , while that will happen on only about 2 days a month in summer . |
| 3 | Now she is able to eat again , although naturally only very little and often but already she is feeling stronger and is doing exercises to build up the muscles which had become so weak . |
| 4 | Did n't have a great long list , perhaps only about six or ten major P L C's . |
| 5 | Perhaps only about 30 per cent of jobs within UDG-supported schemes were new to the area , although of these , three-quarters were new to the national economy . |
| 6 | As a matter of interest , Mr Rees took a head count , asking how many members in the hall were aware of the impending changes ; apparently only about 30 per cent of the audience knew of the proposed amendments . |
| 7 | got home late last night — left N. at 2.30 which was 1.30pm our time and then got , just — with literally only about four minutes to spare once he had rung me , the 6pm train from Kings Cross . |
| 8 | Though this collective of co-operatives pulls in only as much premium income as some of Britain 's big insurance companies , Lloyd 's is synonymous with British insurance . |
| 9 | The answer to his first point is that it is absolutely clear that a number of people who break their bail conditions are remanded in custody when they are brought back to the court ; but that happens in only about six out of 10 cases , and in four out of 10 cases when those who break their bail conditions are brought back to the court , it seems that they are no longer remanded in custody but are again let out on bail . |
| 10 | Overlap of turns occurs in only about 5 per cent of conversation or less , strongly suggesting that speakers somehow know exactly when and where to enter ( Ervin-Tripp 1979 ) . |
| 11 | A big avon , bulk shotted in only about three feet of racing water . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the need to include parking spaces always puts undesirable constraints on the development itself , by for example limiting the areas of open space available and by vastly increasing the costs of building ; underground carparks are not only enormously expensive but also ‘ unnatural ’ in a Georgian/Victorian city like Edinburgh . |
| 13 | Post-Freudian forms of sexual difference theory are not only largely ignorant of that pre-sexological , pre-psychoanalytic history ; they even tend to obscure the significance and scope of Freud 's own emphasis on the significance of perversion within sexual difference . |
| 14 | The underwear was not only surprisingly clean , it was also pretty with ribbons and bows . |
| 15 | The problem is to come up with an analysis and structure which is not only reasonably clear and self-consistent in terms of concepts of knowledge , but which maps on to and helps to explain the curricular structures that are already in place . |
| 16 | Although the specific evidence is complex , the conclusions are not only impressively convincing , but also beautifully simple . |
| 17 | They thus occupy a rather special place in the spectrum of infectious human disease , since , without being able to find the germ responsible , it is not only rather difficult to be sure that the disease is present in the first place , but , having given a treatment for which there can be no de finite evidence of efficacy , since no organism has been eliminated , it can be very difficult to tell whether the infection has resolved or even whether the patient is better . |
| 18 | The rationale for not keeping creditors accounts is not only rather shortsighted ( because you might lose the goodwill of your suppliers ) but it does not apply to debtors accounts — it is for certain that you will want to know precisely who owes you money and how much they owe you . |
| 19 | Inflation is not only economically debilitating ; it is also cruelly unfair . |
| 20 | If he thinks that he can come back to the House , whatever the supine press may say , and present it as a triumph for Britain that he has managed to prevent those provisions from being applied in this country , although they are being applied everywhere else , he shows that the Government are not only economically bankrupt but bankrupt of values . |
| 21 | We need people who are not only economically literate , but politically and socially literate , well informed about and sensitive to crucial social and moral issues ; we must be developing a society whose members are aware and tolerant of others and manifest concern for their welfare . |
| 22 | When she wrote that Christmas message the Queen was not only acutely aware that her daughter 's divorce was looming , but also that the marriages of Charles and Andrew had failed miserably . |
| 23 | 'But from about 1330 there is a steady decline in regularity and architectural quality : even in formal documents the writing is not only strongly cursive but wanting in discipline , and suggests an unsuccessful attempt to reconcile the claims of ceremoniousness and speed' ( Hector , op cit ) . |
| 24 | Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , in considering the discretion to exclude evidence on the ground of unfairness , it could not sensibly be judged by different standards depending on the source of the discretion , for the criteria of unfairness were the same whether the discretion arose at common law or under section 78 of the Act of 1984 ; and that , since the judge had considered the operation including obtaining the fingerprints as a whole , the exercise of his discretion was not only not unreasonable but was correct ( post , pp. 234H — 235A , 236A ) . |
| 25 | Pope Damasus was not only not present , he was not even represented . |
| 26 | The other factor we should also bear in mind is the great majority of the people are not only not interested , they 're basically hostile the whole business and I think that members may not have really noticed if they looked at the European newspaper , the highest ever figure , fifty three percent of all the people of Britain are now totally and completely opposed to the whole business of the E C , they do n't think it 's a good idea . |
| 27 | The day before we were due to leave , he came up to our room after lunch and began by saying that perhaps it was n't so sensible for Flora to continue her journey by herself , travelling by local buses across the Atlas , and not only not sensible but not altogether safe , even though she was tough and independent and used to looking after herself . |
| 28 | Any such inducement or interference is not only not actionable at law . |
| 29 | The preferences of the state are at least as important as those of civil society in accounting for what the democratic state does and does not do ; the democratic state is not only frequently autonomous insofar as it regularly acts upon its preferences , but also markedly autonomous in doing so even when its preferences diverge from the demands of the most powerful groups in civil society ( Nordlinger , 1981 , p. 1 ) . |
| 30 | The substitution is thus not only inherently costly , but it evokes increased demand or , if you like , creates increased need . |