Example sentences of "[coord] only [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually we do not know all the sites , and we do not know if they were all contemporary or only used seasonally . |
| 2 | Financial constraints on investment were relatively unimportant and only developed subsequently as political concern with state enterprise deficits prompted efforts for greater commercialism . |
| 3 | He has been a member of Dinsdale Golf Club for seven years and only played there about ten times and that is something else he hopes to expand on , he says . |
| 4 | It 'd probably end up banned in America and only shown here . ’ |
| 5 | I should have called round sooner but I 've been on holiday and only returned yesterday to hear the news . |
| 6 | Cahill , an insurance company executive , had spent last week at a seminar in Florida and only returned home on Friday night . |
| 7 | This might be resolved with a written constitution and the formation of user committees ; but committee members sometimes fail to comprehend that they represent the whole user body and only put forward their own ideas . |
| 8 | ‘ And the second time in Norfolk you took a bullet in the right shoulder and only got away by the skin of your teeth , leaving Kurt Steiner behind . ’ |
| 9 | For products that are expensive and only used sporadically an unattractive product may be chosen if it has an exceptional performance as its handling characteristics will ensure that it is only used as a last resort and not used casually when other cheaper products would suffice . |
| 10 | As Rosemary Deem makes clear in the article reproduced here , deliberate and formal distinctions between the education of boys and girls have been made until very recently and only brought formally to a halt through the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act . |
| 11 | Thus , if the corporations in their study were divided into three groups depending on the size of their annual sales , then they calculated that those with sales over $1 billion constituted 42 per cent of all corporations but committed nearly three-quarters of not only all violations but all serious violations , whereas those small firms with sales with less than half a billion dollars constituted nearly one-third of firms analysed but only committed less than 10 per cent of all violations . |
| 12 | He set off with rucksack and typewriter on a round-the-world trip , but only got as far as New Orleans , where , ever the hopeless romantic , he fell in love with a girl he met on a park bench . |
| 13 | REBEL sea captain Jack Lammiman set sail from Whitby on his greatest journey yet to America but only got as far as Scarborough . |