Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] have only [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Initiatives such as Sematech helped US industry to catch up , but Grove sees this as having only held the advance of Japanese manufacturers .
2 ‘ We knew the water was dangerous and had only gone in to our knees .
3 Nurse Geeson said she had been a staff nurse on the children 's ward for ten years up to 1991 and had only come across four or five occasions when children suffered heart or respiratory attacks .
4 ‘ Ideal ’ family size in 1967 was about 2.4 and has only declined marginally since .
5 In the pellets or scats of many of the predators the teeth are either not broken at all or have only suffered minor damage , and these are for the most part the same species for which little damage to the jaws is evident .
6 I saw an E Sierra in the paper for about three thousand that had only done forty thousand er , an estate .
7 Some of the claims have been on the basis of debatable information , and all have been highly selective and have only drawn attention to the adverse elements of research whilst ignoring much encouraging , positive information .
8 He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) .
9 The Swansea and Neath Society was founded in December 1822 but made no appeal through a public meeting until January 1826 ; the Manchester Society , although becoming active at the beginning of 1824 , issued no report to the public until March 1827 and had only had its first public meeting on 22 March 1826 .
10 Baby sea-lions have been born at Belfast before but have always been born dead or have only survived a few hours .
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