Example sentences of "they [verb] only [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , they agreed only to more muddle . |
| 2 | Many people will not realise that there is a property element built in and that they qualify only for the 25 per cent . |
| 3 | In fact they deserved every sympathy but they succeeded only in making themselves look obstructive and unreconstructed , relics of the pre-meritocratic days before the Heineken League , which of course they fought until the last ditch was so full of water they had to jump out . |
| 4 | They arose only in the short uneasy period passed between land and water . |
| 5 | Today they cared only about themselves . |
| 6 | As a rule , they tend only to be recommended for people starting a plan within five years of their retirement . |
| 7 | The pace was fast ; they stopped only at way stations which were situated every hundred verst or so to change st'lyan . |
| 8 | Everyone in our sample cases agreed that the law is the law and must be enforced ; they disagree only about what the law in fact was . |
| 9 | Half of these mothers said they smacked only in anger ; the remainder used smacking deliberately as a disciplinary technique . |
| 10 | The majority of farm servants stayed only the one year with their master after the annual hiring , but they moved only into the service of other farmers drawing labour from the same hiring fair . |
| 11 | They appear only to be concerned with the present and future quality of the labour market and the need to have a better and more highly trained workforce . |
| 12 | Once more , however , they provided only for small numbers and their success even in establishing this few in permanent work or independence appears to have been small . |
| 13 | We hope that it has not escaped the reader that the predictions concerning the different effects of word and feature masks do not depend on the mask being a word ; they depend only on the mask being composed of letters . |
| 14 | Since it is not involved in the management of the company it is in a position to monitor and check the performance of the executives actually managing the company , to ensure that they act only in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 15 | They played only in the morning , to put themselves six or eight hours away from a place by dark . |
| 16 | For the rest of the decade they shone only on training sessions and ground maintenance work , and it was not until 1951 , some twenty years after Chapman 's enthusiastic advocacy , that the first official floodlit match was held , between Southampton and Tottenham reserves at the Dell . |
| 17 | To begin with they travel only at night and often they may not go much more than a mile . |
| 18 | The rows of holes on the punchcards do not refer to knitted rows , they refer only to the selection of needles to form the lace pattern . |
| 19 | Unlike Persian rugs , where the name of the weaving group is an indication , if not a guarantee , of a certain quality , the " Persian " names used by Indian weavers are totally useless as pointers tot he quality of an individual item ; they refer only to the design , and must never be taken as indicating that the rug also emulates the quality and structural characteristics of the original . |
| 20 | Speech act theory begins with the observation that there is a class of highly ritualistic utterances which carry no information about the world outside language at all , because they refer only to themselves . |
| 21 | Theoretically , the Council should have been a cross-section of the people socially ( as we have seen it was geographically ) : its members were appointed by lot , they served only for a year at a time , so that the Councillors should not have felt themselves to be a cohesive hereditary body like the old Areopagus or the ( semi-hereditary ) Roman Senate , and they could not serve more than twice in their lives . |
| 22 | For many it will involve no more than a ritualised acknowledgement , mediated by the Church , of a realm of ultimate value which , if it does in fact inform their existence , they know only through blind obedience to the Church 's teaching : They have : Those for whom Hilton is writing , however , are those who are driven either intellectually ( Scale 1 , c.4 ) or emotionally ( Scale 1 , c.5 ) towards integrating an inner life of moral values and spiritual sensitivity with Christian teaching . |
| 23 | Thus the returns going to labour and capital are not simply allocated by the hidden hand of the market ; they stabilise only as the outcome of conflict . |
| 24 | He said that the tests could not ascertain whether the public was at risk from contaminated water because they relied only on healthy volunteers and beaches which met certain standards . |
| 25 | But they succeed only in making themselves look ridiculous . |
| 26 | The strains of Wagner had certainly filled those rented rooms in Earl 's Court or South Kensington , to the annoyance of the neighbours , though like his practical study of the German language they belonged only to the period of Hitler 's influence upon him . |
| 27 | A water where they feed both on the bottom and at the surface can be outwardly identical to one where they feed only on the bottom . |
| 28 | They worked only in white , for unlike the Egyptians , Sudanese men wore only white gallibayas and pantaloons . |
| 29 | Do they happen only on routes which are well known to the driver ? |
| 30 | They are in the ownership of their communities , which we should support in their endeavours — not try to take over something that they started only in 1982 , when the first neighbourhood watch began . |