Example sentences of "only [adv] [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , it may be true that bream only rarely suck from as much as nine inches distance , but I always allow that much on the assumption that they do . |
| 2 | Women , it was generally claimed , were put to do " straight setting " , that is composing lines of type ( by hand for most of the period ) , and only rarely moved from the type-case to do the other tasks regarded as part of the trade ( making up , imposition , locking up chases , carrying formes , etc . ) . |
| 3 | Whatever the mix of capital investment and labour , new designs only rarely emerge from Glascoed : each has to have survived the tortuous processes of ministry procurement and the logistical rigours of subcontracted production — often involving half a dozen other factories , sometimes more . |
| 4 | It looks as if Mr Honecker , 77 and only slowly recovering from a gall-bladder operation , is incapable of grasping the situation in his country . |
| 5 | ‘ The world is only slowly emerging from recession and it is not certain whether Germany 's has been arrested . |
| 6 | In spite of this caveat , the implicit assumptions on which policies are based have only slowly evolved from a colonial , Euro-centric and messianic intellectual frame of reference which has endured the waning of empire and the regaining of political independence of most former colonies . |
| 7 | But the remarkable thing is that three years ago Euravia did n't exist at all — except in the mind of its founder , Denis Mendoros , who had only lately arrived from his native Greece . |
| 8 | Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week . |
| 9 | One was the common ostrich ; the other was the smaller ‘ petise ’ version that Darwin had only just snatched from the jaws of his shipmates . |
| 10 | He says that they were only just recovering from making cuts last year , now they 're having to do the same again ; only this time there will be redundancies . |
| 11 | As expected , she found that subjects were very accurate at distinguishing a sentence they had only just heard from similar sentences with semantic or syntactic changes . |
| 12 | This special place of the Sun in the Galaxy , if confirmed , certainly alters our picture of even the recent geological history of our planet , since we have only just emerged from a spiral arm . |
| 13 | Yeah well of course only just gone from last bloody night have n't they ? |
| 14 | Then there was the question of the paternity of Mrs Clancy 's last child : Mr Clancy had only just returned from Egypt after a two-year posting , and — as Peony had pointed out — the child was only 14 months old . |
| 15 | Miss Driver , 22 , has appeared in the television series Lovejoy , House of Eliott , Casualty and Kinsey , and has only just returned from Budapest — filming a Maigret adventure . |
| 16 | She phoned to say that , having only just returned from Chester , it would be around nine before she could get over with it , and would that be all right ? |
| 17 | She did n't seem surprised to see him sitting there still in his cloak and obviously only just returned from Mass , and he knew at once that she had been told about the murders . |
| 18 | As it happened the new ramp section was only just rescued from a bulldozer in the nick of time as the skate scene said a final goodbye to Andover skatepark . |
| 19 | They had only just recovered from dealing with all the correspondence and presents from the wedding ; six days later , when the pregnancy became official , lorry loads of letters , bibs and baby boots rained down upon them . |
| 20 | In fact , only just recovered from the ringworm , Nijinsky went to Doncaster chiefly to please his owner Charles Englehard who , not surprisingly , coveted the rare sporting distinction of a British Triple Crown . |
| 21 | He had only just recovered from another bout of serious illness and was still extremely weak . |
| 22 | But the Scot has only just recovered from a mystery virus and insists he needs to be involved for some 10 matches before he is back to his best . |
| 23 | Seventh in the English Schools final last year , the 17-year-old Morpeth Harrier has only just recovered from a dislocated hip . |
| 24 | Sir Ranulph 's weight had dropped from 14 to 10 stones and he and Dr Stroud , 37 , had only just recovered from the low blood sugar condition hypoglycaemia . |
| 25 | As curare was only just emerging from obscurity ( see Chapter 6 ) , this was a very prompt seizure of a new opportunity for therapy . |
| 26 | ‘ I may not have been the tallest , nor the most athletic — Mick Doyle reckoned I only ever jumped from my shoulders up — but what I did have was the most effective arse in world rugby ’ . |
| 27 | It was , in fact , natural country with semi-artificial fences which were only slightly altered from their original shape . |
| 28 | It simplifies the algebra to confine attention to the case in which the unstable thermal stratification is weak compared with the stable salt stratification so that the oscillations are only slightly modified from those described by eqns ( 15.21 ) and ( 15.22 ) . |
| 29 | Luckily the 1991 YZR500 is only slightly changed from its 1990 specification and Ruggia quickly felt at home on the new machine . |
| 30 | So for the BBC-designed Dalek the all-important inspiration could only really come from one source ; Raymond Cusick . |