Example sentences of "only [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italian government , concerned that the better things should remain in Italy , were delighted to hear that many of them only made the journey by canal from the Cannareggio to the piano nobile of the Palazzo Malpiero . |
| 2 | The area close to the pond was owned by county councillor Peter Constable Maxwell and the Maxwell Family Trust , but the family generously not only made the land available at no charge , but also paid for the landscaping closest to the pond . |
| 3 | Alexander had , up to now , been completely ignorant of this habit , and anything that he did to change it only made the situation worse . |
| 4 | Ruth stood silent ; these urgent words only made the deadness inside her worse . |
| 5 | That the Polish Jews were socially , politically and economically quite distinct from German Jews only made the business easier , since the two groups were at loggerheads with each other . |
| 6 | And , as Dalgliesh had heard him argue , for all their demands for equality of status and opportunity , putting them in the front line behind the riot shields , taking the petrol bombs , the hurled stones and now the bullets , only made the job of their male colleagues even more onerous . |
| 7 | The fact that the three girls who were already employed at Number 147 just giggled whenever I gave any instructions , only made the appointment more pressing . |
| 8 | Reflecting the connection between good teaching and its management and good learning , institutional statements about the principles of in-service work include , as an example , " The ultimate aim of all in-service education for teachers is the improvement of pupil/student learning through the development of teachers as reflective , autonomous professionals who have not only developed a range of skills but also a broad knowledge of understanding of subject content and of the conceptual framework of teaching and learning . " |
| 9 | Frances not only developed a love for foreign food but an obsession for flying : |
| 10 | I hope so , because more meetings on the order of this NIH dog and pony show can only hurt the cause of good biomedical research . |
| 11 | More meetings on the order of this … can only hurt the cause of good biomedical research . ’ |
| 12 | The above four cases only scratch the surface . |
| 13 | The Manager may only prepare the package provided that the package has not yet been submitted for approval . |
| 14 | The Approver may only prepare the package after the package has been submitted for approval . |
| 15 | The forms of written languages undergo constant evolution — as an example , we need only compare a piece of medieval script with a modern printed newspaper . |
| 16 | Dishonesty is also brought out in this scene , when the Duke expects Shylock to forgive Antonio in line 23 ‘ which is a pound of this poor merchant 's flesh , thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture , but touch with human gentleness and love , Forgive a moiety of the principal ; ’ . |
| 17 | To check the statements ‘ comparison with the etching turn out to be optimistic ’ ( Schatborn ) and ‘ there is not a line that resembles Rembrandt 's other drawings of the period ’ ( Royalton-Kisch ) , readers have only to compare the treatment of the back in the drawing with the etching to see that the explanation offered by the experts that they are the product of two separate artists working independently in , ‘ a joint session of study from the model ’ is far fetched . |
| 18 | Much more will be said of the houses of the poor in chapter 3 , but the basic contrast can be readily tested — one has only to compare the range of interiors in the novels of Richardson or Jane Austen with the range in almost any one of Dickens 's novels . |
| 19 | Absorbing the few staff children only involves the school in small extra costs such as food and laundry . |
| 20 | It not only involves the user more demonstrably in the process and provides him or her with a visible record of the interview , but also begins to construct a historical picture of the older person . |
| 21 | The process of assessment , therefore , not only involves the recognition of a problem or issue , and the ability to identify and collect all the relevant information from a variety of sources . |
| 22 | The omission of a material fact only involves an offence where that fact was concealed with dishonest intention . |
| 23 | Also too often they broke away only to lose the initiative by letting the cockney donkeys get back . |
| 24 | In any case I do n't intend to discuss the visual arts as an example of non-verbal communication and I only introduce the topic of drawing to illustrate the extent to which antagonism to language has infiltrated itself into at least one important department of educational theory . |
| 25 | However , the design was only to affect the outside ; inside things must remain the same . |
| 26 | Had Angell and Pownall carried out their instructions and only checked the compliance of the designs with the conditions , much of the criticism of the judges disappears . |
| 27 | We can only presume the allocation for the current financial year is the first element of a rapidly expanding budget over the full five years of the scheme . |
| 28 | The child must not only remedy the situation caused by his or her negligence or transgression but also ‘ overcorrect ’ it to an improved or better-than-usual state . |
| 29 | When correcting a question , it is not satisfactory to give without comment , a mark such as 10/20 ; this only irritates the student and leaves him/her to guess the reason for the loss of marks from the printed solutions ; and often the guess will be incorrect . |
| 30 | The tunic only lacked a head and the tops of the shoulders . |