Example sentences of "have only " in BNC.
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| 1 | and things , job families er , we 've got that already and we 've got , there 's gon na be the computer thing on careers but you see we 've only managed this year to get it brought down from year eleven , somebody who went into this , keeping it very close to myself , to bring it down to year ten they 're actually you know , it 's very , very difficult to let them remove it and I ca n't see that you can then make that down to ninth year just yet . |
| 2 | You ca n't we 've only got two lights here |
| 3 | I 've left my computer programme going , God knows what it 's gon na do I 've only got half an hour to finish it ! |
| 4 | You see they , they 've only got so long on this site with that van |
| 5 | Yeah you see I 've only got fifty two and I 've got eight hundred quid less than you |
| 6 | And I do n't I 've only got one left . |
| 7 | Yeah see I 've only got like erm two quid on me and I need to get home tomorrow and and I wo n't have anywhere to stay cos Dan and Honey are n't going and I 'd rather stick with them and Emma and Nick and just go back to erm Nick 's house |
| 8 | One has only to imagine what would happen if the books on the shelf behind the sitter 's head were upright , like the others , to realize on what delicate adjustments the solidity of this amazing structure depends … |
| 9 | The corollary is that some catalogue information has only a limited life , since it may in its turn be overtaken by new research . |
| 10 | The British reader has only to listen to the sounds that protest makes in his own streets , to the cruel , brutal voices that bellow over loudhailers about injustice and the disadvantaged . |
| 11 | Vocational training for the actor as we know it has only existed in England for the last eighty years . |
| 12 | Remember that drama school has only prepared you to work . |
| 13 | On the one hand , force has been required to subordinate it , and , on the other , it has always threatened to outbreed protestant loyalists , an outcome which has only been avoided by catholic — nationalist migration over the past seventy years . |
| 14 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 15 | There was a very light cross wind from the right which caused a swing in that direction , and as the Nimbus has only a tail-skid , it swung as it started its take-off run . |
| 16 | It exists largely as a product of the institutions of higher education ( Sarsby 1984 : 132 ) and has only recently begun to surface in policy and practice . |
| 17 | He has only expressed what a lot of other people have been starting to fear for a long time , that unless the commercial manipulators in tennis are careful , they could cook the golden goose . |
| 18 | Even Mary Vetsera has only one wish , to be possessed by him , and is prepared to go to any lengths to achieve that end . |
| 19 | The brewery has only horizontal tanks , in which the fermenting wort is a mere 2.8 metres high . |
| 20 | As a long time drinker of real ale , who has only joined CAMRA in the last year , I found this belly-aching very annoying . |
| 21 | The sector to the right ( The Quiquillon ) has only a few hard climbs , but its other side , hidden from the village and approached from a parking place reached by driving through a housing estate just before the village , has many fine , steep routes , often with three pitches , at all standards . |
| 22 | One has only to read recent editions of Climber and Hill Walker to see evidence of atrocious behaviour by climbers and walkers : abuse , noise , breaking down fences , fouling areas with litter and excrement and climbing in areas when specifically requested to desist for good safety reasons — at Cheddar and Upper Pentrwyn . |
| 23 | Nastasya the maid has only to hand Raskolnikov a bowl of soup for his mental structures to be set trembling in their unrealism . |
| 24 | The nurse trope , I admit , shares America 's power to open human doors the further side of whimsicality , but that is because the suicide letter has only one foot in the completely flat uncomic abstract world of negation talk . |
| 25 | Stepan Verkhovensky has only himself to elope with , and it remains an open question whether he will go on enduring the indignities of his hanger-on position , or cut and run , somehow , somewhere . |
| 26 | The voltages in ( C3 , C2 , and C1 ) , each charge CL through two diodes in series , but the charging path through C4 has only one diode , D11 . |
| 27 | Indeed , Bakhtin provides an example of someone whose thought has only become influential in the years following his death . |
| 28 | The publicity his ideas have attracted has only deepened the tragedy : the bad influence of those he has himself influenced has added frivolity to the obscurity … |
| 29 | Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say , or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it . |
| 30 | In his minute , inaccessible capital , which today has only 15,000 inhabitants , Nicholas erected a miniature European court and an exquisitely furnished Victorian palace . |