Example sentences of "[adj] only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The railway company consistently quote this only incident , but the train was really at fault . |
| 32 | Actions like this only lead to bad feeling , especially when there are a number of established classics like Showtime , Urgent Action and The Ripper that he could have done instead . |
| 33 | Oliver stared around the dark , airless shop at the coffins , some finished , some only half-made . |
| 34 | The majority of the cargo was sold off — forty only sailing on to Spanish Town to make a token showing for the records . |
| 35 | no , it 's personal only joke |
| 36 | In this case a sequential search would be of O(n/2) , on average only half of the array would be searched , for both successful and unsuccessful searches . |
| 37 | Primary productivity is generally low , averaging 10–50mg C m -2 daily in May and June and rising to 70–80 mg C m -2 daily during the summer peak of production ; on average only 6–12g C m -2 fixed throughout the year ( Kalff , 1970 ; Minns , 1977 ) . |
| 38 | How many employee employers , I E British Home Stores , have paid off their full-time staff and given them part-time only employment . |
| 39 | It is worth knowing that you can run Qbasic from a floppy only system and using earlier version of MS-DOS all you need are the three files listed to be stored on the current drive . |
| 40 | No false-positives or false-negatives were obtained with the MG3 medium only control or with the remaining three mycobacterial control cultures , with either polymerase chain reaction assay . |
| 41 | It is by no means surprising , therefore , to find that the vast majority of items in Social Studies and Science papers demand straight recall of specific facts and that teaching is adjusted accordingly : in one paper analysed in Botswana out of fifty questions , forty-nine required only recall of factual information . |
| 42 | The guiding light in Lewis 's life then went with her son to speak to the pupils of Bellahouston Academy and visit a retail development on the outskirts of Glasgow before he rounded off his day in the male only setting of the St Andrew 's Sporting club by watching Scotland 's Kris McAdam fight . |
| 43 | Other rarities include the second only record in London of the foliose lichen Peltigera didactyla , which was only discovered during the survey , funded by WWF and UK2000 . |
| 44 | The Special Commissioner ruled in this dispute that , for the purpose of valuing shares in private companies for which there was no market , under s 38 , FA 1975 only arm 's length sales for cash in shares in the same companies were admissible as evidence . |
| 45 | Her mouth was being taken with a possessive intensity that obliterated thought and left only sensation . |
| 46 | He ( or she ) , in turn , is appraised from above and woe betide him if he ( or she ) has given his ( or her ) subordinate only lip service ! |
| 47 | Of these only hippopotamus teeth , which are denser and harder than ivory and of a gleaming whiteness , featured in any of the ancient civilizations . |
| 48 | That 's an unleaded only pump I think . |
| 49 | ‘ It 's all only fun . ’ |
| 50 | It 's all only dust . ’ |
| 51 | The problem was then , as it is today : many only pay lip service to what the love of Cod actually means . |
| 52 | Many only record data and perform simple calculations such as adding up columns or working out averages . |
| 53 | It 's admissible only reaction . |
| 54 | The plots , counterplots , dead bodies and other nasty goings-on are laced with a soupçon of romantic interest to take it out of the boys- only category . |
| 55 | SINGER Melanie O'Reilly drew a standing-room only attendance for the last of the inaugural season of Assembly Direct 's ‘ The Jazz Club ’ promotions . |
| 56 | At Dovey Junction a new stand-up only passenger shelter has been erected following the demolition of the old buildings . |
| 57 | In 1987 only half of the Progressive Democrats ' 14 TDs were elected on quotas made up of first-preference votes given to them or to party running-mates from whom they were transferred . |
| 58 | ( Strange , very strange ! ) the Scritch-owl only wak 'd , |
| 59 | Blackburn now look to be the only only team capable of catching scum . |
| 60 | Well I can mind us making a wreath at school when Miriam died , that was the only only body I ever remember dying when I was at school . |