Example sentences of "[adj] only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hung on to most of the key marginals , with Labour only managing to win three of the eight constituencies it hoped to capture despite increasing its vote in almost every seat . |
| 2 | Labour only pledge , of course , to er to spend money on pensions and child benefit , so the shadow treasury tell us . |
| 3 | Rayner can not resist the British crow that they started downhill at Montana , Switzerland , in 1911 ; or that the Wengen Swiss are everlastingly grateful to the Downhill Only Club ( otherwise , not too literately , the DHO ) for teaching them how to race and how to lose . |
| 4 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 5 | That er lived in this house and they were the the real grass roots of the old Labour Party , the real socialists , not like the ones that we know today that only pay lip service to it . |
| 6 | What the NEA and Frohnmayer 's troubles have made clear is that only leadership , intelligent , proud and committed , can explain to the American people what great art , validated by time and genius , can bring to heal a split society . |
| 7 | She had tried to pretend that only discretion was holding him back . |
| 8 | that only knowledge or skills ( such as language skills ) of national relevance are worth testing ; |
| 9 | However , until very recently the accepted wisdom ( CRC , 1977a ) has been that only manufacturing jobs can provide the sort of economic basis needed for sustained job provision , and that neither hill farming or forestry , as shown in Table 5.10 , or service employment and tourism could provide a long-term solution to rural employment problems . |
| 10 | All the forceful tact Aunt Tossie possessed was needed to convince Dada that only champagne , the best champagne , would be appropriate to the occasion , and then to compel him into the stony depths of the cellars to root with Twomey along the half-empty bins where forgotten treasures spoiled . |
| 11 | That only cost sixty pound , I said only , well it 's better than a hundred pounds she said . |
| 12 | First , consider mutations that only affect adult survival ( ) . |
| 13 | An alternative to having a separate entry for every word-form is that only base forms are listed in the lexicon , together with a set of lexical rules for deriving all regularly inflected forms of the base item , and a listing of all irregularly inflected forms . |
| 14 | Priced at £4.95 a bottle which when diluted equals 82p per usable litre , AirX is claimed to be good value , say the manufacturers , when compared to spending money on products that only mask smells . |
| 15 | Work itself with its complicated fluctuation of task was seen as too complicated for a worker to understand and the belief was that only management could do so . |
| 16 | Roger O'Doherty , secretary of Age Concern in Derry , said : ‘ We wish it to be known that only evening activities are curtailed at present in the Whyte House . |
| 17 | The character table shows us that only e' and a 2 " vibrations , corresponding to dipole changes in the x/y and z directions , respectively , can be IR active , so we expect five fundamental bands in the IR spectrum of PF 5 . |
| 18 | She said that only time would tell , but the kidney appeared to be a good match . |
| 19 | The only requirements are that cardboard boxes are flattened before being placed into cages and that only cardboard is deposited , unless otherwise specified . ’ |
| 20 | The radical implications of this assertion can be gleaned from an observation of Montaigne 's : ‘ We may easily discern , that only custom makes that seem impossible unto us , which is not so ’ ( Essays , trans . |
| 21 | I must stress that only aluminium cans are acceptable and , if possible , they should be crushed as they take up less room . |
| 22 | Credit Data told us that their policy was that only information about people under the same name should be passed where there was any possibility of multiple occupancy at a given address , but we felt that at least at the time of our visit this policy might not be clearly understood by the operators themselves , who might give information about people with other names at the given address , too . |
| 23 | The second principle is that only information which is known to be reasonably accurate and which is capable of being maintained in a reasonably accurate state should be stored within the system . |
| 24 | As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall . |
| 25 | There were grounds for believing that only fear of the consequences of dismantling UNRWA for the stability of the host governments guaranteed the perpetuation of its services , pending a solution to the refugee problem . |
| 26 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 27 | For the next four years he was symptom free only while on elemental diet despite at least 12 week trials of prednisolone , azathioprine , and methotrexate . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's very different only qualifying for 30 minutes and not for an hour . |
| 29 | The English only fire bullets , but in Irish speech any missile to hand can be fired , simply by hurling it . |
| 30 | 1.6.8 shall make available to a camera-ready copy of the English only version of the Documentation . |