Example sentences of "[adj] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were as usual only a few lone silent figures , sitting in isolation . |
| 2 | The idea that supermarkets should be built on green field sites out of town rather than in the High Street would have seemed absurd only a few years ago . |
| 3 | While most practising firms are having no difficulty in retaining and recruiting staff in the midst of a recession , the situation was , of course , very different only a year or two ago and will probably change again just as rapidly . |
| 4 | Europe contained , for most of the years between 1880 and 1945 , the most important forces in world politics , and was the focus of the arrangements which governed the world : these arrangements left unregulated only the western hemisphere ( and even there the British Royal Navy tacitly provided the under-writing of power needed by the Monroe Doctrine ) . |
| 5 | Ironically perhaps , supplies of some semiconductors which were popular only a few years ago seem to have completely dried up , whereas most valves of around 50 years ago are still available . |
| 6 | He poured the wine and Robyn gradually , inch by inch , moment by moment , found herself slowly beginning to relax , to actually feel comfortable in her surroundings — something she would have thought impossible only a few minutes ago . |
| 7 | These things happen , he said as we were driving along , he 'd done something similar only a few weeks earlier , and he was used to being woken up by the police at 2 o'clock in the morning to rescue deer on the estate . |
| 8 | The moorland and seemingly endless miles of coastal path ( accessible only a few yards from the hotel ) beckon many walkers . |
| 9 | The Education Reform Act 1988 has produced a degree of prescription and central control to which the government was apparently resistant only a couple of years before its enactment . |
| 10 | But the magistrates said French had flouted the court order and his record — of sixty five convictions for animal cruelty — was so serious only a prison sentence was appropriate . |
| 11 | Eventually , however , they concluded that the best the Ministry could do was to prohibit a reduction of charges , though this limited only the most flagrant abuses . |
| 12 | so that by the time the eastern goods reached the Mediterranean only the most uninspiring of the diamonds were left . |
| 13 | Charlie felt seasick only a few minutes after the English coast was out of sight . |
| 14 | The company has refused to explain why its auditors started becoming suspicious only a few months ago and why the dealership was lent $425m as recently as December . |
| 15 | Film actors are not the only ones getting vastly rich : some pop stars command sums that would have been unthinkable only a decade ago . |
| 16 | Others may feel that the cage has become , or is becoming , somewhat more explicit as a result of central government activity — leading to an emphasis upon the direct controls which would have appeared as unthinkable only a decade ago . |
| 17 | But while Kaohsiung 's attention to quality is not unique to Yamaha ( and we should n't forget that lower rejection rates also benefit the manufacturer , translating into lower cost per unit ) , their pioneering attitude , honouring quality above all else , has helped raise the standard of Far Eastern guitars to levels which would have been unthinkable only a few years ago . |
| 18 | Policy discussions at ministerial level appeared to focus mainly on the hoary old issues of which agency should take lead responsibility , ’ but finally , in 1989 , the government took a decision which was considered unthinkable only a year earlier , that is , that local authority social services departments should be given lead responsibility for community care and for all services including mental health , but with some additional controls added in the latter case , the single most controversial of Griffiths ' proposals . |
| 19 | Since the wires are stationary only the disc contributes to the e.m.f. , hence the integration over the closed path reduces to integration along the radius of the disc , yielding |
| 20 | From the European Commission point of view those forms are to cut out fraud and make sure only the genuinely eligible get subsidies . |
| 21 | If parents are not married only the mother has legal responsibility for a child , unless the father has obtained a court order or [ after October 1991 ] the couple have formally agreed that they should both have parental responsibility . |
| 22 | It was as well only the three of them knew about her disappointment . |
| 23 | LEFT Home computers were unheard-of only a couple of decades ago ; now they have become routine magic' . |
| 24 | Some bees come to recognise tripped from untripped flowers and frequent only the former , while others learn to chew a hole in the side of the flower so as to rob untripped blossoms without ever venturing inside . |
| 25 | THE ORGANISERS of the Portuguese Grand Prix , who fined Nigel Mansell $50,000 for allegedly breaking the rules during the race at Estoril on 24 September , said yesterday that their case concerned only the motor racing authorities and is not a civil action as previously thought . |
| 26 | ( First Edition ) THE ORGANISERS of the Portuguese Grand Prix , who fined Nigel Mansell and Ferrari $50,000 for allegedly breaking the rules during their race at Estoril on 24 September , said yesterday that their case concerned only the motor racing authorities and was not a civil action , as previously reported . |
| 27 | In the judgment in Ex parte Jaderow Ltd. the court ruled , inter alia , that a member state might lay down conditions designed to ensure that the vessel had a real economic link with that state if that link concerned only the relations between that vessel 's fishing operations and the populations dependent on fisheries and related industries . |
| 28 | Constance wanted to return to the status quo before the illegitimate grandson of Roger II , Tancred , count of Lecce , became king in 1190 ( i.e. to the state under King William I and King William II , 1154 to 1189 ) , but her offers concerned only the continental kingdom not the island . |
| 29 | He named Mark Flatts in his squad at Sheffield United only a week after giving 18-year-old Ian Selley his debut . |
| 30 | Carbon fibre technology has taken pole vaulting to heights unimaginable only a few years ago . |