Example sentences of "[coord] only the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We asked Ruby whether the same was true for Australopithecus tanzaniensis , whether they actually had speech or only the capacity to be taught speech . |
| 2 | The easiest way to get a component " accepted " is to declare that it has no , or only the simplest , association with the rest of the machine . |
| 3 | Oh , I do n't take the older boys , or only the dimmer ones in the lower streams . |
| 4 | The St Petersburg mayor , Anatoly Sobchak , made an individual request for food aid from the EC on Sept. 16 , and Ivan Silayev , chair of the Interim Economic Council , had asked for between ECU5,000 million and 6,000 million in aid from the EC on Sept. 9 , although it was unclear whether this was on behalf of all the republics or only the Russian Federation . |
| 5 | That 's the , that 's the key point that and were making , that only you or only the dreamer can interpret their own dreams . |
| 6 | To signifies this relation of subsequence in virtue of its potential meaning of a movement from one point in time to another and has been seen to give rise to two clearly identifiable actual meanings according to whether the speaker conceives the whole movement which to is capable of signifying or only the initial part thereof . |
| 7 | That group is nor only the group which has supported the US-led intervention against Iraq , it is also the group which effectively controls Gulf oil production and Opec . |
| 8 | Unless you already have a non-return valve fitted ( and only the very newest installations will have this built-in ) a double-check and drain valve is needed to comply with the law . |
| 9 | The transformer simply plugs into a mains socket indoors or in a garage , and only the low-voltage wire is taken outside . |
| 10 | Millwall were unbeaten at home and only the Canaries ' ability to metamorphose into a giant yellow sponge kept Teddy Sheringham and Tony Cascarino soaked in sweat and starved of success . |
| 11 | The mulch went on this year in March ( together with the Growmore , as ever ) , and only the keenest weeds have managed to struggle through . |
| 12 | That did not mean much , since Kursk was itself a drowsy centre with almost no factories and only the main railway line from Moscow to enliven it . |
| 13 | By 1970 , with the passing of the old empire , these were all over , and only the totally unexpected war with Argentina over the Falklands in 1982 interrupted what was one of the longest periods of unbroken peace that Britain had known since the later middle ages . |
| 14 | The British music business is extremely competitive and only the bands who are prepared to commit themselves totally to their careers will succeed . |
| 15 | Today , the specialist pop and rock rags no longer have the subject to themselves and only the most conservative publications on the news-stands fail to acknowledge that some subsection of the now sprawling rock field is of interest to their readers . |
| 16 | County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter . |
| 17 | Today , thankfully , the acrimony is forgotten and only the coffee is bitter . |
| 18 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
| 19 | In principle , it seems unjust that a homicide conviction should not be possible in such a case , if all the other elements can be established and only the ‘ year and a day ’ rule stands in the way . |
| 20 | The mandatory penalty does indeed serve to mark out murder from other crimes , but whether the definition of murder is sufficiently refined to capture the worst killings , and only the worst killings , remains to be discussed below . |
| 21 | I saw a school essay containing the word ‘ yrnetn ’ for wire netting ; and only the other day the Independent Magazine carried an advertisement for Philips Dictation Systems with the interesting sentence : ‘ In the time it took Dickens to write A Tale of Two Cities he could of told us a dozen more . ’ |
| 22 | It is only the fifth time in the post-war history of the tournament that this has happened , and only the third time there has been a First Division v Second Division clash in each semi-final . |
| 23 | Beck 's first tournament win since 1990 — and only the fourth of his career — was achieved in the hardest of circumstances . |
| 24 | Four Yugoslav republics originally applied for EC recognition and only the comparatively peaceful Macedonia is still unrecognised , because of Greek objections . |
| 25 | Then Furlong was just wide with a shot-on-the-turn from 12 yards and Coventry 's supporters were justified in expecting their first win in five games — and only the third of Don Howe 's reign . |
| 26 | However , it has also been suggested that since there is a dominance hierarchy among the females and only the subordinates do badly , it may be that it is only younger females that fare worse in big harems than they would if they were monogamous . |
| 27 | The church was demolished towards the end of the last century when the new road was laid down , and only the rescued façade was wholly retained . |
| 28 | The fatal disease was unromantic ( measles ) , but it almost carried off Louis-Napoleon also , and only the courage and devotion of Hortense prevented her losing both sons . |
| 29 | The effect is such you would think a giant mountain range had been flooded and only the peaks are left showing above the waterline . |
| 30 | There had been violent clashes between police and nationalist demonstrators in the mid-1950s in Derry city centre and only the previous June the Connolly commemoration had been banned . |