Example sentences of "[noun prp] only the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do Souza Silva reached Marrakesh only the day before after a 7000K flight from Rio , but he did n't seem jet-lagged . |
| 2 | One of the first to go ashore at St Pierre after the disaster was the Vicar-General of Martinique , Monsieur Parel , who was at Fort-de-France on the morning of the eighth , having left St Pierre only the afternoon before . |
| 3 | In Scotland only the Lecht is skiable ( two runs ) . |
| 4 | Nuremberg only the previous day after two nights ' travel . |
| 5 | They could have been the same young Russians we had met 4,000 miles away in Fairbanks only the day before . |
| 6 | It was the tiny jade sculpture of Kuan Yin that DeVore had given Gesell only the week before . |
| 7 | Nizan sided unequivocally with Stalin , noting : " In the USSR only the myths of freedom are dying out , but true freedom has come into being . " |
| 8 | As things turned out , the seventeenth century saw a total collapse which left both Newbury and Reading only the remnants of their former trade . |
| 9 | I 'd never have come back to Liverpool only the firm sent me here to fix something up on the docks twelve months before this lot started , so I was just unlucky . ’ |
| 10 | It is high summer , although in the UK only the temperature of the rain would confirm summer rather than autumn to the blindfolded visitor . |
| 11 | This proposed draft broadens considerably the scope of what are the Article 3(5) areas of the LFA — in the UK only the Isles of Scilly have been so designated . |
| 12 | ‘ I gave twenty quid to Oxfam only the other day , ’ said Emma . |
| 13 | Alcalá Galiano , as an old man , remembered the terror of the middle-class citizens as the ragged ‘ patriots ’ of the Valencian army , their hats covered with relics , marched into Madrid ; in Cadiz only the Capuchins could disarm the rioters who , after murdering the Governor , had seized the Arsenal . |
| 14 | Operated via London , Heathrow and Bangkok , Thailand , it makes Manchester only the second city in Europe to have a daily direct service to Australia . |
| 15 | Historians might say that in the twentieth century in Britain only the reforming administrations of 1906 and 1945 provided a major change in direction to be followed by administrations which consolidated the changes . |
| 16 | If Target pays Newco only the economic value of the group relief , £33 , then the remaining interest of £67 must be funded by payments of dividends from Target to Newco . |
| 17 | Note that if the user has not yet assessed the DC only the MODULES field in this structure will contain valid information . |
| 18 | The birds had a new and shiny look ; in India only the animals and the people looked starved , ragged , and exhausted . |