Example sentences of "[det] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The logical conclusion of all this is that there can no longer be a justification for the massive nuclear arsenals held by both sides , that only the absolute minimum of nuclear defence is required and that , because President Yeltsin , too , now has his finger on the nuclear button , we should now be doing business with him on this issue as on so many others . |
| 32 | The there 's a widespread idea that if you let people have guns the result will be more crimes of violence and more murders , and therefore , people conclude , er at least they do in this country , that only the state should have a monopoly of firearms , so only the police and the army should be allowed to have firearms . |
| 33 | But the point is what we 're being told is effectively that only the rich can have second marriages , that 's what this Child Support Act brings about . |
| 34 | Both scored highly in the first round but the French had done so well in the next round with three landing on the line , that only the RAF stood a chance of catching them . |
| 35 | This only a short account of the main points of the Convention to alert exporters to what has been , up to now , an important aspect of International Trade which tended to be overlooked . |
| 36 | In general this only a problem if you want to change leads with a weaker climber . |
| 37 | Nor is this only a question of a difference between writing and speech , as might at first appear . |
| 38 | But Middlesbrough showed that they have the skill and fighting spirit to fulfil their Premier League dream and make this only a temporary set-back . |
| 39 | I am careful to make this only the slightest of tints , then from the top down I was in a tone of cerulean fading out into the orange . |
| 40 | Society responds with oppression , which it justifies by again invoking myths , scriptures ( quoted or misquoted ) and proverbs , some ancient and some only a few years old , thrown up by the needs of everyday life . |
| 41 | They grow sticking up vertically on sandy sea floors , some only a few centimetres long , some half as tall as a man . |
| 42 | Very often , too , when we were travelling round the farms doing repairs ( and many of these were done just before harvest to prevent hold-ups at a busy time ) the Guv'nor would tell us to leave two shillings at a certain farm , half a crown perhaps at another , and at some only a shilling : that would go towards the men 's largesse-spending . ’ |
| 43 | However , one local authority should not receive double the amount of grant received by another only a few miles away for the provision of exactly the same level of service , which is the case at the moment . |
| 44 | Maybe one predator species notices only the colour , another only the shape , another only the texture , and so on . |
| 45 | Maybe one predator species notices only the colour , another only the shape , another only the texture , and so on . |
| 46 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 47 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 48 | Less than half of those who left the commune proceeded to consolidate their strips of land , and of these only a quarter actually moved their homesteads out of the village . |
| 49 | As far as companies are concerned , in 1990 there were over one million on the register in Great Britain , but of these only a little more than one per cent were public companies . |
| 50 | Of these only a few are not currently employed by one or other of the companies . |
| 51 | Of these only the last item appeared for the first time in this volume . |
| 52 | Of these only the CLC ( Cheshire Lines Extension Railway ) and LYR Derby Road sheds survived as working depots into the 20th Century , although until the 1980's , the WLR shed existed as a workshop by the Windsor Road/Hampton Road footbridge . |
| 53 | He says ‘ the demand for the all-round grocery clerk , fruiterer and vegetable dealer , dairyman , butcher , and so forth , has long ago been replaced by a labor configuration in the supermarkets which calls for truck unloaders , shelf stockers , checkout clerks , meat wrappers , and meat cutters ; of these only the last retain any semblance of skill , and none require any general knowledge of retail trade ’ . |
| 54 | Iraq is after all only a few hundred miles from the Soviet Union 's own ( Muslim-dominated ) southern border . |
| 55 | It seems reasonable that they should share the cost of what is after all only a system of humane debt collection acting on their behalves . |
| 56 | He started to smile , teasing me , and for the second time I was convinced that someone would flourish it back to existence , that it was all only a game . |
| 57 | I return again to the point that I made originally — why is it that this vulnerable , waif-like , often frighteningly naive girl who always speaks her mind — but is after all only a pop singer — is taken seriously at all ? |
| 58 | In other words , he endeavoured to introduce into Siberia something which was after all only a rudimentary concept at that time in metropolitan Russia , that is , the ‘ rule of law ’ . |
| 59 | None at all only the er er the tape recorded message that she er er left with the er police at Lincoln . |
| 60 | Above all only the eyes retain any spark of life , and they are filled with the overwhelming emotion of anguish . |