Example sentences of "[det] only [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Coral polyps are each only a few millimetres across but working together in colonies , they have produced the greatest animal constructions the world had seen before man began his labours . |
2 | Sticking up into the Gulf of Mexico like a thumb , Yucatan points towards Miami and New Orleans , each only an hour and a half from Merida by air . |
3 | After that only a matter of confidence . |
4 | This is a particular case of a general rule about Greenaway 's films : that only a person as obsessionally preoccupied with formal patterns as the director — and that is a tall order — can properly share his shock when death turns out not to be deterred by lists and games after all . |
5 | It may be that we can learn from computers something of what we have been missing in the game ; or , that chess is so rich , that only a symbiosis between man and machine can explore it adequately . |
6 | There were also some comments about homosexual authors and a few feeble attempts to refute allegations about Labour authorities — not that Labour authorities had not promoted homosexuality , but that only a few had and they had not spent millions of pounds doing it . |
7 | A face , she sighed , that only a mother could have loved . |
8 | Some woman-centred psychologists think , too , that only a woman should study female subjects , and that she should do so as much as possible , because only she can understand them . |
9 | The next Council , that of Vienne , south of Lyons , took place from October 1311 to May the following year , and was unusual in that only a selection — though a geographically fairly wide selection — of bishops were invited . |
10 | Children with special needs have long been welcomed into playgroups or mother and toddler groups but members have tended to worry on two counts — first , that only a minority of families with children with special needs were finding their way to playgroup , and second that the playgroup was not fully able to meet the children 's needs . |
11 | What a pity then , that only a meagre 11,768 people watched it . |
12 | It is difficult to imagine , as the swifts circle and the vast Edwardian lawn rollers rumble in the middle distance , while maids in pale grey and broderie anglaise move silently through a Zoffany interior , that only a short journey away lies the centre of Manhattan . |
13 | Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status . |
14 | Thus , Beed has claimed that ‘ since ownership is very widely dispersed … either it could mean , with Berle and Means , that no one individual or small group could gain sufficient votes for control , or , contradicting Berle and Means , that only a few per cent of votes was required for control ’ . |
15 | I saw then , through the one eye that would open , that my fire was scattered , that only a few wisps of smoke rose here and there . |
16 | Sir Patrick said that analysis backed up the view of Lord Colville , who conducted the review of the emergency laws , that only a small minority of cases involved allegations of police assaults inside the holding centres . |
17 | that only a fool would navigate . |
18 | The advantages in determining serum 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one concentration are that it is an even simpler method , that only a serum sample is needed , that no radioactivity needs to be used , and that it is less time consuming . |
19 | Professor Everitt has written that innkeepers were among the most mobile elements in the community , but that only a minority established dynasties that lasted for three or four generations . |
20 | It is important to note , though , that only a small number of industrially advanced countries may be able to gain economically in this manner . |
21 | But according to Israeli officials , most of the Soviets choose to live here in Tel Aviv or Haifa in Israel proper , and that only a fraction , less than one per cent , go to the occupied territories . |
22 | Each side claims to want mutual disarmament most of all , and claims , furthermore , that only the aggressiveness of the other side prevents this . |
23 | that only the final product of the primary school system is worthy of serious evaluation ; |
24 | For example , one Inner London library authority indicated that access to funds was available through the Head of Personnel and Management Services , for post-entry in-service training , but that only the total available to the Council ( £100,000/£101,200 ) was known . |
25 | It is claimed , however , that only the female of the species is fertilized . |
26 | Note , in particular , that only the group 's share of the goodwill arising on the acquisition of Harris plc is deducted in this calculation . |
27 | This is the sort of thing , so an undertaker told me , that only the Irish do in Britain these days ! |
28 | It was argued earlier that only the use of higher level knowledge will enable any additional success . |
29 | Barro focused on the other major prediction of that model : that only the unpredictable movement in aggregate demand affects real variables such as output and unemployment — his contribution is discussed in section 6.2 . |
30 | We must stick to the view that only the treaty matters . |