Example sentences of "only [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Most of us do a full week 's work — it 's only the skivers that do n't .
2 I found the site but only the snails were visible in the sandy dunes at the edge of the golf course .
3 It 's not only the players who want a piece of the action .
4 They can , however , still be distinguished from organized political formations such as parties which are directly engaged in the struggle for power in the sense of seeking to retain or capture the government of some political unit , by the fact that social movements act in a more diffuse way and if they are successful establish only the preconditions for changes of policy or regime by bringing into question the legitimacy of the existing political system ( in part or in whole ) , creating a different climate of opinion , and proposing alternatives .
5 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 .
6 I do n't think it is only the mothers .
7 Only the blues can hold them back .
8 Only the blues can hold them back .
9 Abolishing the remission of fees , prohibiting student meetings , taking over student loan banks and closing student-run libraries alienated not only the students but also their professors .
10 By section 27(9) of the Act the ‘ qualification regulations ’ of an ‘ authorised body , ’ which the Advisory Committee has the duty to approve , mean only the regulations ( however they may be described ) as to the education and training which members of that body must receive in order to be entitled to any right of audience granted by it ; and in the same way ‘ rules of conduct , ’ which it has a duty to approve , mean only the rules ( however they may be described ) as to the conduct required of members of that body in exercising any such right of audience .
11 Only the Maronites felt able to drink from the cup of French tutelage and even they quickly found that the chalice contained a special , colonial poison , the effects of which would be passed on to future generations ; for by adding such large areas of Muslim Syria to the new ‘ Lebanon ’ , the French ensured that the Christians ' precarious status as the largest religious community would — once the Muslim birthrate increased — be lost .
12 I have now four inches of tightly packed paper — keeping mostly only the replies , to save space , as the ‘ dole office ’ nowadays frequently ask people to take in evidence of job search .
13 Of these divisions only the gastropods and cephalopods contain predators and in terms of the home aquarium we only really need to consider gastropods as octopi and squid are so seldom offered on the hobbyist market .
14 If there are , say which they are instead of pointing out only the faults .
15 For example , if a new part is made from an existing part the new part 's attribute refers to this original design and only the alterations need be stored as the new drawing file .
16 Only the figures for total references published will be in error on such occasions , whilst the figures for related references will be accurate .
17 Only the figures for total references published will be in error on such occasions , whilst the figures for related references will be accurate .
18 Outwardly , we see only the effects , the image on the screen , of this vast sea of Mind .
19 Only the effects of cold on its battery prevented her being ‘ patched ’ through direct to London on the satellite link .
20 When women have had many children , and are older , births of higher order may suffer not only the effects of the mother 's physical debilitation from excessive childbearing but , as noted above , in certain circumstances , they may also compete for sustenance unsuccessfully with older siblings .
21 Now imagine the same boundary maintained under the same forces and displacements not by the real continuum but by an arbitrary network of " finite elements ' in each of which we consider only the forces and displacements at their junctions , or " nodes ' .
22 Since no violence is involved , others do not suffer from the satyāgrahi 's mistakes , only the satyāgrahi himself .
23 Even more striking , only the bulls of the Asian species carry tusks , a fact that has spared the cows from ivory poachers .
24 The effect is such you would think a giant mountain range had been flooded and only the peaks are left showing above the waterline .
25 Despite the GLC 's lack of success with London buses and the London underground , the Labour party wants to give back to the GLC not only the buses and the underground but Network SouthEast .
26 The Vancouver style , ‘ Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals , ’ sets down only the obligations of authors .
27 No matter ; only the accents change — and the pants : here , the squares wear slacks , the good guys blue-jeans .
28 Usually , only the times of high water in G.M.T .
29 It was not only the cops but the Black Maria as well .
30 The defendant contended that he thought that he was a good enough shot to hit only the bottles .
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