Example sentences of "only [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three years ago they went through a ‘ cultural revolution ’ like Mao 's in China : Personnel apparatchiks were sent out into the field to become generalists , with only dotted lines back to their personnel masters . |
| 2 | Art historians and archaeologists explain that only persistent contact between civilisations is likely to produce far-reaching changes of direction . |
| 3 | They say it 's only right compensation should be paid . |
| 4 | Sputum culture yielded only normal flora , two blood cultures were negative , and the serological evaluation was unremarkable . |
| 5 | The only protection against this potential threat of competition is afforded by firms charging prices equal to marginal costs and earning only normal profit . |
| 6 | In order to avoid unreasonable profiteering , only normal farming rents , presently £40 and £50 per acre , would be paid to affected landlords . |
| 7 | If all preferences are strong , so that only normal mode inference is ever performed , wrong choices will be made . |
| 8 | However , both the Turin police headquarters and the anti-terrorist squad said they knew of no particular cause for alarm and that only normal security measures had been taken . |
| 9 | Regular checks by it 's own monitoring team show only normal background radiation levels . |
| 10 | This assumes that firms always set price equal to average costs because they are constrained by the level of competition to making only normal profits . |
| 11 | We have seen not only regional variations in voting patterns but distinctly local variations within the regions . |
| 12 | In an extensive review arising from IGCP 61 Kidson ( 1982 ) has concluded that the search for a universal eustatic curve should be regarded as over ; that regional differences in changes in the geoid mean that eustatic sea level curves can have only regional validity ; and that no part of the earth 's crust can be regarded as wholly stable . |
| 13 | Not a word as he put his foot back in the stirrup iron ( only stable boys and jockeys jump up from the ground ) a hand across the saddle-tree , and he was up , quick and certain as a fly landing . |
| 14 | The hotel 's restaurant provided only poor-quality food and the top-name cabaret entertainment consisted of a local group of amateur singers . |
| 15 | It did not involve trade secrets , only publicly-available information and research by Cybernex 's staff . |
| 16 | ( I was a little jealous — who would not be , when reading the private journal of a man you love and finding in it no mention of yourself , but instead only lush apostrophes to verminous whores ? ) |
| 17 | Well now what , er it 's only bloody names that 's difference in bloody washing up powders |
| 18 | It 's only bloody luxury I 've got in life , smoking . |
| 19 | It looks like ‘ it ’ was reading someone elses mail , and got my post about how ABSOLUTELY PISSING CRAP Sheff Utd were , and HOW ONLY COMPLETE MORONS would ever begin to support them . |
| 20 | They were also the party of international Protestantism , believing that England should open its arms to foreign protestants who had fled their own country on account of their religion , and were prepared to allow them not only complete freedom of worship but also the advantages of naturalisation . |
| 21 | This ensures that complete tables and only complete tables are approved , or that a single oddball entry and only a single oddball entry is approved . |
| 22 | Although many potential customers may only require parts of the information system , a decision was made that only complete systems could be sold . |
| 23 | A new Remote Login Client feature enables Unix users to move all character-based processing to local systems and send only complete messages or transactions to the server for processing , reducing communications costs . |
| 24 | It is also difficult to see the consistency between his reference to sex as fine and noble and his claim that only complete renunciation of sex leads to the realization of God . |
| 25 | Their insistence on selling only complete packages made the cost of buying the guides too expensive , but at the same time individual purchasing libraries have often gone on to modify the guides for local use ; and this is the greatest block to co-ordinated and centralized production — librarians prefer to prepare their own guides , tailor-made for their particular local needs . |
| 26 | Only complete parses of the phonemic string from beginning to end of the utterance were counted . |
| 27 | This guarantee covers only advance payment sent in direct response to an advertisement in this magazine ( not , for example , payment in response to catalogues and so on , received as a result of answering such advertisements ) . |
| 28 | This guarantee covers only advance payment sent in direct response to an advertisement in this magazine ( not , for example , payment made in response to catalogues and so on , received as a result of answering such advertisements ) . |
| 29 | Me only cruel immortality Consumes : I wither slowly in thine arms . |
| 30 | Some wore only frilly drawers and black camisoles so you could see their bare thighs on which they wore fancy garters and suspenders . |