Example sentences of "only the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a sniff a hyaena can perceive not only the here and now but , simultaneously , a whole series of events stretching back into the past . |
| 2 | The Chemical Society represented academic chemists , but had not performed any of the professional ‘ trade union ’ functions of fixing fees , ensuring that only the duly qualified were allowed to do public analyses , and so on . |
| 3 | Ah well , her parents were old now , and retired , and nobody thought them funny any more : indeed , it was only the intensely conventional world of a Yorkshire boarding-school that had made them seem so eccentric in the first place . |
| 4 | Deaf people even after they began to be educated , were thought only to deal with concrete information , to understand only the here-and-now . |
| 5 | As the temperature fluctuations appear the same on all scales , the spectral index on these scales is constrained to be ( ref. 9 ) , and we shall discuss only the asymptotically scale-invariant form , originally introduced to explain galaxy clustering , and later shown to be a consequence of inflationary models . |
| 6 | For comparison with BrdU , therefore , only the strongly stained nuclei , which are assumed to be in S phase , were counted . |
| 7 | When scoring only the strongly reactive nuclei in the PCNA assay , which were assumed to represent the S phase cells , the individual proliferation indices between the two methods showed a Spearman correlation coefficient of r s =0.6 ( p=0.011 ) ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 8 | Only the rather crude , top-heavy , diagonal girder-work , supporting the new roof at the upper mezzanine level , spoils the effect — turquoise blue paint only serves to accentuate its impropriety . |
| 9 | The lack of theoretical discussion reflects the present state of our understanding : we have , on the one hand , only the rather simple philosophical approaches to indexicals ( covering just some aspects of person , time and place deixis ) , and , on the other hand , amass of complicated linguistic facts , to which some preliminary order has been brought by the work of Fillmore and Lyons in particular . |
| 10 | You know the way it is — someone dies whose example was meaningful to you , who was significant in your mind 's evolution , though you may have had only the most fleeting personal acquaintance with them . |
| 11 | Thus what I called Crime and Punishment 's apocalyptic naturalism is its most vital link with The Possessed ; I mean , when Dostoevsky read about that gang murder in the Moscow Record his mind 's eye was caught not by a bizarre and therefore very newsworthy incident but by the seed of a foul commonplace : the seed in eternity , in the deepest realism , though also in the mere mundane future , for Dostoevsky did imagine a time when only the most spectacular acts of terrorism would get headline treatment . |
| 12 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |
| 13 | Those are only the most overt changes advocated in the review papers . |
| 14 | Unlike Western governments , which have been careful to avoid giving the appearance of fomenting unrest in eastern Europe , the Norwegian Nobel committee is thought to be ready to try to advance the cause of democracy in a country which has shown only the most rudimentary signs of change . |
| 15 | Gavin Hastings , whose 22 points included two tries , and Andrew , who scored the Lions ' other points with a try and drop goal , were only the most obvious beneficiaries of this unlikely success . |
| 16 | It has to privatise an entire industry and can not run the risk of the City picking up only the most attractive pieces . |
| 17 | Today , the specialist pop and rock rags no longer have the subject to themselves and only the most conservative publications on the news-stands fail to acknowledge that some subsection of the now sprawling rock field is of interest to their readers . |
| 18 | only the most conscientious ( and , frankly , those with nothing better to do ) dutifully plough through everything that flops out of a jiffy bag and on to their desk . |
| 19 | She curled up in the position she had slept in as a child ; and realised with a sinking heart that it was not only the most comfortable way of being in bed , but it was also one that you could not adopt in company . |
| 20 | The next step , which only the most well-off men such as restaurant owners can afford , is keeping this wife in semi-purdah — in other words sentencing her to solitary confinement . |
| 21 | There is obvious merit in good insulation , using only the most efficient kitchen appliances , heating systems and such . |
| 22 | The meetings are only the most visible signs of a thaw in the relationship — previously something close to undeclared war — between the Yard and the Labour authorities since Sir Peter 's accession in 1987 . |
| 23 | And although he passionately rejected demands from radical Soviet reformers to abandon the party 's monopoly of power , at least at this moment , he insisted that only the most far-reaching changes could solve the Soviet economic crisis . |
| 24 | Many conscripts — they make up 65 per cent of the armed forces — receive only the most basic training . |
| 25 | Only the most general comments will be made here . |
| 26 | Only the most objectionable individual could manage simultaneously to antagonize all three assessors . |
| 27 | The moment Ferdinando left , with only the most cursory of farewells , to go by train and boat to Rome in advance of the main Party , the icy wind which had swept through the city most unexpectedly throughout October suddenly dropped and it was as if it were summer again . |
| 28 | Only the most cynical of historians can attempt to challenge the religious sincerity of men like Glencairn and Argyll and their associates . |
| 29 | There are only the most macabre nursery overtones to these mice waiting — naked or in striped concentration camp pyjamas — to be shot , starved , clubbed or gassed . |
| 30 | Gaminara draws only the most banal conclusions from his detailed subject matter and , by the end , the play ( his first for the stage ) has become contrived , sentimental and gratuitously violent . |