Example sentences of "only of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a fine opportunity for a sustained piece of writing , calling on a range of historical and artistic data , and including the art critical views not only of the author , but also criticism written at other periods . |
| 2 | The critic may be willing to share an experience with the reader , sometimes only of the circumstances in which a work was seen , as might be included in a personality article ; but on other occasions the critic may give a fuller account of a personal response to a work of art . |
| 3 | They are indicative not only of the strength of current Roman catholic social rules and sense of obedience on specified issues at the level of popular religion , but also of the direct power of the hierarchy operating through the state in affairs they considered sacred . |
| 4 | ‘ It is , ma foi , a matter only of the little grey cells , m'sieur ’ , he was saying . |
| 5 | Many karateka get this wrong and make use only of the arm action . |
| 6 | His delicious Pas des Légumes performed at a special performance to mark the market 's passing brought to mind the long history not only of the ‘ fruit and veg ’ , but also of Harlequin , Columbine and their colleagues of the commedia dell'arte , inhabitants for many years of the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , and the King 's Theatre , Drury Lane , where the first ballets d'action were staged . |
| 7 | IN 1905 , when the Automobile Association was founded , ownership and use of a car was the privilege only of the rich . |
| 8 | In a vote of confidence on 28 March about the government 's handling of the industrial crisis , the Liberals , the Scottish Nationalists , and most of the Ulster MPs voted with the Conservatives , while the government enlisted the support only of the 3 Welsh Nationalists , 2 Scottish Labour , and 2 Ulstermen . |
| 9 | This is an invaluable new reference book , listing the serial numbers , by squadron , not only of the fighters and bombers of 1940 , but of such lesser favourites as the Lerwick and Botha , for example . |
| 10 | That given , the Burkian thesis must work itself out inexorably to the separation and independence not only of the great colonies ( in the original sense of that word ) but of every island and speck of rock on the globe : where there could not be representation in a common sovereign assembly , ‘ unity ’ would only be de facto and on sufference , and thus diminishing with the passage of time — organic it could never be . |
| 11 | Thereby , in the eyes not only of the United Kingdom but of the world , each of these territories became a sovereign independent state , alias a nation . |
| 12 | This fear of the same , or of the proximity of the same , or of the threat of the same , structures the violence not only of the homosocial , but of sexual difference itself . |
| 13 | He enhances our sense not only of the poets ' universe — me cosmology of Dante and Milton , for example — but also of the symbolism used by painters and architects . |
| 14 | But God ‘ misreads ’ what is going on ( how is that for audacious storytelling ! ) and is conscious only of the threat to his domain . |
| 15 | While Isaac is still unborn , the promises speak only of the future . |
| 16 | When eventually he meets Esau , there will be no mention of them , only of the women and children , and the servant girls . |
| 17 | But the facts strongly suggest that the current of liberation really began to flow in 1953 , the year not only of the Kinsey Report but of two significant debuts : those of James Bond and Playboy . |
| 18 | Karajan had pitched camp with Legge and the Philharmonia in 1949 when a generous grant from the Maharaja of Mysore had stabilized the orchestra 's finances and opened up the possibility , in collaboration with EMI , of extensive recording , not only of the classic repertory but of works that caught Karajan 's and Legge 's fancy : Balakirev 's First Symphony , Roussel 's Fourth Symphony , the still formidably difficult Music for Strings , Percussion , and Celesta by Bartók , and some English music , too . |
| 19 | To the south lay a country whose king was trying to establish an English Catholic church , in the teeth not only of the papists but also of those who were much more convinced Protestants . |
| 20 | It left him with a two-over par total of 290 , ahead only of the equally out-of-form Jose-Maria Olazabal ( 292 ) of the five Europeans who had survived the 36-hole cut . |
| 21 | For we have long since ceased to regard the raising of houses in such an offhand fashion , even when they are to the glory only of the home-owning democracy . |
| 22 | Within crofting , and this is important , I am speaking only of the small part-time crofts , on poor land , found in Lewis and Harris and along parts of the western mainland coast . |
| 23 | Leslie 's letters to me ( perhaps on purpose ) told only of the prankish , rollicking aspects of his experiences . |
| 24 | He was no longer aware of the other people present , only of the lanky figure in the front row . |
| 25 | Like most of Europe 's Social Democrats at that time , the party saw nationalism as a declining issue , characteristic only of the economically more backward areas . |
| 26 | No doubt the evocation of a specific and well-known moment of the twentieth — century past corresponds to the needs , not only of the author — whose reactionary views are amply documented in his frequent interviews — but also to a public that does not necessarily share those views , but appears to be fascinated by the spectacle of a culture in decline or at its end . |
| 27 | I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines ; I have obtained cigarettes , toffee , scent , and other things that I dislike by the same machinery ; I have weighed myself with sublime results ; and this sense not only of the healthiness of popular things , but of their essential antiquity and permanence is still in possession of my mind . |
| 28 | At the inquiry SAVE faced the opposition not only of the Department of Transport , but also of the county council . |
| 29 | With country house gardens , it is important to remember that the grounds consist not only of the lawns and terraces immediately round the house , but also large walled gardens and extensive woodland walks and shrubberies . |
| 30 | In the United States work is being done on a vaccine which consists only of the outer covering of the virus particle and so avoids the dangers of using the virus 's nucleic acid core . |