Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] only [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Optimistic courtiers suggest that only the marriage of the Queen 's youngest son , Prince Edward , to a suitable bride could redeem the popularity of the Monarchy . |
| 2 | From January 1983 , married women will have the right to apply for Family Income Supplement ( a means-tested supplement for low wage-earners with children which currently specifies that only the husband in a married couple may apply ) and , provided the couple agree that she has been and is the main breadwinner , a married woman may then apply for means-tested supplementary benefit . |
| 3 | Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money . |
| 4 | These numbers are also relevant for attempts to solve Fermat 's Conjecture ( se Section 3.5 ) and indeed the FC would be solved if only the uniqueness of factorisation theorem valid for numbers of the form a + pb and a + ib extended to them . |
| 5 | The basis was no longer to be the palace scaled down , but the cottage extended : ‘ In this view of a villa , the dwelling is to be considered as only an amplification of the cottage . ’ |
| 6 | And bosses revealed that only a deal with Taiwan had prevented the number of job losses being DOUBLED.The shock move means BAe 's factory in Hatfield will shut by the end of next year . |
| 7 | Newman and his original associates ( all white and mostly women ) were hard-liners who argued that only a revolution of the working class could resolve the individual psychic crisis . |
| 8 | Some of them took great satisfaction in provocative statements of their position : there is no such thing as law , they said , or law is only the prediction of what the courts will do or only a matter of what the judge ate for breakfast . |
| 9 | Hong Kong says that only a handful of them should qualify as true refugees fleeing persecution , while the rest are ‘ economic migrants ’ escaping the pitiful poverty of their home country . |
| 10 | In a courtly song Bertrand says that only the beauty of the Duchess Matilda prevented him from dying of boredom ; her naked body would make night seem like day . |
| 11 | In such cases , tests show that only the ear on the side of the blue eye is deaf . |
| 12 | It is worth remembering that only the format of the evening meal will change dramatically . |
| 13 | Participating and enjoying disability arts could then be seen as only a side-show in the drama of struggle for change , something to provide relief from the tensions of boring or stressful committee meetings . |
| 14 | The FDA 's audacious new tactics gained massive media coverage and are widely seen as only the beginning of a serious assault on products whose labelling is thought to violate federal law . |
| 15 | When she too heard the clatter of the galloping horse far below she went to the window , but there was no longer anything to see and only the sound of the nursemaids chattering . |
| 16 | Across from the Peninsula , but in a different price world , is the YMCA , splendidly situated and only a block from the Star Ferry Terminal . |
| 17 | In Somerset a jury declared that only a corner of north-west Somerset ought to remain within Exmoor Forest : another Somerset jury made the startling statement that King John had afforested all England ! |
| 18 | We were then told that only a handful of high-spending authorities would be capped . |
| 19 | GAS FOOD LODGING Allison Anders 's first film is a story about women — the men have gone AWOL , or hover in the background like so many endearing pets — and also a Winderesque pan of an America where the Dream has died and only the vastness of the desert and smallmindedness of its inhabitants survive . |
| 20 | It is obviously rather dangerous to talk too generally , and the above brief survey must be interpreted as only a guide to the average performance of deaf children . |
| 21 | When we question the actual extent of lifetime employment it is not surprising to find that a fluid labour market requires that only a quarter of employees can expect such guarantees . |
| 22 | Mortality data indicate that only a minority of such deaths occur in ‘ the executive male ’ . |
| 23 | Although the finding of a colorectal stricture in ulcerative colitis very appropriately raised concerns of cancer , all studies including our own indicate that only a minority of these strictures are in fact malignant . |
| 24 | We might even decide that only the universe as a whole has value . |
| 25 | Then the helicopter began to descend and only the rear of the house was in view . |
| 26 | It is well known that only a minority of alcoholics are afflicted with clinical pancreatitis and the issue of individual susceptibility to alcoholic pancreatitis has recently been reviewed . |
| 27 | It was less crowded at the rear of the room and he thought of pausing there , where he could watch la Principessa and still draw a breath of air that was not perfumed half to death , but then he patted the slender cigar in the breast pocket of the dinner-jacket that had been hand-tailored to fit his sinew-hardened body and decided that only a whiff of tobacco would fully cleanse his nostrils of the mix of scents that hung in the over-heated room . |
| 28 | ( The cocktail stick is used to ensure that only the amount of colour needed is applied — it is easy to overdo it . |
| 29 | Note that only the ordering of the numbers is significant , not their actual magnitudes . |
| 30 | Of course , to use such an argument to support vitalism would be specious : it is a nonsense to believe that only the presence of a ‘ vital principle ’ can confer life . |