Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] only [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some guides are indeed very brief , suggesting visits at breakneck speed where only a few items or rooms will be seen . |
| 2 | A light sampling approach is employed with the result that only a few students , in each of a representative sample of schools , are required to complete tests . |
| 3 | There are stories of good Germans , and the sad irony that only the good ones , ie the wrong ones , blamed themselves . |
| 4 | Some of this pollen is inevitably brushed off when a bee visits another flower , but bearing in mind that only a few grains are needed to bring about cross-fertilisation , and that a bee on a single journey may collect two million , it is clear that the price a plant pays for this transport is a very high one . |
| 5 | The result is that the Viking badge today adorns a range of cars that only a few years ago would have been impossible to imagine . |
| 6 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 7 | Carved out of the rock and only a few inches wide , they require a certain agility . |
| 8 | None is required of schools and only the barest details are maintained on the files : |
| 9 | Attempts to set up a national printers " union in Scotland date from 1836 , but both the General Typographical Association of Scotland and its successor , the Northern District Board of the National Typographical Association , came to grief after only a few years . |
| 10 | Situated directly on the promenade and only a few steps away from the boat departure point , this beautiful art-nouveau building has been lovingly restored to combine the old style will all the comforts of a modern hotel . |
| 11 | They assume that the natural world has an independent existence of its own , which is as it is regardless of those who are studying it , and which is governed by laws which can be discovered by the research scientist if only the right methods can be developed . |
| 12 | Soon all the grown-up Minpins , excepting Don Mini , had flown away on birds and only the tiny children were left . |
| 13 | This is a business where only the highest standards of manufacturing quality are acceptable . |
| 14 | What was this very special place that only a few hours ago I had cursed myself for entering ? |
| 15 | No camera lens can match the flexibility of the human eye and only a few experiments in stereoscopy attempt two-eyed ( binocular ) vision , essential to true 3-D perception . |
| 16 | Data flow diagrams prove to be a good communication tool and only the major features of systems are drawn to help clarify . |
| 17 | Most people who abuse alcohol will develop hepatic steatosis but only a few alcoholics develop more serious forms of liver disease — hepatitis , fibrosis , and cirrhosis . |
| 18 | University-trained lawyers dominated the civil service but only the highest posts gave social prestige . |
| 19 | The need for laboratory investigations should be determined by the clinical problems posed by individual patients and only a few tests need be considered as routine ( table III ) . |
| 20 | Although OSS was no more , the idea of having some form of intelligence agency to operate abroad had taken root and only a few months later Truman changed his mind . |
| 21 | The grateful customer sent Tina a box of chocolates but only a few days earlier she had vowed not to eat any chocolates because of Lent . |
| 22 | The probability that only the larger organizations will have the financial resources to ride out recessionary periods . |
| 23 | There was stillness , an immense blue sky and only the olive trees for company . |
| 24 | As Weber ( 1963 ) points out , Sweden , Holland and Denmark are small nations with limited sized labour forces and only a few industries of major importance . |
| 25 | Fraser of Neill 's claimed that only " a few men can set music and only a few men can do a table and only a few men can do anything out of the way " . " |
| 26 | He persuaded senior ministers that only the unusual conditions of a wartime coalition could permit the religious question to be solved . |
| 27 | I knew only that they happened there in the darkness and only a few feet from the pavements . |
| 28 | Cerveteri is built near the extensive necropolis which served the Etruscan city of Caere , one of their largest towns , near the sea and only a few miles from Rome . |
| 29 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 30 | If country banks were a product of the latter half of the eighteenth century , country banking functionally defined has a longer history , despite the fact that only a dozen institutions formally known as banks were in existence before 1750 . |