Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [subord] only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there is no offence against this regulation if only the tail pipe ( i.e. the piece leading the gases into the atmosphere from the end of the silencer which is the furthest from the engine ) is defective , as the gases will have passed through the silencer . |
| 2 | I prefer patterns that do n't produce large areas where only the cotton thread has knitted , so I tend to choose patterns that only have one or two punched holes ( or marked squares on electronic patterns ) counting horizontally . |
| 3 | They were still at that stage of their coital symphony where only the brass section was engaged , as the old metal bed creaked to and fro . |
| 4 | For the PC and related MS-DOS hardware Aldus may add a further 100,000 units during the coming year , with its PC version , nice business if only the dealer can get a share . |
| 5 | The LNA saw the new measures as only a beginning . |
| 6 | If people understood formal legislation as only a matter of negotiated solutions to discrete problems , with no underlying commitment to any more fundamental public conception of justice , they would draw a sharp distinction between two kinds of encounters with fellow citizens : those that fall within and those that fall outside the scope of some past political decision . |