Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] but only [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recruit of eighteen years old was unthinkable ; he would become a puissant man but only a runt among his superhuman peers . |
| 2 | They do not question the need for such training but only the practicality of it . |
| 3 | He planned a very large church but only the baptistry was ever completed ( in 1856 ) . |
| 4 | Yeah it 's just a small volume , you 've just got one channel for , yeah currently I 'm in pretty good shape but only a year ago I had a major bypass operation . |
| 5 | In 1688 Townesend married Anne , daughter of Henry Brian , gentleman , of Witney : they had at least eight children but only a son John and a daughter survived their father , the former carrying on the business . |
| 6 | WORLD recession is blamed for the problems in our own economy but only a minority of people in the country accept that . |
| 7 | In signed Danish the words are spoken as in the upper line but only the signs in the lower line are articulated . |
| 8 | Because of the barrier against incest , the final object of the sexual instinct ‘ is never any longer the original object but only a surrogate for it … . |