Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] only [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This remained only a vague idea until he read the same Soviet paper from the 1970s as Chatterjee had seen and which dealt with the abundance of helium-3 and helium-4 in minerals . |
| 2 | THE 101st anniversary of the birth of Ho Chi Minh on May 19th got only a muted celebration in Hanoi . |
| 3 | If Labour offered only a feeble challenge , the Alliance was scarcely more than a rabble . |
| 4 | In October 1974 Labour won only a small majority of seats but that majority had disappeared by 1976 , because a number of minor nationalist parties were able to maximize their effect on the electoral system by virtue of their votes being concentrated into a limited number of constituencies , and because by-elections were lost . |
| 5 | That left only a tiny cupboard above the hanging space , in which Julius Apollo had stored a black leather toilet bag and his brushes . |