Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] only [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , single-person households with , for example , an income consisting only of a single person 's state pension are much more likely to be found in the older age groups than in the younger ones . |
| 2 | AGAIN related to a case reported only in the Daily Mail . |
| 3 | This study looks only at the latter two groups . |
| 4 | Morgenthau 's Realist theory was , as we have said , based on six principles , outlined in an introductory chapter added only in the second edition of the book ; this fact may explain why the six principles do not deal explicitly with two of the three concepts that are central to the remainder of the book , namely ‘ national interest ’ and the ‘ balance of power ’ . |
| 5 | The simple end-product arrives only at the fifth attempt . |
| 6 | Active hegemony in effect operated only on the moderate right wing of Labour , that ‘ intellectual group most congenial to the majority of Trade Union leaders ’ ( ibid. p 181 ) . |
| 7 | For whereas a subordinate rule of a system may be valid and in that sense ‘ exist ’ even if it is generally disregarded , the rule of recognition exists only as a complex , but normally concordant , practice of the courts , officials , and private persons in identifying the law by reference to certain criteria . |
| 8 | Wring our hands and bleat that the world is ‘ interdependent ’ , ignoring the plain truth that interdependence without equity leads only to the deepening dependency of the weaker ? |
| 9 | At 8 o'clock on Friday , June 15th , over 30 teenagers met in the church Family Centre for a strange ritual known only to a few as MIDNIGHTICESKATING . |
| 10 | Curiously , the Order discriminates against Scottish and Irish lawyers : the relaxation of the general rule applies only to a defined class of EC lawyers from which those qualified in Scotland or Northern Ireland are , whether by accident or design , excluded . |
| 11 | They have obvious advantages over ordinary questionnaires and ‘ checklists ’ : with these one can in practice ask only about a limited number of activities which must be precisely specified in advance . |
| 12 | The first body-blow to this belief was dealt by Kinsey , Pomeroy and Martin , who concluded that , far from a high-point of sexual feeling and tension existing only in the earlier adult years and continuing only to around the mid-fifties , sexuality and sexual activity decline after youth only in the most gradual way , with no set or probable point of cessation . |
| 13 | It is notable that the term legatarius occurs only in the qualifying clauses , and need not therefore be attributed to Celsus in this context . |
| 14 | The first was for Exeter 's own services to be concentrated on Digby and Wonford House Hospitals , with Exminster to provide only for the other Devon districts . |
| 15 | Tamo ash is apparently a very rare , highly figured wood found only in a small region of Japan . |
| 16 | have also interpreted an increased reactivity at position -46 to singlet oxygen occurring only in a ternary active complex , as an increase in bending allowing better contacts between the two proteins [ 32 ] . |
| 17 | In most fields , the criminal law deals only with the outer limits of the permissible . |
| 18 | As the transfer deals only with the legal estate , it can be argued that there should properly be a release off the register by the husband of his equitable interest in the matrimonial home to the wife . |
| 19 | This argument seems , however , to have been soon dropped , and in the 1484 act survives only in the oblique remark that Richard , unlike his brothers , had been born in England . |
| 20 | This argument seems , however , to have been soon dropped , and in the 1484 act survives only in the oblique remark that Richard , unlike his brothers , had been born in England . |
| 21 | World peace kept only by the inbuilt survival instinct . |
| 22 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 23 | The difference lies only in the cultural pattern with which the children associates . |
| 24 | Relaxation came only with the two Geneva conferences of 1954 and 1955 . |
| 25 | The causes of the problem of soil erosion lie only in the actual place in which the physical symptoms are felt . |
| 26 | The community exists only in the mutual relation of the individual landowners as such . ’ |
| 27 | Such substantial additions to the diet happen only among the largest specimens , such as Nepenthics rajah of tropical Borneo , whose pitcher could encompass a rugby ball . |
| 28 | I went to the conference armed only with a general feeling of being pissed off that men seemed to have it all their own way . |
| 29 | They passed through a room furnished only by a great oak table and two benches . |
| 30 | The gentleman nodded briefly , and , as the landlord left , stepped into the dimness of a dark room lit only by a single candle on the mantel above the hearth , and the glowing embers of a dying fire below . |