Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] only [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money . |
| 2 | Newman and his original associates ( all white and mostly women ) were hard-liners who argued that only a revolution of the working class could resolve the individual psychic crisis . |
| 3 | In Somerset a jury declared that only a corner of north-west Somerset ought to remain within Exmoor Forest : another Somerset jury made the startling statement that King John had afforested all England ! |
| 4 | It was less crowded at the rear of the room and he thought of pausing there , where he could watch la Principessa and still draw a breath of air that was not perfumed half to death , but then he patted the slender cigar in the breast pocket of the dinner-jacket that had been hand-tailored to fit his sinew-hardened body and decided that only a whiff of tobacco would fully cleanse his nostrils of the mix of scents that hung in the over-heated room . |
| 5 | In Britain both Conservative and Labour cabinets insisted that only the threat of early use of nuclear weapons could stop a major Soviet offensive . |
| 6 | He said that only a couple of other booksellers in the country had been brave enough to ignore the letters . |
| 7 | Labour 's spokesman , Mr George Foulkes , said that only a programme of assistance to Vietnam would improve the lives of the people there and encourage those who have already left to return . |
| 8 | ‘ Brother , you said that only the corpses of beggars and strangers have been stolen ? ’ |
| 9 | Starting with research on small towns in the mid-1930s and moving on to larger cities in the next decade , successive community studies analysed political processes as one aspect of the social life of the locality , and concluded that only a handful of people were influential in setting major decisions ( the Lynds , 1937 ; Warner , 1943 ) . |
| 10 | No doubt Joyce felt a certain satisfaction in this small triumph over the petty snobbery of British civil servants , who considered that only the word of a professional gentleman could be relied upon . |