Example sentences of "[vb past] only [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cheese resembling Camembert was the glory of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire , where records for cheese making go back to as early as 1280 ; and production ceased only in the mid-nineteenth century with the enclosure of the common fen . |
| 2 | Having just secured world rights for her first book , she 's leading a life of food and snooze ; interrupted only by the occasional television interview . |
| 3 | Any compilation is going to be a shallow thing redeemed only by the actual songs on it . |
| 4 | Wage regulation applied only at the upper limit . |
| 5 | ( The rape and incest clauses applied only until the 13th week of gestation . ) |
| 6 | To all whom this epistle shall come , Greetings — Whereas we have been credibly informed by our well-beloved subject the right honourable Lord Clovelly , of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk , and on behalf of our well-beloved subject Christopher Everard , Gentleman , that the said Christopher Everard hath lately discovered several Islands in the Hesperidean seas towards the continent of America , the one called Saint Thomas 's , alias Everhope ( though this be error ) , or in the native tongue Liamuiga , and another , as the savages of those parts name it , Oualie ; that we are further informed that these said Islands are possessed and inhabited only by the aforementioned savages and heathen people , and are not , nor at the time of the discovery were , in the possession or under the government of any Christian Prince , state or potentate , and thereupon the said Christopher Everard , being set forth and supplied on our shores for that purpose , made entry into the said Islands for and on behalf of our dear Father in heaven , and hath since with the consent and good liking of the natives made some beginning of a plantation and colony and likewise of an hopeful trade there , and hath caused divers of our subjects of this realm to remove themselves to the said Islands with purpose to proceed in so hopeful a work : KNOW THEREFORE that the said Lord Clovelly and Christopher Everard may be encouraged and the better enabled with the more ample maintenance and authority to effect the same , We do command the said Christopher Everard to be possessed of the said Islands and all our other loving subjects under him : And of our especial great and certain knowledge have given and granted unto the said Christopher Everard during our pleasure custody of the aforesaid Islands and of every creature , man , woman and child upon them together with full power and authority for us and in our name and as our Lieutenant to govern rule and order all . |
| 7 | Four of their Lordships held that ‘ in furtherance ’ referred only to the subjective state of mind of the defendant and that he so acted if his purpose was to help the parties in the dispute to achieve their objectives and if he honestly and reasonably believed his actions would do so . |
| 8 | One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago . |
| 9 | Sometimes it was known as the Char because of its sign — a crude but unmistakable painting of that fish found only in the deepest lakes — Buttermere being one — and already considered a fashionable delicacy in London . |
| 10 | His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside . |
| 11 | Until recently , little was known about the tiny and endearing Hector 's dolphin , found only in the coastal waters of New Zealand . |
| 12 | Almost identical in size and looks to this prosimian ancestor of ours is the extraordinary tarsier , a primate just six inches tall , found only in the high jungle canopy of Indonesia and the Philippines . |
| 13 | Olimpia 's ground beetle , a green- and gold-coloured species found only in the Italian Alps , is facing extinction . |
| 14 | AGAIN related to a case reported only in the Daily Mail . |
| 15 | In principle , this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate . |
| 16 | If we are of a lazier disposition , the solution is simple and usually quite acceptable : if the same note will occur in two or more parts it can be omitted where it is least necessary and retained only in the principal part ( thus in Example 140 we would keep the E♭ only in the upper voice , to retain the melodic shape ) . |
| 17 | When she wore the collar , she ate only with the utmost difficulty . |
| 18 | SunSoft Inc has reportedly restructured its discount schedule which originally played only to the larger Sparc cloners . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | What was needed was someone outside and above the territorial nexus , requirements fulfilled only by the young king . |
| 21 | What was needed was someone outside and above the territorial nexus , requirements fulfilled only by the young king . |
| 22 | The towering cliffs , rising to a vertical 350 feet below the lighthouse and to 800 feet in places to the east , are the highest in mainland Britain and are virgin , just as they were sculptured , and explored only by the countless seabirds to which they are home . |
| 23 | Gin was , after all , commercially produced and consumed only by the lower orders . |
| 24 | Relaxation came only with the two Geneva conferences of 1954 and 1955 . |
| 25 | However , the worst outrage on Fox Hill came only after the Second World War , when horrid concrete housing was plonked on the top . |
| 26 | Silence came only in the deep watches of the night . |
| 27 | The syllables heard at the two ears differed only in the initial consonant or only in the middle vowel . |
| 28 | Below the rear central lamp , which shone into the interior , is the curved transverse tambour ; once erroneously thought to have been a sword-case , it opened only at the left hand end , outside the carriage , and its true purpose is obscure . |
| 29 | The second " have " ( = " has " ) seems odd because the realisation happened only during the Second World War and is now clearly finished . |
| 30 | This happened only for the deeper intervals and also had the effect of nearly destroying the core . |