Example sentences of "and [adj] only [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Membership is therefore free , and dependent only upon the requirement of regular registration . |
| 2 | The earl became the largest landowner in Ireland , and second only to the Duke of Lancaster in England , while his descendants had royal blood in their veins . |
| 3 | Some of the ancient abbeys , such as St Albans and Bury St Edmunds in England , were exempt from the visitation of the local bishop and answerable only to the pope . |
| 4 | As late as the 1760s the ideal government , in the eyes not merely of George III but of the great majority of his subjects , was one consisting of a number of heads of departments , each performing his task efficiently and responsible only to the king and Parliament . |
| 5 | The biographies were terse and restrained , as far as his private life was concerned , and effusive only about the names and quality of his publications She thought that she might ring Peter de Salis , and ask him about Mrs Denham , but she did not want to do this , in case Mrs Denham was a lady of such fame that ignorance of her would prove to be positively compromising . |