Example sentences of "only [prep] [art] [adj] [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole place looks dead and deserted , a ruin fit only for the dead and carrion birds … |
| 2 | ‘ We are miserably bantered , say they , by our senses , and amused only with the outside and show of things . ’ |
| 3 | We should act only in a professional or agency capacity in connection with negotiations ( ie not as principal ) and the client for whom we are acting should be clearly identified . |
| 4 | The firm should not normally act in the role of principal during the course of divestment negotiations , but only in a professional or agency role . |
| 5 | The firm should normally act only in a professional or agency role . |
| 6 | We should normally act only in a professional or agency capacity in connection with negotiations ( ie not as principal ) and the client for whom we are acting should be clearly identified . |
| 7 | What all of them contend is that the auditory effect of all English-language verse can only in a schematic and starveling fashion be pin-pointed by applying the only two measurements that traditional scansion recognizes : on the one hand the number of syllables , on the other the number of occurrences of ictus or ‘ stress ’ . |
| 8 | And that , I reflected on the final leg , enveloped in air-conditioned heat and six-speaker stereo sound , is why the Discovery is so uniquely suited , not only to the rough and tumble of off-road riding , but also to the equal rigours of life in Knightsbridge and Notting Hill Gate . |
| 9 | Under Theory X motivation occurs only at the physiological and security levels of Maslow 's hierarchy . |
| 10 | The silence continued , broken only by the shrieking and quarrelling of crows and parakeets . |
| 11 | The silence that followed was broken only by the buzzing and blundering of insects , the uninterrupted beating of cricket legs . |