Example sentences of "only come [prep] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opals were totally unknown to the early civilizations of the Old World and only came to the knowledge of the Mediterranean peoples as an outcome of Roman military expansion into the Balkans . |
| 2 | The Official Solicitor answered the call of the court within minutes and , although this application only came to the notice of the court officials at 1.30 p.m. it has come on for hearing just before 2 p.m. and now at 2.18 p.m . |
| 3 | ‘ I only came for a glass of water . |
| 4 | The connection with sectarianism was made gradually and only came after a succession of similar events . |
| 5 | The battle for respectability led to better cinemas but it was always conceded that real victory would only come through the production of better films . |
| 6 | Visual information does not only come in the form of specific letter identification . |
| 7 | Such lèse-majesté could only come from a member of the public . |
| 8 | Such a deeply mistaken belief can only come from a citizen of a country with a disciplinarian attitude to politics . |
| 9 | It gets its name from the belief that such a flower could only come from the home of a god — Mt Parnassus . |
| 10 | There was practically none of the systematic planning and oversight which so characterised Bath and many other spas : that could only come from the implementation of a single plan by a great landowner and architect , and Brighton had a few of these . |