Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] only the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Optimistic courtiers suggest that only the marriage of the Queen 's youngest son , Prince Edward , to a suitable bride could redeem the popularity of the Monarchy . |
| 2 | Although it might be expected that only the better-educated and wealthier sections of the community would watch television , the existence of the extended family system meant that the television sets owned by prosperous Zambians were also watched by a number of relatives who were less well off . |
| 3 | It should not be forgotten that only the endowed chantries were confiscated under the Chantries Act ; the guilds still continued but more as funeral clubs than intercessionary fraternities . |
| 4 | From January 1983 , married women will have the right to apply for Family Income Supplement ( a means-tested supplement for low wage-earners with children which currently specifies that only the husband in a married couple may apply ) and , provided the couple agree that she has been and is the main breadwinner , a married woman may then apply for means-tested supplementary benefit . |
| 5 | Patterson found that only the problem child was permitted to be out of control in interaction with the parents , while all of the children were permitted to be out of control when interacting with each other . |
| 6 | There are also sparsely distributed , highly nutritious fruits , and Bell and his colleagues found that only the Thomson 's gazelle eats much of these . |
| 7 | After my research I found that only the rich countries make weapons and the poor countries simply buy the finished goods . |
| 8 | The controversies and speculations will no doubt continue for many years to come and only the briefest notes will be given here to suggest some of the possibilities , without prejudice but also with realism . |
| 9 | Today , thankfully , the acrimony is forgotten and only the coffee is bitter . |
| 10 | These numbers are also relevant for attempts to solve Fermat 's Conjecture ( se Section 3.5 ) and indeed the FC would be solved if only the uniqueness of factorisation theorem valid for numbers of the form a + pb and a + ib extended to them . |
| 11 | ‘ Similarly , if a woman has a child 's high voice and is arguing with a child , the child will always win because only the child 's voice is natural . |
| 12 | But people are much more likely — and we should stress that only the lunatic fringe is involved — to believe it necessary that those they perceive as only minimally inferior to themselves should be annihilated . |
| 13 | Some water boards insist that all cold water taps in the house are taken from the rising main ; others insist that only the kitchen tap is taken from the main and that all others are fed from the roof tank . |
| 14 | It was a party of stretcher-bearers , passing round for a final ascertaining that only the dead remained . |
| 15 | Murphy 's Law , naturally , decrees that only the important , urgent or totally trivial jobs will get into difficulties and it is here that the bureau can really play its part . |
| 16 | Practically all the land above 1,500 feet falls into this category and a great deal of it is so poorly drained that only the sourest peaty soils are found . |
| 17 | The Publisher further agrees that only the Author will be credited on the video cassette box |
| 18 | The Publisher further agrees that only the Author will be credited on the video cassette box |
| 19 | Was it a household so permeated by dislike and distrust that only the bald fact of dependence constrained them to preserve an uneasy peace ? |
| 20 | It happens that only the last of these verb phrases is standard English . |
| 21 | Selection effects may ensure that only the fittest survive to experience old age . |
| 22 | In a courtly song Bertrand says that only the beauty of the Duchess Matilda prevented him from dying of boredom ; her naked body would make night seem like day . |
| 23 | In such cases , tests show that only the ear on the side of the blue eye is deaf . |
| 24 | On the one hand it would appear that only the traditional problems are being brought in ( see above ) , on the other , the fact that 90 per cent . |
| 25 | What is more it had long been accepted that only the pope could perform this . |
| 26 | It is worth remembering that only the format of the evening meal will change dramatically . |
| 27 | It seemed that only the weather could stop another blackwash . |
| 28 | But it seemed that only the one sentence had impinged on the queen-dowager 's consciousness . |
| 29 | In the erotic landscape on which her thoughts now opened , the illusory and the actual were so intimately twinned that only the most cautious eye might distinguish between them ; and at each passionate encounter the symbolic and the literal seemed to enfold their embrace more tightly . |
| 30 | It is sometimes said that only the Exodus complaint stories and the one in Numbers 20 , which we will come to in a moment , deal with matters of life and death . |