Example sentences of "[noun] only [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies in future will be able to write off against taxes only the first $1 million of what they pay any director or executive . |
| 2 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
| 3 | Of the rest of the text only a few small fragments survive . |
| 4 | Gray , who had tucked away the penalty which set up Quakers ' promotion to the Third Division only a few weeks before , had never managed a club , and by Christmas it was becoming clear that , while a likeable character , he was not in the same class as his predecessor . |
| 5 | Although a number of companies were privatised ( some were fully transferred to the private sector , whereas in other cases only a partial stake was sold ) , the scale of the programme and the sums of money raised were relatively small when compared to privatisation during the second and third terms . |
| 6 | For one thing , if , as will be considered shortly , employment income is in some cases only a small proportion of a manager 's return from the company , then even with a significant correlation between remuneration and growth the growth motive would be cancelled out . |
| 7 | So the sharing 's a bit like doing the times only the other way round is n't it like doing it backwards . |
| 8 | Menem , who had accepted Yoma 's resignation only a few days before , had been forced to suspend her from her post in March when a report by a Spanish investigative judge , hearing evidence in the Spanish capital , Madrid , accused her of being part of an international drug laundering ring . |
| 9 | It is not snowing , but there is enough wind to be chilling and the day is grey and misty , so I get little sense of where the camp is , with visibility only a few tens of metres . |
| 10 | In the Bundesrat only the SPD-led governments of Lower Saxony and Saarland voted against . |
| 11 | At the time of argument before the Board only an abbreviated account of the judgment , reported in The Times , 16 April 1992 , was available for consideration . |
| 12 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
| 13 | Since the Bölkow is designed to go places — Nigel had returned from Cannes only a few days before my flight — this is a most useful addition allowing the relaxed study of maps , approach plates etc , without the constant monitoring of the aeroplane . |
| 14 | Normal was what people said some of their actions and relations were , from time to time , and in Marcus 's experience what they said they were bore only a vague relation to their actual forms and configurations . |
| 15 | The whole of East-West trade is at present only a small piece of a small slice of a rather small cake . |
| 16 | Since there is at present only a small pool of people with experience in this area the use of practitioners as trainers provides an element of ‘ training the trainers ’ in the course team . |
| 17 | Hudson and Denner present only a successful and respected gentleman whose accomplishments might only be guessed at . |
| 18 | " Potentates , diplomatists and militarists made this war " , claimed the most important and vocal British radical group of this kind only a few weeks after the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 19 | The importance of the amendment by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act was that it added the words from serious harm from him' to the end of the sentence only a custodial sentence would be adequate to protect the public' . |
| 20 | As a result , they receive for their milk only a fifth of the price paid to European farmers , a third of the price paid to American farmers , and one-seventh of that paid in Japan . |
| 21 | All these stars are concentrated in a field only a little over a degree in diameter . |
| 22 | In the bees and the higher Diptera only the indirect muscles of the mesothorax generate the power needed for flight ; the metathoracic indirect muscles are capable only of tonic contraction and act so as to control the amount of power transmitted from the mesothorax to the metathorax . |
| 23 | The English columns kept arriving , but of course only a small proportion of the great host could move up to occupy that terrace position . |
| 24 | He enclosed a cover note , explaining in his clerkly style that it was of course only a rough estimate , and that I was n't beholden to reimburse him penny for penny . |
| 25 | By contrast only a few reptiles , like tortoises and iguanas , are herbivores . |
| 26 | Meanwhile in the supermarket car park only a few hundred yards from the scene of the rape , women expressed their shock at what had happened : |
| 27 | ‘ Took the grandchildren to the safari park only the other ’ |
| 28 | After the sack only the six principal churches were rebuilt . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , they caused concern among employees , especially in sections of the new set-up that had been hard hit in the recession only a few years before . |
| 30 | However , in this case only the first reference to any descriptor appears in an index , while all further linkages are made from record to record ( rather as in a chain of synonyms in a direct file ) . |