Example sentences of "[verb] only the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The leaked document showed only the most commonsense action by the NHS management executive to monitor those hospitals where there are problems . |
| 32 | Indeed on being presented with a picture , pupils may look at it for only a very short time and give only the most cursory replies when questioned about various features . |
| 33 | Consider only the very diverse practices it offers to unite or even , in some versions , to make in some sense identical . |
| 34 | From concept through to completion , Transplastix employs only the most skilled of techniques and technicians . |
| 35 | They had raised only the most discreet eyebrow at the bedraggled urchins who queued to deposit the takings from the magazine and mail-order ; at the implausible schemes for manor-house recording studios and sundry businesses of a bizarreness beyond the bank 's mannered comprehension . |
| 36 | I wanted to use only the most solid timber on the sides to keep things watertight . |
| 37 | Gaminara draws only the most banal conclusions from his detailed subject matter and , by the end , the play ( his first for the stage ) has become contrived , sentimental and gratuitously violent . |
| 38 | By the middle of the nineteenth century developments in medicine offered a new challenge to the parish ‘ guardian ’ , who had previously provided only the most rudimentary care to the sick . |
| 39 | Deaf people even after they began to be educated , were thought only to deal with concrete information , to understand only the here-and-now . |
| 40 | As for the huge variability in the number of contradictory results , Moore says that NCI applies only the most stringent criteria to their decisions : a significant turnout response to a given dose in two species or two sexes . |
| 41 | But , more important , the participating schools should not take only the very clever . |
| 42 | The growing nationalism of his schemes needed only the more autarchic economic plan and the authoritarian nature of political control to turn it into fully-fledged fascism . |
| 43 | ‘ I brought only the most attractive brochures , ’ Adam said . |
| 44 | But most musicassettes still use only the very cheapest ferric oxide tape , so quality is poor and musicassettes are not popular with hi-fi buffs . |
| 45 | It is very different from our usual trip programme — there is so much to do and see , and we 've been selective in choosing only the very best . |
| 46 | To mention only the most general one , the non-causal connections asserted within science are of many diverse kinds , and they are usually in one way or another partial . |
| 47 | Sociologists , economists , political scientists , historians , geogra ’ phers , anthropologists and everyone else whose work demanded a global perspective had long been accustomed to perceive the world as split into modern and traditional , advanced and backward , progressive and stagnant societies , to mention only the most commonly used distinctions . |
| 48 | Historians will be occupied for a long time to come in determining the exact balance and interaction of forces — including , to mention only the more obvious , the economic disaster of the Second World War , the rise of America , and the development of nationalism — which contributed to Britain 's imperial demise . |
| 49 | But it seems fair to add that the Green Party pledges to allow only the most needed road schemes and switch money to public transport . |
| 50 | Eloquent testimony of this is to be found in John Gay 's magnificent photographs of London terminals , depicting , for instance , the forest of columns , arches , and metallic tracery supporting the roof of Liverpool Street Station and the perfect form and line of Brunel 's ‘ all interior , all roofed-in ’ Paddington , achievements that could leave only the most die-hard curmudgeon unmoved . |
| 51 | He heaved his bulk round , but saw only the tightly wedged backs of the mob out in the street . |
| 52 | After studying the report , which reiterated the multitude of reservations expressed over the last few months and went on to accuse architect Dominique Perrault of having sacrificed functionalism for the sake of aesthetics , President Mitterrand accepted Perrault 's design , making only the most cosmetic of changes to appease the powerful lobby against the building . |
| 53 | Naturally , such visits can allow only the most superficial understanding of prison life , any conversations with prisoners and warders being cursory and inhibited by the presence of a senior officer . |
| 54 | In all other respects , however , our group seem to present a typical spread , excluding only the very small minority too seriously ill to be interviewed . |
| 55 | This film , made in courage by bereaved parents , strengthened the resolve of those present to continue to offer only the best to those whom they serve . |
| 56 | In fact , this would pay to rebuild only the most modest house , and the table below gives examples of what it would cost to rebuild different types of houses in different parts of the country . |
| 57 | He would have been lying if he had recorded only the more accessible drama of the painter 's electric quarrels with Gauguin in the Yellow House in Arles , the distant necessary brother who supplied paint and love , the severed ear delivered to the whore in the brothel , the asylum fears . |
| 58 | Said only the once , but in memory so deep I could analyse each syllable . |
| 59 | But sometimes the problem lies in our assuming that religious concepts have the same meaning for different people , when in fact there are grossly different understandings , even within Christianity , of who or what is meant by God — to take only the most basic example . |
| 60 | The king was fortunate : he had plenty from whom to choose , and he could afford to take only the best into his service . |