Example sentences of "[verb] only the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she did , sparing only the most intimate details . |
| 2 | This , however , is an over-simplified view as the current phase of uplift and volcanicity represents only the most recent episode in a complex history stretching back to the Mesozoic ; moreover , the history of this vast mountain system differs greatly from one part to another . |
| 3 | There is obvious merit in good insulation , using only the most efficient kitchen appliances , heating systems and such . |
| 4 | USING ONLY THE MOST PRACTICAL OF MODERN MATERIALS . |
| 5 | Many companies , using only the most casual euphemisms , offer these services , so we spent a day on the phone talking to detective agencies listed in Yellow Pages , asking them what they had to offer . |
| 6 | Passed down to master distillers through the centuries , it is this recipe and the insistence on using only the very best natural ingredients that sets Gordon 's Gin apart . |
| 7 | The group seems to have been given only the most broad and general of aims . |
| 8 | Its sites were on variable , disturbed and fertilised soils and mainly included only the less vulnerable trees . |
| 9 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 10 | But evolution ploughed on remorselessly , enabling only the most adaptable to go on to the next stage . |
| 11 | This leaves the Commission wondering what to do with a million tonnes of prime beef — and it is prime beef , because intervention accepts only the very best steer beef . |
| 12 | In our history lecture I grasped only the most basic nature of this ‘ wunderkinder ’ warrior creed , but it was something which I was to find permeating the Legion at every level . |
| 13 | Chapman insisted , too , that his players should have decent club conditions , and the Highbury dressing-rooms were rated the best in the country at a time when most clubs were content to provide only the most spartan of facilities for changing and cleaning . |
| 14 | The committee considered the ‘ offence ’ to be compounded when an answer claimed to be pursuant to an earlier reply ‘ but has only the most tenuous link with it , ’ she said . |
| 15 | The student taking a written examination , however , very often has only the most rudimentary knowledge of the skills necessary in writing down his thoughts rapidly and accurately and in mastering the subtle techniques of being a successful examinee — techniques that have no connection at all with the amount of knowledge he may possess . |
| 16 | As a friend of mine — who has only the most ephemeral links with any religious tradition — put it recently to me : " We must learn to be channels not engines ! " |
| 17 | Despite this problem we found only the well known associations between endometriosis and age and parity . |
| 18 | As the temperature fluctuations appear the same on all scales , the spectral index on these scales is constrained to be ( ref. 9 ) , and we shall discuss only the asymptotically scale-invariant form , originally introduced to explain galaxy clustering , and later shown to be a consequence of inflationary models . |
| 19 | But with Bunny Wailer oddly quiet in the writing stakes and Tosh contributing only the previously recorded ‘ 400 Years ’ , this is Marley 's show , and on ‘ Concrete Jungle ’ , ‘ Slave Driver ’ and ‘ Stir It Up ’ , no-one could argue that this is not a fascinating record . |
| 20 | We know their average heights , but we do not know if our ancestors were hairy or smooth , blue-eyed or brown-eyed , loquacious or capable of communicating only the most fundamental of information in grunts . |
| 21 | Many conscripts — they make up 65 per cent of the armed forces — receive only the most basic training . |
| 22 | Some countries now list only the less toxic pesticides , but official recommendations have not always stopped the marketing of more hazardous products . |
| 23 | But surely , if people feel they can produce something which will stand up to repeated inspection , one should expect only the very best . |
| 24 | This generally allows only the more vocal children to put forward their views . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've spent the last seven months among people who can speak only the most rudimentary English . ’ |
| 26 | Not that an official proctor was necessarily called upon to take up the case ; often clients received only the less expensive advice of petition-drawers , who drew up as many as ninety per cent of all criminal plaints . |
| 27 | For generations Stoddard Templeton have selected only the very finest yarns from all over the world . |
| 28 | Unlike Western governments , which have been careful to avoid giving the appearance of fomenting unrest in eastern Europe , the Norwegian Nobel committee is thought to be ready to try to advance the cause of democracy in a country which has shown only the most rudimentary signs of change . |
| 29 | When scoring only the strongly reactive nuclei in the PCNA assay , which were assumed to represent the S phase cells , the individual proliferation indices between the two methods showed a Spearman correlation coefficient of r s =0.6 ( p=0.011 ) ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 30 | You know the way it is — someone dies whose example was meaningful to you , who was significant in your mind 's evolution , though you may have had only the most fleeting personal acquaintance with them . |