Example sentences of "[verb] and only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Today , thankfully , the acrimony is forgotten and only the coffee is bitter . |
| 3 | When this square building was excavated in 1925–6 , it was found to have been much reduced by stone robbing and only the south-west corner of masonry had survived . |
| 4 | Rightly , because there was no easy link to be made and only a few years previously the best criminologists were explaining the increase in crime as an inevitable consequence of prosperity . |
| 5 | When she too heard the clatter of the galloping horse far below she went to the window , but there was no longer anything to see and only the sound of the nursemaids chattering . |
| 6 | As far as he knows , only peppermints flash and only the hard , white kind . |
| 7 | Across from the Peninsula , but in a different price world , is the YMCA , splendidly situated and only a block from the Star Ferry Terminal . |
| 8 | GAS FOOD LODGING Allison Anders 's first film is a story about women — the men have gone AWOL , or hover in the background like so many endearing pets — and also a Winderesque pan of an America where the Dream has died and only the vastness of the desert and smallmindedness of its inhabitants survive . |
| 9 | Then the helicopter began to descend and only the rear of the house was in view . |
| 10 | The effect is such you would think a giant mountain range had been flooded and only the peaks are left showing above the waterline . |
| 11 | But the actual letter survives and only a mind predisposed to suspect the sender could think it pompous : ‘ After the most careful consideration I have decided , if you are willing that I should do so , to recommend your name for the succession to the see of Durham . ’ |
| 12 | The cast enter into this Lancashire hot-pot as to the manner born and only a snob will fail to enjoy : ‘ By gum ! |
| 13 | If you want to protect areas of your picture from accidental damage a window facility is provided and only the area inside can be edited while the window is active . |
| 14 | One must take account of the inefficiencies such as the fact that many muons fail to initiate fusions at all , they are produced in an accelerator that has to be kept running and only a fraction of the power input ends up in beams of muons and energy is expended in the motion of the neutrons and alpha particles produced in the fusion reactions . |
| 15 | With the problems of site and design settled and only the question of finance outstanding , there seems little reason why the scheme should not proceed as Molesworth had hoped , but as was to happen many times later , the repercussions of major political events were now radically to affect the progress of the scheme . |
| 16 | More than half of them have now perished and only a score or more will survive into the next century . |
| 17 | It was n't easy for him , all those women bickering and only a handful of people out of Dynmouth 's thousands ever setting foot in his church , and Mr Peniket sighing over the decline of church life . |
| 18 | Going back the other way , those needles which just knitted will rest and only the other ones will knit ; for example , going from right to left the first and alternate needles KNIT , going back from left to right , the second and alternate needles knit . |
| 19 | As determined by sequencing , the larger PCR product corresponds to the AD1 sequence plus the 5' and 3' flanking type III sequence while the 185 bp product represents an alternative form in which AD1 is spliced and only the flanking sequence of type III repeat 10 and 11 are present . |
| 20 | Tilting back my head , I saw shrouds and regimental colours hanging like winter leaves when the flesh is gone and only a gauze of capillaries remains , scab of red , mothwing of gold . |
| 21 | Please ! ’ she begged , all pride gone and only the shadow left , the thought of what it would be like if it swallowed her up and he should leave her wrenching the words from between her lips . |
| 22 | The true heart of Morar is in its unfrequented interior where tourists never go and only the brave venture . |
| 23 | Nothing is wasted and only the dregs are left , charred and thoroughly sifted , by the time the municipal refuse truck comes through at dawn the next day . |
| 24 | As the Psalmist does not mention the destruction of the city or the deportation of the people , the context can hardly be the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. But the description does not correspond either to what we are told in the Books of Maccabees about the defilement of the Temple in 167 B.C. , when only the priests ' chamber was destroyed and only the gates burned ( I Mac . |
| 25 | In this case , the mortgagee had been paid and only the receivers were awaiting their remuneration and costs . |
| 26 | In principle , it seems unjust that a homicide conviction should not be possible in such a case , if all the other elements can be established and only the ‘ year and a day ’ rule stands in the way . |
| 27 | Under normal conditions a male dominance hierarchy would have been previously established and only the dominant male would have had access to the receptive female . |