Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [subord] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Michael Moore of Glasgow University showed that mothers who drank water with a high lead level were twice as likely to have mentally retarded babies ; 61 per cent of mothers involved in stillbirths or whose foetuses were abnormal had placental lead levels over 1.5 ppm whereas only 7 per cent of those with normal babies had such high lead levels . |
| 2 | Some guides are indeed very brief , suggesting visits at breakneck speed where only a few items or rooms will be seen . |
| 3 | Peter , as you know , I 've taught this course , tutored some of the students in it , and I find it myself a very challenging and interesting course if only because the students are always unearthing new facts and figures about energy which catch me by surprise . |
| 4 | It is too late for British Telecom to return to its old ways if only because the public now knows that it does not have to put up with a telephone system built for the 1950s . |
| 5 | Visit the small community of ‘ de Zaanse Schans ’ just north of Amsterdam where there once were 700 windmills though only 5 remain . |
| 6 | He considers that it is not necessary to consider the development of combustion technology in this scale because only relatively small quantities of fuel are used on comparison with the number of passenger journeys . |
| 7 | There are many walkers , both locals and visitors who would like to use this road if only it were safe to do so . |
| 8 | It is , as far as he knows , the only way of coming downstairs , but sometimes he feels that there is really another way if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it . ’ |
| 9 | The list of editors makes interesting reading if only for the number of composers it contains : Saint-Säens was eventually joined by Vincent d'Indy , Paul Dukas , Auguste Chapuis , Reynaldo Hahn , Alexandre Guilmant , Henri Busser , Georges Marty and ( surprisingly ? ) |
| 10 | The distinction has to be considered at least to some extent because only by identifying what has been done in the past can one see how deficiencies remain to be corrected in the future research agenda . |
| 11 | However , there is no offence against this regulation if only the tail pipe ( i.e. the piece leading the gases into the atmosphere from the end of the silencer which is the furthest from the engine ) is defective , as the gases will have passed through the silencer . |
| 12 | The situation is more acute in the rural areas when only 32 per cent of the population aged seven to fourteen years are enrolled at school . |
| 13 | But as far as possible , the best British artists should join a global chorus if only in temporary , experimental ways . |
| 14 | An early break after only seven miles saw Australian Grant Rice and Dutchman Marc Lotz go clear and stay out front for more than 80 miles . |
| 15 | The entire floor had been booked by the Zimbalan delegation although only ten rooms were being used . |
| 16 | It describes how Archbishop Lyfing spoke to the king about the freedom of his church , and then rejected Cnut 's offer of a new charter of freedom with the complaint that he had plenty such charters if only they were good for anything . |
| 17 | Pray God that her fancy prove untrue ! — he was immured in one of those gruesome buildings where only ready money could save its unwilling patrons from abject penury . |
| 18 | A lot of modern art has tended to be that way , often abstract art , that people think is meaningless , is in fact full of very serious messages if only people are willing to listen to them . |
| 19 | In fact ‘ inadequate ’ is probably an understatement : they appeared to have been able to snap the ‘ high tensile steel ’ with consummate ease since only the broken end which clamps to the steering wheel was ever recovered . |
| 20 | Many respondents said that the information fails to highlight critical issues and a majority rated such information as only poor or average . |
| 21 | The effects of the net changes in social class have been modelled explicitly for the university sector in a number of forecasts ( Diamond and Smith , 1982 , 1984 ; Diamond , 1985 ; AUT , 1983 ; Collins , 1983 ) as well as implicitly by the DES ( 1984a , b , 1986b ) .4 These effects have been the most important single factor for which data have been available at a national level albeit only for the university sector . |
| 22 | Details of decorative paintwork were visible on his left side although only the lower portion of the work could be seen clearly . |
| 23 | This morphology does not lend itself to analysis after conventional staining since only a few of the autosomes show distinguishing features in the form of secondary constrictions ( Figure 3a ) and , of the sex chromosomes , only the Y of some strains can be recognized by virtue of occasionally visible unique features ( Figure 3a ) . |
| 24 | Even those interests that are unorganised have the " potential " to organise should the need arise , and even inactive and apathetic citizens enjoy an indirect influence if only because elected politicians have to " anticipate " their wishes in order to win elections so that they can get back into office to bargain with the more active interests . |
| 25 | I prefer patterns that do n't produce large areas where only the cotton thread has knitted , so I tend to choose patterns that only have one or two punched holes ( or marked squares on electronic patterns ) counting horizontally . |
| 26 | We knew it was not true to life but it was a good way to escape our humdrum lives if only for a few hours . |
| 27 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |
| 28 | Every one had slipped away into the mists during the past two or three years until only she , Dorothea , was left . |
| 29 | Automation of an information system provides an effective solution to these problems if only by centralising the information concerned . |
| 30 | The Japanese learned that their Far Eastern neighbours were better at making portable radios and black and white televisions and for some years now have passed over production of these items when only 10 years ago they were world leaders . |