Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rick points out that the Manson features a compound radius fingerboard , and goes on to say what an excellent idea this is and that it is a pity that only custom builders are able to implement this feature properly . |
| 2 | Tests revealed it contained formic acid , which a doctor from Newcastle University said could be lethal to a child if only teaspoonful was swallowed . |
| 3 | After a while , Niki worked his way up through the field until only Tambay and Prost were ahead of him ; then Prost had to abandon the race with a loose wheel , a stupid mechanical mistake , which put Niki on Tambay 's tail . |
| 4 | The concept of motor skill is associated , with the development of longer and more complex patterns of activity which can be reeled off following a single trigger and which are monitored on the basis that only feedback which indicates errors needs attention . |
| 5 | Other people 's gut reactions are often inaccessible ; but the notion that only birth should confer Libyan nationality , in spite of its apparent coincidence with Qaddafi 's view of nationhood , was sufficiently inconsistent with the notorious opportunism of the Zuwaya in recruiting new members , to suggest that , on this occasion , questions of politics rather than ethnicity were uppermost in their minds . |
| 6 | The secret news from Dunegal of Nithsdale , using a name that only Thorfinn would recognise , that Thorfinn did not talk of at all , at least before Groa . |
| 7 | The preoccupations of spoken language interpreters in discussing their task do not then concern language competence but only interpreter competence ( Gerver and Sinaiko , 1978 ) . |
| 8 | But Mr Fallon he said : ‘ Mr Milburn continues to think of nursery education as only council nursery schools . |
| 9 | And now they would be dancing , as we said , dancing right down , with the elegance and economy of movement that only exhaustion brings , the careful and expert moves that only come at that particular time in the morning . |
| 10 | There are n't enough biscuits ; you can have tea and coffee in the morning but only tea in the afternoon ; no-one knows where the switches are or how the equipment works ; and so on . |
| 11 | And yes , I drink alcohol but only wine and champagne and usually only in the evening . |
| 12 | Seeing the promotion of the library as only part of the general thrust of his work in " promoting the curriculum " , his accounts to the evaluators roamed broadly over the wide remit of a senior member of staff . |
| 13 | Someone once wrote , the riddle and insight of biblical faith is the awareness that only anguish can lead to life . |
| 14 | John Pearson , who appears at the Wine Garden , Alton , on Tuesday , of of the 1960s decade of British blues musicians , acknowledged to be coming of age in the 1990s — their mature talents now best equipped for the task of bringing that conviction to their music that only age and experience can provide . |
| 15 | He had an express power to delegate this function to a committee which , in turn , attempted to further sub-delegate its functions to an executive officer who issued a directive to a farmer that only sugar should be grown in a particular field . |
| 16 | The simplicity that only money could buy . |
| 17 | Thus in 1981/82 for example South Wales pits averaged a £13.2 per tonne operating loss , Scottish pits a £5.5 per tonne loss , North Eastern pits £3.8 per tonne and only North Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire pits made operating surpluses . |
| 18 | He pens his ‘ Explanation ’ in his old age in an attempt to explain to himself what went wrong in his life , and how his always acting from the highest , most unselfish motives brought him no happiness but only pain and alienation . |
| 19 | the assumption that only enquiry into literature that is founded on the state of the art in sociology or other adjacent disciplines is valid , the rest being impressionist and subjective . |
| 20 | Mother Joseph seemed utterly remote , her voice lost in the clamour of my mother 's voice , my mother 's certainty that only marriage represented sanity , security , good behaviour in a dangerous world of hostile winds and people who were ‘ not one of us ’ , talking to themselves . |
| 21 | Then suddenly the book fell open at a photo of La Paz and Illimania , and our Plan B stood before us with a strength that only fate can provide . |
| 22 | Molloy and Carroll ( 1992 ) report similar findings in their study and report that only A-level entrants with 13–15 points perform better than non-standard entrants with one A-level or one OU credit . |
| 23 | At the centre of the barn is the press , its iron worm-gears cramped down onto the cheeses , the bog horsehair bags of apple pulp that only Boy Nigel knows how to fold . |
| 24 | After a year 's break , Crawford was back at the BBC , making a final series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and a play that would show his more serious side to a large audience in the way that only television could do . |
| 25 | it hurries across the sea towards me , in the way that only light can , making the water turn brown and pink , making its wave ends sparkle and flash . |
| 26 | She had that kind of gloss that only studio make-up and the last touches by a hairdresser can add . |
| 27 | Towards the end of 1990 the conviction that only force would succeed in bringing about Iraq 's departure was becoming widespread . |
| 28 | This is anti-kitsch — the idea that only shit exists . |
| 29 | The idea that only manufacturing jobs create profit was also challenged and it was suggested that there are many jobs needing to be done in West Belfast — teachers , nurses , creche workers , etc. — which are valuable and contribute , indirectly , to the production of profit . |
| 30 | This definition of the essential nature of firm-type organization must not be confused with the idea that only authority is used to direct resources within firms that exist in the real world . |