Example sentences of "[noun sg] only the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Klopf accuses artificial intelligence researchers of building only the top ( logical , verbal ) storey of a 1000-storey building . |
| 2 | In its use as an auxiliary , do has retained from the idea of " performing an activity " signified in its use as a lexical verb only the notion of " something actually taking its place in time " : do auxiliary thus has the effect of discussing the real actualization in time of the lexical event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 3 | For he can see in the X-ray picture of a chest only the shadows of the heart and ribs , with a few spidery blotches between them . |
| 4 | For instance , when an existing part is modified to produce a new part only the modification is stored along with a reference pointer back to the original part . |
| 5 | Mr Delors said : ‘ In a referendum only the result counts . ’ |
| 6 | If we would have faith only the size of a mustard seed , how our lives would be enhanced . |
| 7 | In this case only the projections of the eccentric spots are visible . |
| 8 | In fact in most of the experiments an infra-red filter was used and in this case only the tungsten source is relevant , as was explained earlier . |
| 9 | The following fields may then be updated ( unless the Issue has already been despatched , in which case only the contact name and the maintenance start/stop dates can be modified ) . |
| 10 | No , I mean , I wrote down here what tone of voice — English obsession with newspaper class , which is what I was talking about format which you covered , and I said that I felt that in the States that seems to an outsider only the New York Times , but even that sort of , as you say , covers a whole range of non-quality , from a British point of view non-quality , press . |
| 11 | He now believed that id only the Shah apologized , then the British would restore him . |
| 12 | If you think that sounds like the sort of luxury only the likes of Joan Collins would have in her bathroom , you 'd be wrong . |
| 13 | The action for private nuisance is therefore designed to protect the use and enjoyment of land , and as a result only the occupier of the land affected or persons having some interest in that land are entitled to sue . |
| 14 | The first was on the local islet of Likangloe , where the once abundant population of wild goats had recently been massively reduced in inverse proportion to that of the snakes which ate them , and where the resident family of fisherfolk had lost a sixteen-year-old daughter to a python only the year before . |
| 15 | In the later Vogue piece only the style remained as the far more overtly sexual , Kahloesque models lounged and pouted in their ‘ Mexican ’ interiors . |
| 16 | The very thought had crossed his mind only the day before , when he contemplated giving up doctoring , as she kept telling him to . |
| 17 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |
| 18 | She was actually Doris Clay , her tartiness only the variety adopted by certain barmaids who hoped to look just a little more glittering than real life . |
| 19 | Do n't let it become the jealously guarded property of one person — treat it as one more tool for teachers to use , not as specialist equipment only the technician is allowed to touch . |
| 20 | The products of all three genes are required for restriction [ 3 ] , while for modification only the products of genes hsdS and hsdM are needed [ 4 , 5 ] . |
| 21 | VIETNAM SEISMIC BREAKTHROUGH ONLY THE BEGINNING |
| 22 | A very simple ( and true ) illustration of this point arose in one accident where a BOAC pilot died flying his own privately owned small aeroplane only the day after he had landed his Boeing 707 full of passengers at Heathrow . |
| 23 | Th th only boys did it and cookery only the girls that did it . |
| 24 | But Durkheim , Eliot noted , did not attribute the origin of religion to wonder or to speculation , but saw in mythology only the savage 's attempt to rationalize and justify his religious practices , ‘ in regard to the true origin of which he is as much in the dark as the scientific investigator ’ . |
| 25 | During that twelve months you get extra supervision and at the during that period the chief constable is entitled to dispose of your service at a week 's notice , but after you get over the probationary period only the Watch Committee could dispose of your services , the onus was on the Watch Committee . |
| 26 | ( a ) First mortgage only The court may order that : The Respondent shall as beneficial owner transfer to the Petitioner absolutely within 28 days from the date of this Order the property at 1 Blackacre Drive , Blackacre , subject to the existing mortgage in favour of the Blackacre Building Society . |
| 27 | It would be possible to record every business transaction directly into the ledger , but the volume would be very great ; therefore , most businesses keep subsidiary books , or books of prime entry as they are called , and post only the totals periodically to the appropriate account in the ledger . |
| 28 | We consider for the moment only the case where His non-negative and D is positive , and assume they are of such a size that overflow does not occur ( see problem 2.4 ) . |
| 29 | At the moment only the US and the soviet Union operate networks of military surveillance satellites . |
| 30 | Of companies of this sort only the liverymen , if indeed all of them , were likely to find their way into the returns . |