Example sentences of "[noun sg] only the [noun sg] " 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 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 . |
| 4 | Mr Delors said : ‘ In a referendum only the result counts . ’ |
| 5 | If we would have faith only the size of a mustard seed , how our lives would be enhanced . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the later Vogue piece only the style remained as the far more overtly sexual , Kahloesque models lounged and pouted in their ‘ Mexican ’ interiors . |
| 11 | The very thought had crossed his mind only the day before , when he contemplated giving up doctoring , as she kept telling him to . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | VIETNAM SEISMIC BREAKTHROUGH ONLY THE BEGINNING |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ( 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | The greatest danger to the West may be a USSR militarily strong and politically on the defensive : ‘ politics ’ , as Lenin said , ‘ is the reason , war only the tool ’ . |
| 22 | Beginning by a fantastic attempt to construct pedigrees where sons were their own fathers , I became gradually so involved that I remember wondering if God the Father were in truth only the child that grew up into Jesus Christ . |
| 23 | In the 36th minute only the alertness of Lukic had prevented McCoist from scoring . |
| 24 | And when she came to the last name only the fact that she was already frozen saved her from betraying herself . |
| 25 | There were no cries — no spitting of a cat , no squealing of a rabbit only the crackling of twigs and the tearing of the grass in violence . |
| 26 | If less than 3 waiting days have been served in a PIW only the balance of waiting days will remain to be served in a later linked PIW . |
| 27 | One of the sherds ( fig. 14.33c ) appears to be an arm with the skin of the Nemean lion draped over the shoulder and another sherd ( fig. 14.33b ) shows a hand holding a staff or rod being thrust into a creature only the head of which survives on the sherd . |
| 28 | In the dark stillness only the surface of the river moved . |
| 29 | After each fresh deluge only the skeleton of solid objects , the irregular vertebrae of furniture , trunks , packing-cases and other miscellaneous objects , was left standing over the swamp . |
| 30 | Please note also that for this week ONLY the evening Mass at St. Philip 's Priory , Begbroke has been transferred from Wednesday to Thursday evening , for the Feast of St. Philip Benizi , at 7.00 pm . |