Example sentences of "[noun sg] only [art] [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 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | All the while long lines of lorries trundled along the streets as if it was 1945 and the retreating Wehrmacht only a couple of miles away . |
| 6 | THE GROWTH of our London Division continues , and the latest to join the fold is SG Warburg , a highly prestigious contract only a stone 's throw away from the City Road office . |
| 7 | In order to allow the experiment to be completed by subjects in one hour only a subset of the original films from Studies 2 and 3 were used . |
| 8 | Ideally an entry which is at present only a cross-reference might be better made into a full entry , while the existing entries might be better turned into cross-references , and so on . |
| 9 | In the 1987 United Kingdom general election only a handful of very small parties that were genuinely political fielded candidates . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She went into the tiny pantry and busied herself , preparing the ingredients she had had brought from the kitchen only an hour before . |
| 12 | Mr Delors said : ‘ In a referendum only the result counts . ’ |
| 13 | It is of course only a question of time and evolution . |
| 14 | If we would have faith only the size of a mustard seed , how our lives would be enhanced . |
| 15 | Later my father again applied for leave of absence , which Your Grace refused to grant , though you permitted me , who am in any case only a half-time servant , to travel alone . |
| 16 | In this case only the projections of the eccentric spots are visible . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |
| 21 | He now believed that id only the Shah apologized , then the British would restore him . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Welshmen , crouching low and running like hares , overtook the two who led the laden horse only a matter of minutes before they were themselves overtaken . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , such a concentration only a fortnight before the examination — which is too often the accepted state of affairs — is quite useless as a means of understanding and learning the skills of the subject . |
| 25 | To his second , favourite son Alfonso , he gave the Kingdom of Leon and the Campos Goticos , together with the tributes from the Moorish kingdom of Toledo , whose overlord he had successfully beaten into submission only a year before . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Most unfortunate , had been in action only a couple of hours . |
| 29 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 30 | In the later Vogue piece only the style remained as the far more overtly sexual , Kahloesque models lounged and pouted in their ‘ Mexican ’ interiors . |