Example sentences of "[prep] only the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the decoy party displayed the Lion Rampant of Scotland , that would surely indicate high authority , for only the King or his Regent were entitled to fly that flag . |
| 2 | Mrs Barzach will have a much more difficult time retaining her seat in the 15th arrondissement of Paris , which she has represented for only the past three years and where she is standing against the well-established local RPR mayor ( and deputy mayor of the capital ) . |
| 3 | Presumably Keith had found the Regent not far away , for only the day following the great cavalry host appeared over the lip of Scremerston Brae once more , to descend to the Spittal . |
| 4 | Rain spoiled the opening day of Durham 's first match as a first-class county to the extent that play was possible for only the morning session , which allowed Paul Parker and John Glendenen to put on 119 in an untroubled manner off 34 overs . |
| 5 | The safest way to do this is to write a program which consists of only the machine code routines and enough BBCBASIC(Z80) to assemble them . |
| 6 | Should we take account of only the material standards of village life or should we include such an apparently ephemeral notion as what is colloquially referred to as ‘ community spirit ’ , the sense of identity and belonging , which the inhabitants feel ? |
| 7 | Mr Spencer was persuaded north as the press 's secretary , and dramatically expanded its output from some 20 academic titles a year to around 90 , an expansion achieved with an increase of only the Polygon staff to EUP 's 14 indefatigable full-time staff members . |
| 8 | SIB Core Rule 18(2) and SFA Rule 5 — 33(2) permit disclosure of only the basis of commission to a private customer . |
| 9 | This area became our most precious place ; where we took the children to teach them how to fish ; to watch black , and red-throated divers , golden eagle , golden plover , greenshank and dunlin ; where we could walk endless miles with only the sky and the wind for company . |
| 10 | To put it another way , a noun , as an item from the lexicon of the language , has descriptive content and may be considered as a property concept just as much as any verb or adjective , with only the exception that it is habitually used in individual acts of communication in order to identify an entity , by means of that descriptive content . |
| 11 | Standing on the south bank and looking across the river at the village , one can see that it is still well-wooded with only the church spire and a small number of houses visible through the trees . |
| 12 | She said quietly , with only the noise of the engine as accompaniment , ‘ I want to apologise , sincerely apologise , for being so childish and stupid and rude to you . |
| 13 | He had warned her that she would be on her own , with only the butler for company , until Saturday when he returned . |
| 14 | The Prince , momentarily forgetting his orders for Sharpe to change into Dutch uniform , dominated the luncheon conversation as he eagerly expressed his wish that the French would attack before the Duke returned from his meeting with the Prussians , for then the Prince could defeat the enemy with only the help of his faithful Dutch troops . |
| 15 | This discussion implies three things for the definition of social policy : first , that the policies that are identified as ‘ social ’ should not be interpreted as if they were conceived and implemented with only the welfare of the public in mind ; second , that other policies , not conventionally identified as social policies , may make a comparable , or even greater , contribution to welfare ; third , that public policy should be seen as a whole in which social policies are significantly inter linked with other public policies . |
| 16 | It should be deep enough for the fish to bury the shell with only the opening showing . |
| 17 | Marjorie ( Joanna Lumley ) , for instance , whom Shirley envied for her academic prospects , ends up with only the freedom of high-class prostitution . |
| 18 | The open road was all he knew ; he had spent forty of his fifty-five years tramping it in every kind of weather with only the fill of his pipe for company . |
| 19 | She would not have told him where she was going , but for the life of her she would not have been able to invent a pressing enough reason for leaving the house , least of all with only the shelter of her flimsy summer hat , since an umbrella had not been top of her list of things to pack when she had hurriedly boarded the plane at Heathrow . |
| 20 | Soaked and tattered , crimson and black , it flopped arm-over-leg to the floor like some discarded overcoat or the eviscerated pelt of some large animal , with only the head intact . |
| 21 | She could not help thinking , with great sadness of heart , that perhaps she had sent Johnny to die in his little aircraft , with only the memory of her cold eyes and her hard , unloving words . |
| 22 | So far , we have dealt with only the ordering of information in writing . |
| 23 | Weight loss was positively correlated with only the reduction of systolic blood pressure ( P<0.01 ) . |
| 24 | It was a huge house , too big to survive as a single occupied unit ; a developer had stripped it out and done a thorough conversion to make it into four self-contained apartments with only the hall and stairs common to each . |
| 25 | The empty two-unit pacer passenger train was returning from Goole to its depot at Doncaster , with only the driver and guard on board . |
| 26 | This can be either broad , with the full expression of human feeling common only to the Labour movement , or it may be narrow , niggardly and mean with only the objective of shirking responsibility , and never carrying out in the spirit of those laws work which could be applied to make the conditions of the working people easier , and the lives of their children brighter and better . |
| 27 | The CASCADE option form the WINDOWS menu arranges the program group boxes in a cascade fashion with only the title bars showing . |
| 28 | ‘ I was just imagining spending an entire life closeted with only the company of your own sex … ’ |
| 29 | The clue to one 's dissatisfaction comes on page 60 when , in the course of a short section on advertising and television , Hewison writes , ‘ Our world picture breaks up , splintered into clips and cuts , suspended on an unending flow of imagery , a single sentence of infinite variety , with only the passage of time as continuity . ’ |
| 30 | At the end of the season , three clubs would be relegated from the Premier Division , with only the championship winners being promoted from the First Division . |