Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , accounting and economic literature has only begun to do this relatively recently . |
| 2 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
| 3 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
| 4 | Left to right strategies consider only those word matches whose left-hand end corresponds to a possible utterance initial boundary . |
| 5 | By contrast , the failure to introduce new benefits , payments or services is a much blunter grievance : political opponents have only something hypothetical to discuss ; individual electors do not easily identify themselves with the deprived . |
| 6 | A straw poll covering 40 London restaurants and two large liquor-store chains unearthed only one outlet not intending to re-order Perrier when it becomes available again . |
| 7 | ( b ) A single-address or one-address computer holds only one store address per instruction . |
| 8 | The three-count indictment named only one defendant , Joanna G. O'Rourke , the former manager of the House Post Office . |
| 9 | The whole would , in effect , form a gigantic hollow girder supported only at its ends . |
| 10 | At 8 o'clock on Friday , June 15th , over 30 teenagers met in the church Family Centre for a strange ritual known only to a few as MIDNIGHTICESKATING . |
| 11 | Although air and fuel vapour will burn when mixed in proportions ranging between 8:1 and 20:1 ( by weight ) , complete combustion occurs only at an air/fuel ratio of about 15:1 . |
| 12 | In the 1978 student elections at Birzeit the Islamic bloc won only 3 per cent of the vote but a year later , inspired by Khomeini 's victory , it won 43 per cent . |
| 13 | Even at the highest pressures used here , the progressive loss of conduction by the small amounts of fluid still remaining in the pores unfortunately prevents quantitative comparisons with a dry rock containing only compact carbon and matrix minerals . |
| 14 | Their encounter the previous day had proved to be somewhat tedious , her most thoughtful conversational gambits earning only strange , disconnected replies . |
| 15 | In some fantastic way , he could see his mind like these barren screes — a frozen cascade of broken rock face lying on the more solid rock waiting only for an impulse to charge it into dangerous motion . |
| 16 | Morgenthau 's Realist theory was , as we have said , based on six principles , outlined in an introductory chapter added only in the second edition of the book ; this fact may explain why the six principles do not deal explicitly with two of the three concepts that are central to the remainder of the book , namely ‘ national interest ’ and the ‘ balance of power ’ . |
| 17 | Although the case is 10U the working units occupy only 7U of rack space , so there is room for expanding the system should the need arise . |
| 18 | While similar region versus district confrontations elsewhere in Scotland are deliberately being kept low-key , particularly in Labour-dominated areas , there are signs of open warfare in Highland , where the political parties have only limited influence . |
| 19 | Each was also equipped with a Very pistol and two flares , one green one red , a torch with the glass masked by sticky tape to leave only a pencil-thin beam , and a radio transmitter tuned to a master receiver in Springfield 's car . |
| 20 | Although partial 16S sequences ( the first 700 bases ) are known for incompatibility bacteria from several insect species , nearly complete sequences have only been published for incompatibility bacteria of the mosquito Culex pipiens and wasps of the genus Nasonia . |
| 21 | Dalgliesh raised it with careful fingers touching only the extreme edge of the cloth and saw underneath a smudge of blood on the carpet about two centimetres long and thicker at the right end than at the left . |
| 22 | There should be a few outstanding British artists in both sections , even if it means a kind of devaluation of those British artists represented only in the national collections . |
| 23 | Since , women 's break in labour-market experience constitutes only a small part of their life-spans , other factors must help account for their disadvantaged position . |
| 24 | The deep , transparent heart seeks only for God . |
| 25 | Tossed between them like a broken toy fit only for the dustbin . |
| 26 | In this , one recognises that he is trying to defend the questionable but deeply entrenched politico-sociological dogma that social phenomena result only from social causes . |
| 27 | Mrs Saint Germain , a member of the Grolier Club , began collecting Scottish literature aged only eight , when a family friend gave her an 1832 copy of Robert Burns poems . |
| 28 | The upheaval in British banking has only started . |
| 29 | In 1772 , when Frederick had admitted to the Danzig Chamber that the population of Pomerania was mainly Polish , it is estimated that the German speakers formed only about 13 per cent of the Pomeranian noble element . |
| 30 | Vento composed Italian madrigals for the Bavarian duke , his master , but his collections of rather old-fashioned German songs include only one , the Neue teutsche Lieder mit dreien Stimmen ( Munich , 1572 ) , that shows Italian influence . |