Example sentences of "[adj] only [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While most practising firms are having no difficulty in retaining and recruiting staff in the midst of a recession , the situation was , of course , very different only a year or two ago and will probably change again just as rapidly . |
| 2 | The Education Reform Act 1988 has produced a degree of prescription and central control to which the government was apparently resistant only a couple of years before its enactment . |
| 3 | But the magistrates said French had flouted the court order and his record — of sixty five convictions for animal cruelty — was so serious only a prison sentence was appropriate . |
| 4 | Policy discussions at ministerial level appeared to focus mainly on the hoary old issues of which agency should take lead responsibility , ’ but finally , in 1989 , the government took a decision which was considered unthinkable only a year earlier , that is , that local authority social services departments should be given lead responsibility for community care and for all services including mental health , but with some additional controls added in the latter case , the single most controversial of Griffiths ' proposals . |
| 5 | Film actors are not the only ones getting vastly rich : some pop stars command sums that would have been unthinkable only a decade ago . |
| 6 | Others may feel that the cage has become , or is becoming , somewhat more explicit as a result of central government activity — leading to an emphasis upon the direct controls which would have appeared as unthinkable only a decade ago . |
| 7 | Since the wires are stationary only the disc contributes to the e.m.f. , hence the integration over the closed path reduces to integration along the radius of the disc , yielding |
| 8 | If parents are not married only the mother has legal responsibility for a child , unless the father has obtained a court order or [ after October 1991 ] the couple have formally agreed that they should both have parental responsibility . |
| 9 | LEFT Home computers were unheard-of only a couple of decades ago ; now they have become routine magic' . |
| 10 | THE ORGANISERS of the Portuguese Grand Prix , who fined Nigel Mansell $50,000 for allegedly breaking the rules during the race at Estoril on 24 September , said yesterday that their case concerned only the motor racing authorities and is not a civil action as previously thought . |
| 11 | ( First Edition ) THE ORGANISERS of the Portuguese Grand Prix , who fined Nigel Mansell and Ferrari $50,000 for allegedly breaking the rules during their race at Estoril on 24 September , said yesterday that their case concerned only the motor racing authorities and was not a civil action , as previously reported . |
| 12 | In the judgment in Ex parte Jaderow Ltd. the court ruled , inter alia , that a member state might lay down conditions designed to ensure that the vessel had a real economic link with that state if that link concerned only the relations between that vessel 's fishing operations and the populations dependent on fisheries and related industries . |
| 13 | He named Mark Flatts in his squad at Sheffield United only a week after giving 18-year-old Ian Selley his debut . |
| 14 | In general only a minority of holidays are affected in this way and most changes to the published arrangements are small and whenever possible these changes will be advised at the time of booking or as quickly as possible after they occur . |
| 15 | The main advantage of a limited company is that in general only the company and not the individual is liable for the business debts . |
| 16 | This improvement became available only a couple of years ago in the shape of Gore-Tex booties . |
| 17 | ‘ Damn , ’ said Charlie under his breath , as the moon made another entrance on to the centre of the stage and left them lying motionless only a street 's length away from safety . |
| 18 | When IBM 's AT ( the 286 based computer ) was launched in late 1984 , it ran at 8MHz , but it was n't long before faster and faster oscillator speeds were used — a 25MHz 286 based machine was quite common only a couple of years ago . |
| 19 | The exhibits in the Brussels exhibition seem to have had in common only a concentration on clearly defined simple forms and a corresponding limitation of colour , and very few of them had anything at all in common with the work of Picasso and Braque . |
| 20 | This is usually achieved easily enough by line breeding , though if the mutated genes are not dominant only a percentage of each brood is likely to be of the new form . |
| 21 | The heat on the rock flow became intense only an hour or two after sunrise . |