Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] only the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In houses where only the ground floor is centrally heated , the patient may not feel comfortable in the upstairs area , so if this is where he is to be , for other practical reasons , he will need heaters in his room , or the central heating system should be extended . |
| 2 | No one at the banquet could possibly have crossed the Firth of Forth in such weather with such speed and he knew from his own spies that only the King had crossed the Forth that night . |
| 3 | None is required of schools and only the barest details are maintained on the files : |
| 4 | It probably fooled the listeners as only the presenter knew I was actually in the studio . |
| 5 | We 'll train you how not to ‘ blow it ’ on an important shot , lose an important lead , make the same mistake time and time again and other skills that only the pro 's could afford to know . |
| 6 | Empirically , an immediate problem arises from the fact that ( 7 ) uses ex ante expectations of relative returns although only the ex post outturn is actually observed . |
| 7 | I prefer patterns that do n't produce large areas where only the cotton thread has knitted , so I tend to choose patterns that only have one or two punched holes ( or marked squares on electronic patterns ) counting horizontally . |
| 8 | Corbetts , if you must , but the new bagging fashion is to find mountains that only the cognoscenti know and take at least a day 's walk to get into . |
| 9 | Any of these could be used as rollers but only the circle has a constant centre , permitting a hub . |
| 10 | As it is , we are given five pages which briefly outline the genesis and original publication of the seven essays and only the briefest contextualisation of the pieces within a broader historical framework . |
| 11 | Soon all the grown-up Minpins , excepting Don Mini , had flown away on birds and only the tiny children were left . |
| 12 | The latter belief explicitly rejects consistency as a virtue in its own right , while the former demands a balancing of public interests against those of the particular defendant in the light of moral judgements that only the magistrate is qualified to make . |
| 13 | In long distance remote sensing with solar illumination the atmosphere absorbs energy in certain bands and only the remaining ‘ windows ’ are available . |
| 14 | That did not mean much , since Kursk was itself a drowsy centre with almost no factories and only the main railway line from Moscow to enliven it . |
| 15 | There is predation by peccaries and rodents , which eat seeds ( most of the others eating the pericarp and leaving the seeds under the trees ) : occasionally primates , coatis , kinkajous and so on disperse seeds but only the bat , Artibeus lituratus , the agouti and the squirrel Sciurus granatensis disperse large numbers , the last two being seed predators most of the time , but sometimes dropping or scatter hoarding seeds . |
| 16 | At the end of the debate on the document , the Institute 's Council did not endorse the proposals but only the publication of the report for consultation purposes . |
| 17 | Certain premises are excluded from the Act , e.g. small family businesses where only the immediate family are employed . |
| 18 | However , in families where only the father had achieved literacy , child mortality is lower than in others where neither parent had done so . |
| 19 | Even then , Terry and I used to have arguments when one of us discovered that Gary had knowledge of things that only the two of us knew . |
| 20 | The final phase of your initial training takes you back to HMS Raleigh where you will learn things that only the Navy can teach you , such as field cookery in areas of natural disaster and practical experience of bulk cookery in our large galleys . |
| 21 | One of the few established facts about psychotic illness is that it runs in families and only the most stubborn social theorist could now deny that one reason for this is that the disposition to it , at least , is partly inherited . |
| 22 | This may be bad news if you do not have sufficient continuous service to qualify for rights if only the statutory period is added , although you would have had sufficient service if the longer notice period to which you are entitled under your contract were added . |
| 23 | When we consider the nature of many items that only the state uses ( or hopefully does not use ! ) |
| 24 | Notes There are several flights of stairs and only the auditorium is wheelchair accessible . |
| 25 | If they have money , they can go into private homes or villages where only the elderly can live . |
| 26 | After all Koresh 's apocalyptic vision , his talk of the seven seals that only the lamb of God can unlock , sounded like refinements of what they already believed . |
| 27 | However , it has also been suggested that since there is a dominance hierarchy among the females and only the subordinates do badly , it may be that it is only younger females that fare worse in big harems than they would if they were monogamous . |
| 28 | The connections are sealed joints and only the Electricity Board may make these joints and provide the two service wires to each house , where they terminate in a sealed , fused container . |
| 29 | The whole thing is , ideally , completely invisible to the users and only the network supervisor software can modify the various priority levels . |
| 30 | Both these styles and slip-on loafers were made by Faith Royals but only the brogue was popularly called ‘ Royals ’ . |