Example sentences of "[coord] only [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must be careful with this argument because it is sometimes based on anatomical studies that have used insensitive methods or only a partial consideration of the data . |
| 2 | So if , for instance , you are reading the earliest Gideon books of John Creasey , stop at each fact that you feel inclined to take unto yourself and ask whether it is a reasonably timeless fact , or only a temporary one . |
| 3 | This may be because no solution , or only a temporary solution has been found , or because the desired solution has not yet been implemented . |
| 4 | Whether this perspective represents wisdom or only a curious anachronism today , it commands the scrutiny of a post-war generation in the West brought up to respect the limits of military power more than its utility . |
| 5 | It is necessary by way of preface to emphasise that in no circumstances can in-house benefits give rise to no taxable benefit or only a small taxable benefit if that benefit is to be assessed on an average cost basis . |
| 6 | Land which in 1947 had little development value , and therefore no claim or only a small claim on the fund , may at some future date acquire considerable development value . |
| 7 | Reintroduced foods should be fed in the morning , and again in the afternoon , if there was no reaction , or only a slight reaction , to the first feeding . |
| 8 | Sometimes perpetual debt is issued which carries interest at a relatively high rate for a number of years ( ‘ the primary period' ) , and then bears no further interest , or only a nominal amount . |
| 9 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 10 | If the key elements of ‘ owlness ’ were absent , or only a few were present , the birds showed some curiosity about the dummy but were not stimulated to perform the full mobbing response . |
| 11 | Very or only a little ? ’ |
| 12 | But she did n't respond — at least she did n't do that ! — or only a little bit , only the very smallest bit , because it was so very sweet , so very exciting , so very much what she had always hoped a kiss might be , and if he believed it was what she wanted , why not let him think so ? |
| 13 | Those who have no or only an inadequate contributions record , and those who have exhausted their rights to Unemployment Benefit , can make a claim for means-tested Supplementary Benefit . |
| 14 | Whether there was a direct organisation link between the Party and the unions ( Denmark , Norway and Sweden ) or only an informal relation ( Germany and Austria ) was only of secondary importance . |
| 15 | The St Petersburg mayor , Anatoly Sobchak , made an individual request for food aid from the EC on Sept. 16 , and Ivan Silayev , chair of the Interim Economic Council , had asked for between ECU5,000 million and 6,000 million in aid from the EC on Sept. 9 , although it was unclear whether this was on behalf of all the republics or only the Russian Federation . |
| 16 | To signifies this relation of subsequence in virtue of its potential meaning of a movement from one point in time to another and has been seen to give rise to two clearly identifiable actual meanings according to whether the speaker conceives the whole movement which to is capable of signifying or only the initial part thereof . |
| 17 | Oh , I do n't take the older boys , or only the dimmer ones in the lower streams . |
| 18 | The easiest way to get a component " accepted " is to declare that it has no , or only the simplest , association with the rest of the machine . |
| 19 | There is little tundra in the southern hemisphere ( where there is very little land at appropriate latitudes ) and only a narrow strip in Europe , which is warmed by the Gulf Stream ; but there are vast tracts in the north of Canada and Alaska , and the northern shore of Asia . |
| 20 | The shops on the Garlands ' side of the street backed on the water and only a narrow paved walk separated them from the harbour . |
| 21 | All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again . |
| 22 | Transfers from elsewhere within the UK amounted to 18 per cent and only a tiny proportion had come from abroad . |
| 23 | Removal is easy , with just a pair of pliers , and only a tiny , easily-disguised hole remains . |
| 24 | These young men represented a different kind of leader from those we have so far considered ; the Burma from which they sprang had been influenced by the West far less than India , and only a tiny middle class had assimilated Western education . |
| 25 | Yet by the end of 1690 most prominent laymen and clergy had come to take the oaths to the new regime , and only a tiny minority persisted as Jacobites or Nonjurors . |
| 26 | Chapman , 23 , of Norwood Road , Herne Hill , south London , was fined £80 and ordered to pay £50 costs by magistrates at Streatham , south London , for leaving Ziggy for six days without water and only a tiny piece of cheese to eat . |
| 27 | Reading a rightwing paper never had any significant effect on this aspect of Thatcher 's image and only a small effect on Kinnock 's image in the Pre-Campaign Wave , though its influence grew steadily thereafter : in the first fortnight of the campaign press bias was a little more influential than anything except partisanship and in the second fortnight it was far more influential than anything except partisanship ( Table 8.6 ) . |
| 28 | The clock had been removed for repairs and only a small hook remained in the wall . |
| 29 | Michael pointed out how he had a long curve along the top of the board 's edge , and only a small curve at the bottom . |
| 30 | For example , studies have shown that 90 per cent of boys in the Inner London area admit to having travelled on public transport without a ticket , or to deliberately under-paying ; 82 per cent admit breaking windows of empty houses ; and only a small percentage claim to have committed no offences . |