Example sentences of "[coord] only the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 32 | There is no room number on the key card and only the correct code punched on the card will operate and open the room door . |
| 33 | It all becomes a matter of working out how to get something done in the company , and this in itself is a matter of finding the right lever to pull , since all the concentration is on political in-fighting , and only the bare minimum on the actual achievement of a competitive advantage in the real world outside . |
| 34 | Soon all the grown-up Minpins , excepting Don Mini , had flown away on birds and only the tiny children were left . |
| 35 | erm , my Lord , in relation to that erm and er is an example , the European court itself and only the European court has the power to limit the direct effect of the provision , they can say well it has direct effect in these circumstances prospectively , but not retroactively and only the European court , that court alone has that power , all other courts , national courts must , my Lord this is your duty under article five I would submit to enforce article eighty five and three F |
| 36 | erm , my Lord , in relation to that erm and er is an example , the European court itself and only the European court has the power to limit the direct effect of the provision , they can say well it has direct effect in these circumstances prospectively , but not retroactively and only the European court , that court alone has that power , all other courts , national courts must , my Lord this is your duty under article five I would submit to enforce article eighty five and three F |
| 37 | Although the food is deteriorating , and only the powerful eat well . |
| 38 | A Soviet commentator explained that the Soviet programme unveiled at Delhi would provide ‘ reliable guarantees of the legitimate interests , and only the legitimate interests of all countries , including the industrial capitalist countries ’ . |
| 39 | The blast set the 29-year-old on fire and only the prompt action of a passer-by prevented potentially fatal injuries . |
| 40 | Its show combined adventure , innovation and fun with the important wearability factor , and only the blinkered did not leave impressed . |
| 41 | The transformer simply plugs into a mains socket indoors or in a garage , and only the low-voltage wire is taken outside . |
| 42 | Strict rules on the make-up of a British Standard tab would stop it being cut with more harmful drugs , and only the best form of the drug would be traded . |
| 43 | His extraordinary eyes he veiled with lowered lids and humility , and only the satirical curve of his long lips , accentuated by those twin russet flames that forked upwards through his short black beard , caused the chamberlain who admitted him to look at him a second time . |
| 44 | Braintree started to control the midfield in the second half and only the final touch in the circle let them down . |
| 45 | In order to avoid any confusion , patients with small or long finger like projections of gastric mucosa or ‘ creeping substitution ’ were completely excluded from the present study and only the circumferential extension of gastric mucosa , which may be regular or irregular , was considered as Barrett 's oesophagus . |
| 46 | The islands were not visible at all and only the lower slopes of Vesuvius could be seen . |
| 47 | Big Jimmy Hughes was Palace 's bulwark at centre-half throughout the decade 1910 to 1920 , and only the 1st World War prevented him from amassing a huge total of appearances for the club . |
| 48 | Any matter that fell into the hole would be destroyed at the singularity , and only the gravitational effect of its mass would continue to be felt outside . |
| 49 | ( Elinor did not drink either tea or coffee and only the occasional glass of mint tea . |
| 50 | There are no charts or diagrams to help even the experienced reader to follow the argument , nor references , and only the occasional illustration of a skull . |
| 51 | Throughout that spring they saw nothing of Maria , and only the occasional letter came . |
| 52 | Yet it remains as a holy sanctuary where birds and green slime mould give it life and only the occasional human passer-by ventures in to discover its cavernous majesty . |
| 53 | In such cases the phase information is superfluous because it is implied in the plot of the amplitude behaviour and only the latter is required . |
| 54 | This is a holy war , and only the Prime Mover can decide who lives and who dies . |
| 55 | The salt contains a pH buffer , and only the useful trace elements required by marine life . |
| 56 | The quality of product delivered by BR management is experienced daily by the many thousands who travel to and from Waterloo , where the indicator boards are frequently inactive at peak travel time in the evening , and only the desultory , forlorn and uncertain voices of junior staff is available to advise hapless passengers over the tannoy when and where they might expect to find an uncancelled train to get them home on time — if they are lucky — and to deliver an occasional apology . |
| 57 | The book partakes of the American ‘ Trapper and Mountain Man ’ tradition : tough living , long hard treks , hardly a woman from cover to cover , and only the inevitable dog for company . |
| 58 | The true heart of Morar is in its unfrequented interior where tourists never go and only the brave venture . |
| 59 | The bomb had been a direct hit and only the last few dwellings had still been standing afterwards . |
| 60 | 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 . |