Example sentences of "[vb pp] only the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , assuming that the time elapsing between a subject 's decision to respond and the actual pressing of the button was about 75 milliseconds , subjects on average identified the target after having heard only the first 200 milliseconds of it . |
| 2 | Up to now I have heard only the few reluctant words in the lane . |
| 3 | ‘ Then , Benedict , you have heard only the scandalous tale . |
| 4 | Numbers were small ; but a final case study approach revealed that for people who lived alone , had no informal carer who could manage all necessary care ; and had a high level of cognitive impairment , the Home Support Project was likely to prolong home care beyond that of those who had received only the usual services . |
| 5 | The first being that he had driven such motor cars before , and the second that he had consumed only the barest minimum of champagne . |
| 6 | Had he agreed to resign , he would have been entitled to his superannuation for 29 years ' service in Poor Law Institutions ; as it was , he was given only the nine years entitlement from his time at Bedford . |
| 7 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 8 | He 'd added only the four to his overnight single , then fell to Rafeill — caught Mark Taylor . |
| 9 | A good deal of language teaching has followed a bottom-up approach , in that it has considered only the formal language system , often in isolated sentences , without demonstrating or developing the way that system operates in context . |
| 10 | The England hooker , who has already said that he would have accepted only the usual expenses had he undertaken this summer 's tour of the Republic marking the South African Rugby Board 's centenary , has now been quoted as saying that ‘ remuneration was mentioned . ’ |
| 11 | Men fear rejection , disdain and loneliness only because they have never experienced them or if they have experienced them , they have felt only the normal reactions of despair and unhappiness . |
| 12 | Russell has also made only the single appearance in the green jersey — against England at Twickenham in 1990 . |
| 13 | The name Champagne comes from the Latin campagna , signifying open , unforested land : an ambiguous origin for those who have seen only the hilly vineyards of Champagne surmounted by forest . |
| 14 | He was fortunate to be shown only the yellow card . |
| 15 | Doc Threadneedle had used only the best scav medtech from the Thalamus Corp . |
| 16 | His own hair was combed out over his shoulders , and for make-up he had used only the faintest trace of kohl . |
| 17 | She had used only the top room of the mill which she had furnished simply with a small writing table and chair facing the North Sea , a telephone and her binoculars . |
| 18 | I have had only the highest regard for Amnesty and have never written to you like this before . |
| 19 | If she 'd had only the clerical level of interface that she was supposed to have , she 'd never have found it . |
| 20 | Before the accidental drowning of her husband four years earlier , she and Martin had needed only the occasional companionship of friendly acquaintances to affirm their self-sufficiency . |
| 21 | She has been offered only the statutory minimum of £4,715 in redundancy pay . |
| 22 | The assumption that the rate of technical advance is exogenous has meant that tax policy affected only the steady-state levels of the capital-labour ratio , wages , etc . |
| 23 | Middlesbrough-born Glendenen went on to score the first century , having become only the second Durham player to make a double-century when he hit 200 not out against Victoria last September in a three-day match unluckily denied first-class status . |
| 24 | BOYZ II MEN 's ‘ End Of The Road ’ has become only the third single in 30 years to spend more than ten weeks at the top of the Billboard chart . |
| 25 | If not , subjects with limited literature may be subdivided too extensively , producing unused or little used subdivisions , whereas ‘ large ’ subjects , if allocated only the same number of subdivisions , will have some trying to accommodate unmanageable quantities of literature . |
| 26 | The clash marked only the second occasion in 70 years on which police had opened fire on a white crowd . |
| 27 | Some , who have experienced only the old-style rote learning of facts and dates , may well believe that the subject is already educationally bankrupt and will take a great deal of persuading that history is not only educationally solvent and viable but is vital to the balance and well-being of the curricular economy of the 1990s . |
| 28 | Having recovered only the partial use of one hand , he set to work and wrote Beneath the Visiting Moon . |
| 29 | The authorities approached the crisis cautiously ; in Suffolk the dukes arrested only the four principal offenders , and even they were pardoned when they were brought before the Star Chamber ( 66 , pp.115–16 ; 73 , pp.17–19 ) . |
| 30 | The earlier Moghuls had ruled only the northern half or two-thirds of the sub-continent but Aurangzeb , who ruled from 1658 to 1707 , set out to conquer the south and was almost completely successful in this . |