Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] only [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had practised together for only an hour , yet it seemed like an eternity . |
| 2 | Vocals went straight down with only the minimum of top end EQ to keep them sharp , and when I went for the final mixdown I have to say I was amazed at how big a sound was coming back from the monitors . |
| 3 | But nearly a third of the supporters who took advantage of the offer did so with only the Republic game in mind — and did n't bother turning up last night . |
| 4 | And if self aware role modelling in medicine were to include a declared abstention from all the quiet words , phone calls , and fixings of the present highly selective mechanisms of patronage then the expectations of medical students and junior doctors , especially women and those from ethnic minorities , could be transformed , perhaps within only a generation or two . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that he was personally on only the periphery of the Polanski affair , he was caught up in the backwash , in the resultant discussion of the wider issues of the counter-culture , and it was in this category that the critics had firmly placed their new star as the analysis of his role in Easy Rider continued through the run-up to the Oscar presentations and beyond . |
| 6 | The receiver has gone in at only the parent company , and Sharp yesterday made it clear that seven of its 15 operating subsidiaries were going concerns . |
| 7 | They presented a target thus for only a matter of seconds , though three of them fell in that time ; then they were hand-to-hand and at blows with the prince 's bodyguard and this was battle as it had formerly been understood between knights , and the hovering archers were crippled and out of the fight . |
| 8 | On one of the islands he saw a shaggy water rat ; he shouted at it and it slid into the water and swam away with only the top of its head showing . |
| 9 | I could neither remain unemployed for eighteen months nor begin a new job now and break off after only a year . |
| 10 | With central heating and fewer smokers these days , the decoration in a home can last 10 years or more with only a couple of adult occupants and you could therefore feel the need for change long before it really needs doing . |
| 11 | Available on or off the bone , the meat is usually from only the breasts of the birds and is lightly smoked , moist and quite delicious . |
| 12 | Crosby , battling on with only a one-year-contract and persistent speculation about his future , reckons the only way to silence the gossips is by climbing into the promotion frame . |
| 13 | The fact that the Ceauşescus had countless colour televisions added to the perverse aspect of their superabundance since ordinary Romanians had to put up with only a couple of hours of black-and-white television each day — and that largely devoted to the doings of the residents of the Palaţul Primaverii . |
| 14 | Marjorie ( Joanna Lumley ) , for instance , whom Shirley envied for her academic prospects , ends up with only the freedom of high-class prostitution . |
| 15 | The next day , the villagers found Babushka dead in the straw , curled up with only an ox and an ass to watch over her . |
| 16 | Crawford had been ordered to take a few days ' rest after pulling a leg muscle , but he was back after only a day , filming at the Piazzale del Faro . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ We have dominated our last two games and come out with only a couple of points . |
| 18 | Doodle , a funny little insect thing , is determined to rescue the fair maiden and sets out with only a set of pencils to his name . |
| 19 | The revised scheme proposed that the water authorities , now with only the functions of water supply and sewage disposal , should be privatised , but that a new National Rivers Authority should be created ( in the public sector ) to take over from the water authorities the regulatory functions of pollution control , water conservation , land drainage and flood protection , conservation , recreation , fisheries and navigation . |
| 20 | Another major player , Microsoft Corp , so far with only a tippy-toe in the open systems waters , needs to control the definition and evolution of computing to maintain its momentum , Wendler says . |
| 21 | The radial shields are small , rounded often with only the tips visible . |
| 22 | A postal survey of genitourinary medicine clinics in 1988 showed that a third offered hepatitis B vaccine to clinic attenders , and a recent audit report from a London genitourinary medicine clinic estimated that vaccine was delivered successfully to only a quarter of susceptible new homosexual patients . |
| 23 | He himself was here for only a day or two . |
| 24 | Even with only the headings entered some columns obviously need to be widened . |
| 25 | At worst she would be out of here in only a day or two . |
| 26 | He bowed to her a little formally and then with only a hint of self-mockery kissed her hand . |
| 27 | He left again after only an hour . ’ |
| 28 | Its two pink legs ended in four toes , all pointing forward with only a suggestion of balancing heel . |
| 29 | If the proposals leaked they would be dynamite inside the health service , and yet they had come round with only the routine ‘ confidential ’ security classification . |