Example sentences of "[verb] only the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headlights revealed only the worn flagstones of the farmyard , the archway into the byre on the ground floor of the house , the crumbling steps that had once given access to the living quarters above . |
| 2 | A thorough search of the Sea Rover revealed only the charred remnants of what was later analysed as cannabis , blowing around the decks . |
| 3 | Footballers and boxers , too , often have their entry into the sports world aided by zealous school teachers , though , overwhelmingly , they choose to see only the formative years up to , say , the age of 13 as affected by teachers . |
| 4 | ‘ Obediently she did as he bade her , her gaze travelling round the empty room , seeing only the elegant lines of fitted furniture , the newly made bed , the bedside table with one large volume hanging open — and another fallen untidily on the floor beside it . |
| 5 | His description of the recovery of a Hunter over a Swiss airshow served as another graphic reminder that a performance should emphasize the aircraft 's character but should utilize only the established skills of the pilot — and should never require his super-human efforts to get out of a situation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Figure 6.3b shows yet another type of homoclinic orbit ; this one involves only the stationary points and C " . |
| 8 | Here we can consider only the final versions . |
| 9 | For a given BFS , if we choose the so that whenever is basic , then ( 8.2 ) contains only the non-basic variables and we can deduce that is the objective-row coefficient of . |
| 10 | The ceasefire provided for the withdrawal and disarming of all armed groups by the end of 1991 , excepting only the Soviet troops stationed there . |
| 11 | Whether or not her swingometer led her to an appropriate purchasing decision , he has n't heard ; in fact , she was dowsing only the organic wines , so it was n't a completely random process . |
| 12 | She may even do this by denying the bad experiences in her marriage to herself and to others , remembering only the good times , however few they were , and concentrating her thoughts on the positive aspects of her husband 's personality . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Where a departure affects only the corresponding amounts , the disclosures required by this abstract should be given for those corresponding amounts . |
| 17 | The drawing shows only the enclosing boxes for the comprising assemblies and parts in the highest , " machine " , level of the hierarchical structure . |
| 18 | All this was done by the morning of the I twelfth day ; and all that day the people of the Cid were busied in making ready their arms , and in loading beasts with all that they had , so that they left nothing of any price in the whole city of Valencia , save only the empty houses . |
| 19 | If we consider only the superficial elements of these changes in society , and deal with the problem purely at the level at which the Bill deals with it , we shall not do justice to the House or to the people of this country . |
| 20 | If the explanation of affinity is true , then it is possible that spermatozoa produced by a male hybrid would contain only the paternal chromosomes , and will therefore carry the Y sex chromosome , a donkey-Y in male mules and a horse-Y in male hinnies . |
| 21 | ‘ Have you been resting ? ’ he asked , his voice holding only the cool politeness a host would show to his guest . |
| 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 | An observer at a distance from the black hole can measure only the outgoing particles , and he can not correlate them with those that fall into the hole because he can not observe them . |
| 24 | Hard cheeses are more fatty , the whey having been pressed out of the cheese to leave only the fatty curds . |
| 25 | In the mid-1880s , Mr Lawson Tait , who as police surgeon in Birmingham during the 1890s exhibited a profoundly misogynist attitude in his treatment of rape victims , commented that ‘ to leave only the inferior women to perpetuate the species will do more to deteriorate the human race than all the individual victories at Girton will do to benefit it ’ . |
| 26 | Disk Mirror is useful when copying large disks from one drive to another , especially over a network , as you can copy only the required directories . |
| 27 | This switched supply introduces a non-linearity , which can be eliminated by considering only the fundamental components of voltage and current . |
| 28 | The reforms which he proposed — including measures to increase religious toleration , reduce legal disabilities of Jews , extend primary education , discipline local officials , strengthen respect for the law among rulers as well as ruled , extend peasant representation in the zemstvos and establish a new lower-level tier of zemstvos elected on an all-class franchise — touched only the outer fringes of noble privilege and executive power . |
| 29 | His arm reached out for Jane — and touched only the still-warm sheets . |
| 30 | Since we do not expect the front-end to recognize only the correct phonemes we also look at less informative representations . |