Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He was , I think , even more solipsistic than I was : self-centred as only a man constrained within his own view of what constituted his masculinity could be . |
| 32 | Benefits were low because only a minute proportion of copulations result in a reared cub in the next generation ( Journal of Zoology , vol 177 , p 463 ) . |
| 33 | ‘ Even if the Mad Killer epithet will be attributed to me by the media , I consider myself a rational erudite that only the arrival of the Grim Reaper has forced to take extreme acts . |
| 34 | The fact that this extra testing can produce extra diagnoses implies that a proportion of those cases diagnosed as NGU would turn out to be trichomonal if only the organism were adequately looked for . |
| 35 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 36 | According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’ |
| 37 | Indeed , in the first series of patients only 72% were bleeding from varices , haemostatic treatment was not uniform and only a minority were treated with sclerotherapy . |
| 38 | This broad classification of EEG activity into ongoing and event-related is purely arbitrary since , as Hillyard and Woods ( 1979 ) point out , even ongoing EEG activity might be considered event-related if only the event concerned could be specified . |
| 39 | The shift in winds as the international economy moved from the extravagant eighties to the uncharted nineties has been evident for sometime but only the master helmsman could have kept afloat until now . |
| 40 | The driver could n't find him at first as only the top of his helmet was visible . |
| 41 | There was certainly no repeat of the violent confrontations which marred the last Springboks ' tour in 1970 as only a group of about 70 chanting protesters stood outside the ground . |
| 42 | Modern harbourside developments are increasingly popular.At Admiral 's Quay in Falmouth , part of the old waterfront , six flats and four houses in Phase I are new and only a minute 's walk from the town . |
| 43 | it was a great winner … his sixth of the season … and it just about booked Swindon a place in the promotion-play offs … with only four games to go it 's asking too much to make the top two but only a disaster can keep them out of the play-offs … |
| 44 | And then , when I put the phone down again , it resumes its full natural flow , inside my head instead of outside , as perfectly articulate and well-modulated as only a voice inside one 's head has a chance to be . |
| 45 | Again he saw the thing divide and grow and change , like the ever-evolving pattern in a kaleidoscope , but this thing was real , alive as alive as only a thing whose sole purpose was to kill could be . |
| 46 | She had just stood there , scarcely able to breathe , and aware that only a hair 's breadth of control separated her from a fury that would shake her to her soul . |
| 47 | More than a decade after the introduction of legislation against sex or race discrimination , it remains true that only a minority of senior business executives are women or members of racial minority groups . |