Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Act is perhaps not so clear where only the claimant with a possessory title is before the court , for example , because the true owner does not appear or can not be found . |
| 2 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |
| 3 | After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital . |
| 4 | From the behavioural point of view , the principal male characteristic is sadistic sexual egoism , since is it clear that only the male who is capable of driving off his rivals can hold on to the females of the breeding group . |
| 5 | This is the only company whose entire membership appears to have figured in the loan ; in the case of such as the Goldsmiths and the Ironmongers it seems clear that only the livery was assessed . |
| 6 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 7 | President Bush had stated on Aug. 2 that only a health problem — which he stressed did not currently exist — would deter him from seeking re-election for a second term . |
| 8 | But Gallagher does not decide this and only a House of Lords judgment on the point can resolve the uncertainty . |
| 9 | It is already residential and only the degree of care would change . |
| 10 | It is already residential and only the degree of care would change . |
| 11 | Known as ‘ Fizzer ’ to his colleagues and our fans , Phil played in every game of Palace 's promotion season of 1988–89 and only an injury , sustained on his 1st Division debut at Queens Park Rangers , prevented him from completing full appearances in 1989–90 , although he was an ever-present member of the team that reached the 1990 FA Cup Final and so nearly seized the famous trophy . |
| 12 | This is acceptable when only the family are around , but when we have guests , embarrassing situations can arise . |
| 13 | depending on whether we take the " " mayden " " as a vocative ( i.e. " girl , I love no one more than thee " ) or as the object of the lost verb of line 14 , whereby the -clause becomes a restrictive relative clause ( " I love no maiden more than you … " [ but I might love some just as much or only a bit less ] ) . |
| 14 | He said this knowing that the architects were designing for a larger site quite unaware that only a portion had been authorized . |
| 15 | Moreover , the volume of literature in these other areas is such that only an outline can be presented here . |
| 16 | It has been argued , for example , that laterality should be measured only on a nominal scale ( Colbourn , 1978 ) such that only the direction and not the magnitude of any laterality effect is taken into account . |
| 17 | Nor , for example , will it follow without being made explicit that only the majority whose decision is sufficient to exercise the power need be the signatories to any expulsion notice or that more than one partner can be expelled at the same time by the same notice . |
| 18 | The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known . |
| 19 | It is false that only a person in authority is an authority . |
| 20 | The vicar is now so unpopular that only a handful of people still attend St Mary 's Church . |
| 21 | The pupil is very large and only a portion of the iris is present , so the eye appears dark in colour . |
| 22 | Some left after only a fortnight and , as time went by , it became increasingly hard to maintain the blockade . |
| 23 | It is unlikely that any of the missing diamonds had been picked up by persons involved in the rescue or who visited the site later as only an expert would have been able to identify them as precious stones . |
| 24 | Inch loss from others varied according to their size but those with a 34–36 inch bust measurement either lost nothing at all or only an inch or an inch and a half . |
| 25 | We have to be absolutely sure that only the pollen we want reaches the stigma . |
| 26 | But her beautiful mask had just slipped , and underneath were fear and insecurity so deep that only a professional would be able to uproot them . |
| 27 | If the system has been written in a modular way ( i.e. the individual components of a system are intelligently partitioned , allowing each module to see all and only the input it requires ) then the modification is greatly simplified . |
| 28 | The buildings of the monastery were demolished in 1897 and only the porch remains of Dientzenhofer 's work . |
| 29 | Smaller stones about four to six inches long and only an inch wide which have broken ends could easily have been used to knock limpets off rocks . |
| 30 | I shared a compartment with a tanned young man , blond as only a Swede can be , in wire-rimmed glasses and a pony-tail , who was returning to Göteborg from Algeciras , where he had been visiting a girlfriend , as he put it . |