Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rigid plans that only work if they are adhered to at every step rarely provide the means for getting back on target once a significant deviation has occurred . |
| 2 | I also put in some choices that only SF readers were likely to recognise : Hugo Gernsback ( an early pulp-publisher ) , Clifford Simak ( a prolific SF writer ) , and Stanislaw Lem ( the foremost Polish SF author ) . |
| 3 | To my mind there will be some restriction but only time will tell . |
| 4 | A concordat of a sort had to be arranged with him , and this was done with mutual protestations that only misunderstanding had impaired goodwill . |
| 5 | We need the complete transformation of our inner selves that only God can achieve . |
| 6 | Giardia lamblia was identified in the mucosa in one patient but only Cryptosporidium was seen in the other patients . |
| 7 | Lists of names of authors should not be differentiated according to gender , by using first names for female writers but only family names for male writers ( as in " Shakespeare , Milton , Jane Austen , Hardy " ) . |