Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [conj] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some left after only a fortnight and , as time went by , it became increasingly hard to maintain the blockade . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | Outside , the cicadas buzzed metallically , the sea was dark blue and only the steady hum of the air-conditioning broke the silence . |
| 4 | Those that did disbanded in the late 1940s or early 1950s and only the schools continued to have Scout troops ; the 8th Exeter ( Royal Deaf School ) troop was , for example , formed in 1949 and from this troop came a Queen 's Scout , Andrew Ford , who attended the St. George 's Day Parade at Windsor Castle in 1955 before the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |