Example sentences of "[prep] [det] only [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 After that only a matter of confidence .
2 It seems reasonable that they should share the cost of what is after all only a system of humane debt collection acting on their behalves .
3 I return again to the point that I made originally — why is it that this vulnerable , waif-like , often frighteningly naive girl who always speaks her mind — but is after all only a pop singer — is taken seriously at all ?
4 Less than half of those who left the commune proceeded to consolidate their strips of land , and of these only a quarter actually moved their homesteads out of the village .
5 Of these only the CLC ( Cheshire Lines Extension Railway ) and LYR Derby Road sheds survived as working depots into the 20th Century , although until the 1980's , the WLR shed existed as a workshop by the Windsor Road/Hampton Road footbridge .
6 Above all only the eyes retain any spark of life , and they are filled with the overwhelming emotion of anguish .
7 The next Council , that of Vienne , south of Lyons , took place from October 1311 to May the following year , and was unusual in that only a selection — though a geographically fairly wide selection — of bishops were invited .
8 Very often , too , when we were travelling round the farms doing repairs ( and many of these were done just before harvest to prevent hold-ups at a busy time ) the Guv'nor would tell us to leave two shillings at a certain farm , half a crown perhaps at another , and at some only a shilling : that would go towards the men 's largesse-spending . ’
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