Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain spoiled the opening day of Durham 's first match as a first-class county to the extent that play was possible for only the morning session , which allowed Paul Parker and John Glendenen to put on 119 in an untroubled manner off 34 overs . |
| 2 | As with all water fowl the female is less flamboyant than its partner and the duck is sooty brown with only a hint of a crest . |
| 3 | Standing on the south bank and looking across the river at the village , one can see that it is still well-wooded with only the church spire and a small number of houses visible through the trees . |
| 4 | Not this one ; it rides easy with only a trace of load-carrying compromise . |
| 5 | Steve Richardson also moved up with a 70 in the company of Jack Nicklaus , who beat him by a shot , the difference being at the 18th , which Richardson three-putted despite only a wedge for his second shot . |
| 6 | She can not hear that much of his business life is tedious , worrying , tiring and not all that exciting ; he can not hear and see her boredom and exhaustion in his fantasy that she is the one who has everything — not having to earn , not having to stir out each morning and so comfortable with only a baby to look after . |
| 7 | More people had attended the early services , but the day seemed as quiet and peaceful as usual with only the sound of church bells and the occasional ship 's hooter breaking the silence . |
| 8 | The third vulnerable group of the population are the very elderly with only a state pension . |
| 9 | Sound-insulating quilt is laid above the new ceiling , and though a good space between the new and old ceiling is ideal , in houses with low ceilings , the method can be quite effective with only a gap of an inch or two . |
| 10 | He protested that the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , had been present at only the start of the debate . |
| 11 | People surged forward and back ; the Man realized he was needed and turned to go out of Woil 's cage , probably thinking that if he left the door ajar for only a moment Woil was too placid and safe a bird to try to escape . |
| 12 | In all of the forested areas sampled by Eyre , commercial lumber production was responsible for only a proportion of the deforestation . |
| 13 | It also meant that in 1213 , and again in 1215–17 , the French king was able to take the war to England , a thing unheard of only a generation earlier . |
| 14 | Quiss had been lonely with only the castle 's shy and dwarfish attendants for company , and Ajayi was pleased to find somebody who already knew their way round the cold , forbidding stump of rock , iron , glass , slate and paper which was the castle . |
| 15 | Now , my students find themselves coping with the intricacies of the Negotiator/ Interpreter oral assessments of an examination syllabus with which they are not familiar after only a fortnight into the course . |
| 16 | This situation only arises when the motor is stationary ; if the motor is moving the phases are excited in sequence and any one winding is excited for only a fraction of the cycle . |
| 17 | Given the fullness of most fields by the end of the first main phase of the PCAS cycle , the continuing applications procedure and late applications are relevant for only a minority of subjects , sometimes including new fields which suffer from uncertainty as their approval is pending . |
| 18 | Sadly Cork shot wide with only the keeper to beat . |
| 19 | David Robinson headed over from a corner after three minutes , Mark Prudhoe booted away a close range effort from Bobby Barnes after 22 minutes , while Ken Charlery lobbed wide with only the keeper to beat after 35 minutes . |
| 20 | We started off brightly with Deane , Dorigo and Macca going close with only the wood work or inspirational saves preventing a goal . |
| 21 | The village was quiet with only a couple of old men sitting on a bench outside the church as we drove through the gates of the big house and along the road through the village , passing the Chateau where the Commando dead had been placed on the front lawn shortly after we had entered the village , and during the bitter fighting of the first ten days . |
| 22 | Our ears are sensitive to only a fraction of these sounds . |