Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , there is a group of institutions where only a minority of students are on advanced courses . |
| 2 | In houses where only the ground floor is centrally heated , the patient may not feel comfortable in the upstairs area , so if this is where he is to be , for other practical reasons , he will need heaters in his room , or the central heating system should be extended . |
| 3 | Sometimes forks would appear on the right and knives on the left ‘ sometimes ( Henry always felt this was Maisie 's way of telling people they were not welcome ) two knives or only a spoon . |
| 4 | No one at the banquet could possibly have crossed the Firth of Forth in such weather with such speed and he knew from his own spies that only the King had crossed the Forth that night . |
| 5 | The yew contains a mixture of poisonous compounds and only a chemist can extract anything good from it so people should n't eat or drink anything connected with the Yew tree . |
| 6 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 7 | It was hard for the active trade unionist of the day to believe that W.P.Lind could combine the secretaryship of the London Seamen 's Protection Society with his role as Superintendent Registrar for the Port of London or that his organisation , with large numbers of members on its books but only a handful paying contributions , was not actually in the hands of the shipping interests . |
| 8 | It probably fooled the listeners as only the presenter knew I was actually in the studio . |
| 9 | We 'll train you how not to ‘ blow it ’ on an important shot , lose an important lead , make the same mistake time and time again and other skills that only the pro 's could afford to know . |
| 10 | I prefer patterns that do n't produce large areas where only the cotton thread has knitted , so I tend to choose patterns that only have one or two punched holes ( or marked squares on electronic patterns ) counting horizontally . |
| 11 | It contains a sensible stimulus , a great deal more federal spending , an energy tax , a guarantee of higher income tax for people and companies and only a promise of future spending cuts . |
| 12 | Any of these could be used as rollers but only the circle has a constant centre , permitting a hub . |
| 13 | On average , both sexes achieve 80% of the employment rate in the general population over 16 years , with no reduction in working hours and only a minority reporting prolonged sick leave . |
| 14 | The latter belief explicitly rejects consistency as a virtue in its own right , while the former demands a balancing of public interests against those of the particular defendant in the light of moral judgements that only the magistrate is qualified to make . |
| 15 | Rock is n't the art form of the chattering classes and only a minority of its practitioners have any expertise in elucidating a rigorous conceptual rationale for their work . |
| 16 | Indeed , competition may be so fierce that pricing is based on a Contribution basis , that is , covering variable costs and only a proportion of the business ' fixed costs . |
| 17 | There is predation by peccaries and rodents , which eat seeds ( most of the others eating the pericarp and leaving the seeds under the trees ) : occasionally primates , coatis , kinkajous and so on disperse seeds but only the bat , Artibeus lituratus , the agouti and the squirrel Sciurus granatensis disperse large numbers , the last two being seed predators most of the time , but sometimes dropping or scatter hoarding seeds . |
| 18 | At the end of the debate on the document , the Institute 's Council did not endorse the proposals but only the publication of the report for consultation purposes . |
| 19 | However , in families where only the father had achieved literacy , child mortality is lower than in others where neither parent had done so . |
| 20 | The final phase of your initial training takes you back to HMS Raleigh where you will learn things that only the Navy can teach you , such as field cookery in areas of natural disaster and practical experience of bulk cookery in our large galleys . |
| 21 | Taken to extremes , a Bonsai pine , cherry or plum can embrace many more elements than a mere dwarfed tree might at first suggest to the Westerner : antiquity , continuity ( the best examples have been cared for by successive generations ) , and symbolic qualities that only a study of Zen can fully bring home . |
| 22 | With no editors and only a handful of high-profile journalists opposing the conflict , and with the majority of newspapers baying for Iraqi blood , Fleet Street could hardly be more acquiescent . |
| 23 | But she ca n't bless the communion wine and wafers because only a priest can do that and at present women ca n't be ordained as priests . |
| 24 | When we consider the nature of many items that only the state uses ( or hopefully does not use ! ) |
| 25 | Notes There are several flights of stairs and only the auditorium is wheelchair accessible . |
| 26 | Mixed arable and dairy farms and vegetable farms are the easiest to convert to organic : the huge arable farms of East Anglia are more difficult because of intense production systems , as are chicken and pig farms where only a minimum of land is owned and would not be large enough to accommodate free range farming . |
| 27 | A prestigious opera house featuring foreign-language operas and ballets ; international stars demanding colossal fees ; exorbitant prices that only an élite could afford ; a beleaguered manager embroiled in public debate … |
| 28 | After all Koresh 's apocalyptic vision , his talk of the seven seals that only the lamb of God can unlock , sounded like refinements of what they already believed . |
| 29 | The connections are sealed joints and only the Electricity Board may make these joints and provide the two service wires to each house , where they terminate in a sealed , fused container . |
| 30 | The whole thing is , ideally , completely invisible to the users and only the network supervisor software can modify the various priority levels . |