Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Act is perhaps not so clear where only the claimant with a possessory title is before the court , for example , because the true owner does not appear or can not be found . |
| 2 | Mr Al-Haroun , when confronted , was as gently apologetic as only a well-bred Arab can be when confronted by an angry occidental . |
| 3 | Of the two types of bend tests the four-point is the more reliable since only a pure bending moment is applied to the centre section of the beam and the relation becomes exact , for small curvature , since the deformation is truly into a circular arc . |
| 4 | Again he saw the thing divide and grow and change , like the ever-evolving pattern in a kaleidoscope , but this thing was real , alive as alive as only a thing whose sole purpose was to kill could be . |
| 5 | It was as simple as only a barefaced lie could be . |
| 6 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 7 | According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’ |
| 8 | The fire which had started early that morning must have been very fierce as only the walls were left standing and from the ruins there was that horrible fire-damp smell which pervades the site for weeks after such an occurrence . |