Example sentences of "[adv] only [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a swings and roundabouts situation which perhaps only a locking nut cures completely , but again cost enters the picture , as indeed does personal preference . |
| 2 | Obviously only a small portion of these neutrinos will come in the Earth 's direction , but still we ought to be in the path of about 80 billion billion billion neutrinos per second . |
| 3 | Despite the apparent decisiveness of Adenauer 's foreign policy , therefore , some have argued that there lay a fundamental ambivalence at the bottom of it , symbolised by the choice of his home town , Bonn , as the new capital : it represented Western orientation all right but , at the same time , it was very obviously only a provisional arrangement . |
| 4 | This discreteness is due to the need to fit a whole number of half wavelengths along the length of the string , for which there is obviously only an enumerable number of possibilities . |
| 5 | That is , we were together only a short time , and … ’ |
| 6 | This account of how aircraft accident investigations are conducted , or should be conducted , in the field is necessarily only a brief outline of what can take place and does not include much of the work that goes on when the wreckage is examined in detail in a hangar , or in the case of AIB at their substantial facility at Farnborough . |
| 7 | The cranes were unable to move around the yard with the lifeboats , so only a small part of the depot area could be used for this work . |
| 8 | Experiments using lasers give very accurate results ; they are also extremely sensitive , so only a small number of atoms are required . |
| 9 | The grass continues to grow almost all year , so only a little winter fodder is needed . |
| 10 | Details of this algorithm are described fully in Chapter Three , so only a brief outline is given here : |
| 11 | The gallery windows faced east and west , so only a pale token of early afternoon sun fell onto the statuette , which glowed duskily . |
| 12 | He looked round them all as though none of them afforded him any surprise , though two of them did not belong here , and to his certain knowledge had been elsewhere only a short time ago . |
| 13 | But the problem is that this requires a teacher of genius ; and that a pupil has anyway only a brief time to get through work which has taken the lifetimes of many eminent predecessors : there must always be something artificial about heurism . |
| 14 | Even so , expenditure per student , admittedly only a rough guide , fell from £81 per student in 1890 to £38 in 1901 ; it was not unusual for the college to spend more on the gardens than on buying books . |
| 15 | The obligation to make or take delivery can be avoided by an offsetting purchase or sale before the settlement date , and normally only a small proportion of all contracts are settled by delivery . |
| 16 | What makes the sex distribution of these cats so odd is that normally only a female kitten can display black patches inherited from one parent and red tabby patches inherited from the other . |
| 17 | Thus only a tiny fraction of passengers ( 0.7I per cent ) travelled in the luxurious first class . |
| 18 | From master to master-race was thus only a short step . |
| 19 | Consequently the knights of Surrey obtained , for a fine of 200 marks , the disafforestment of all their county from the river Wey eastward to the Kent boundary , and from the Guildford road southward ‘ as far as Surrey extends ’ ; thus only the north-western corner of the county remained within the royal forest of Windsor . |
| 20 | Generally only a statutory assignment gives the purchaser a direct right . |
| 21 | This amounts to a death wish as it is generally only the evangelical wing of the church that is growing . |
| 22 | Soon only a small fraction of his original flock is running around his feet . |
| 23 | In the first three rounds a two-thirds majority was required , and thereafter only a simple majority . |
| 24 | In both regions petty landowners were fairly common , though still only a tiny minority . |
| 25 | These were very early days in Tanganyika 's modern development , and still only a tiny handful of Africans could read . |
| 26 | The problem remained , however , that they were still only a tiny remnant of the original unit , which severely limited their ability to carry out large-scale operations . |
| 27 | For the trigram case it is still only a small percentage of the possible transitions that do occur , and 40% of those transitions only occur once . |
| 28 | However , the president of the labour office , Mr Egon Franke , said this week that unemployment among refugees — which has risen sharply in October — was still only a temporary phenomenon . |
| 29 | The ubiquity of Unix means they run on a wide range of platforms , but there is still only a minimal amount of interoperability between them . |
| 30 | The ubiquity of Unix means they run on a wide range of systems , but there is still only a minimal amount of interoperability between them . |