Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] only [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Mary Vetsera has only one wish , to be possessed by him , and is prepared to go to any lengths to achieve that end . |
| 2 | Tuesday has only one performance — at 2.00pm — but from Wednesday until Saturday there are two shows a day , at 10.30am and 2.00pm . |
| 3 | Interestingly in that duet Parrott has only one countertenor-Timothy Wilson again-with the second part taken by a high tenor , John Mark Ainsley . |
| 4 | Kerala has only 20 MPs , 17 of them Congress . |
| 5 | Suppose I say : ( 24 ) Nigel has fourteen children I shall implicate that Nigel has only fourteen children , although it would be compatible with the truth of ( 24 ) that Nigel in fact has twenty children . |
| 6 | The effect of the maxim is to add to most utterances a pragmatic inference to the effect that the statement presented is the strongest , or most informative , that can be made in the situation ; in many cases the implicatures can be glossed by adding only to the propositional content of the sentence , e.g. " Nigel has only fourteen children " , " the flag is only white " , " Harry only got a fine " . |
| 7 | In contrast , the Louvre owns only one painting , the striking male portrait known as ‘ Il Condottiere ’ . |
| 8 | To which one of the students replied , " Yes , but the Shah has only one daughter . " ) |
| 9 | As might be expected , the recent film by prolific one-man Finnish film industry Aki Kaurismaki bears only slight resemblance to the story with a similar name by Hans Christian Andersen . |
| 10 | But as the law stands , Jamie Blandford knows only high treason could stop him inheriting his father 's title … and the Blenheim estate . |
| 11 | The UK has only 6,200 hectares of undamaged peat bogs , 38 per cent less than official guidelines suggest is the minimum needed for effective conservation . |
| 12 | At present Africa contains only one station that can receive signals directly from the US 's Landsat remote-sensing craft . |
| 13 | And she claims the Fieldcourt School in Quedgeley has only one teacher trained to help the visually handicapped . |
| 14 | With demand for the Diamante and the Starion GTO/Dodge Stealth so high — they share platforms and mechanicals — the UK gets only one version , but it comes loaded with goodies . |
| 15 | Well , I had the whole of north Scotland from the Orkneys to Moray , and Siward has only those bits of Northumbria that Ligulf and the rest have n't written their crosses on . |
| 16 | Heseltine announces only ten pits to close |
| 17 | Adolf means only one person to you . |
| 18 | The formation of Free Colombia comes only 15 days after that of another anti-Escobar group , Pepes ( People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar ) , which has vowed to kill the drug baron and his family . |
| 19 | Britain has only 3,000 bottle banks , that is one for every 17,000 people , compared to Holland , for example , which has one per 1,400 people . |
| 20 | The smallest constituency in Britain has only 23,500 electors , the largest more than 100,000 . |
| 21 | Food from Britain has only six representatives trying to sell British food in Spain , whereas Food from France — its French equivalent — has 60 representatives trying to sell French food in Spain . |
| 22 | Currently Italy has only 3,800 MW of coal-fired power plant under construction but authorisation of a 2,560 MW coal plant at Gioia Tauro in Calabria is an indication of improved prospects while the virtual standstill of the nuclear programme could also encourage further coal-fired power generation developments . |
| 23 | QT Notes only 1.1.86 £2.00 |
| 24 | However , the objective row of P3/T4 has only positive entries ( apart from the objective function value ) and thus a unique optimal solution . |
| 25 | ‘ It worries me greatly that Darlington has only one ambulance after 7pm at night . ’ |
| 26 | Total rainfall is low — Belgrade has only 609 mm ( 24 in ) — and the wettest period is March-June . |
| 27 | Surprisingly , Sir Alec has only five words of dialogue in the entire 90-minute film , though he appears in almost every scene . |
| 28 | Saatchi has made no secret of his admiration for the work of the German painter Sigmar Polke , yet he has sold at least 17 works by the artist in his collection , including what many regard as Polke 's finest work , Paganini ; according to three separate sources of information , Saatchi has only one Polke left in his collection . |
| 29 | ‘ During the transition that is now beginning I urge America 's friends and foes alike to recognise , as I do , that America has only one president at a time , and that American foreign policy remains solely in his hands , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Kirk says only one set of definitions is required to describe objects that are managed in a system , whether they be a system accounting mechanism , a device driver , a processor , a file system or a user . |