Example sentences of "[coord] only [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must be careful with this argument because it is sometimes based on anatomical studies that have used insensitive methods or only a partial consideration of the data . |
| 2 | This may be because no solution , or only a temporary solution has been found , or because the desired solution has not yet been implemented . |
| 3 | Whether this perspective represents wisdom or only a curious anachronism today , it commands the scrutiny of a post-war generation in the West brought up to respect the limits of military power more than its utility . |
| 4 | Land which in 1947 had little development value , and therefore no claim or only a small claim on the fund , may at some future date acquire considerable development value . |
| 5 | Reintroduced foods should be fed in the morning , and again in the afternoon , if there was no reaction , or only a slight reaction , to the first feeding . |
| 6 | Sometimes perpetual debt is issued which carries interest at a relatively high rate for a number of years ( ‘ the primary period' ) , and then bears no further interest , or only a nominal amount . |
| 7 | But she did n't respond — at least she did n't do that ! — or only a little bit , only the very smallest bit , because it was so very sweet , so very exciting , so very much what she had always hoped a kiss might be , and if he believed it was what she wanted , why not let him think so ? |
| 8 | Whether there was a direct organisation link between the Party and the unions ( Denmark , Norway and Sweden ) or only an informal relation ( Germany and Austria ) was only of secondary importance . |
| 9 | The St Petersburg mayor , Anatoly Sobchak , made an individual request for food aid from the EC on Sept. 16 , and Ivan Silayev , chair of the Interim Economic Council , had asked for between ECU5,000 million and 6,000 million in aid from the EC on Sept. 9 , although it was unclear whether this was on behalf of all the republics or only the Russian Federation . |
| 10 | To signifies this relation of subsequence in virtue of its potential meaning of a movement from one point in time to another and has been seen to give rise to two clearly identifiable actual meanings according to whether the speaker conceives the whole movement which to is capable of signifying or only the initial part thereof . |
| 11 | There is little tundra in the southern hemisphere ( where there is very little land at appropriate latitudes ) and only a narrow strip in Europe , which is warmed by the Gulf Stream ; but there are vast tracts in the north of Canada and Alaska , and the northern shore of Asia . |
| 12 | All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again . |
| 13 | Yet by the end of 1690 most prominent laymen and clergy had come to take the oaths to the new regime , and only a tiny minority persisted as Jacobites or Nonjurors . |
| 14 | Transfers from elsewhere within the UK amounted to 18 per cent and only a tiny proportion had come from abroad . |
| 15 | Chapman , 23 , of Norwood Road , Herne Hill , south London , was fined £80 and ordered to pay £50 costs by magistrates at Streatham , south London , for leaving Ziggy for six days without water and only a tiny piece of cheese to eat . |
| 16 | But it does mean that the job is immensely diverse , with a lot of administration and only a small element of number crunching , which he seeks out as an extra because he likes doing it . |
| 17 | For example , studies have shown that 90 per cent of boys in the Inner London area admit to having travelled on public transport without a ticket , or to deliberately under-paying ; 82 per cent admit breaking windows of empty houses ; and only a small percentage claim to have committed no offences . |
| 18 | Each on its own seemed admirable and only a small addition to the government 's total expenditure . |
| 19 | The rapid rate of mechanization from the 1960s was particularly important in releasing male labour , and only a small proportion of farmers ' sons now expect to follow their fathers on the land . |
| 20 | In art history a large part of electronic data processing takes the form of cataloguing works of art , and only a small proportion of research concerns pattern recognition or digitization of images ; in musicology it has only recently become possible to study scores directly input to the computer without the mediation of alphanumeric code . |
| 21 | Few doctors would be needed at night by the family health services authority , and only a small proportion ( less than 1% ) of all patients ' contacts with general practitioners would be affected . |
| 22 | A Department of the Environment report on eleven such schemes found that there was often little or no consultation with tenants over the future of their homes and only a small proportion of the purchasers were local authority tenants or people on the council waiting list . |
| 23 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 24 | The clock had been removed for repairs and only a small hook remained in the wall . |
| 25 | The radical right mainly drifted back towards the Conservative party and only a small minority associated with the emerging fascist movement . |
| 26 | Since the whole edition was of only one thousand copies and only a small number had been circulated when the suppression was ordered , this is obviously a rare book and one that is likely to be costly unless the seller is ignorant of its history . |
| 27 | Liverpool have confirmed that The Kop is completely sold out , and only a small number of stand tickets remain . |
| 28 | In the last decade at Cardinal Newman School , and I am sure any comprehensive school head could give a similar figure , we must have had six or seven very talented youngsters who got grade As/Bs at ‘ A ’ level have tried to get into medicine and only a small number have got in . |
| 29 | Michael pointed out how he had a long curve along the top of the board 's edge , and only a small curve at the bottom . |
| 30 | We had no money , and only a small farm . |