Example sentences of "[vb past] only in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They arose only in the short uneasy period passed between land and water . |
| 2 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 3 | Tamo ash is apparently a very rare , highly figured wood found only in a small region of Japan . |
| 4 | His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside . |
| 5 | Until recently , little was known about the tiny and endearing Hector 's dolphin , found only in the coastal waters of New Zealand . |
| 6 | Almost identical in size and looks to this prosimian ancestor of ours is the extraordinary tarsier , a primate just six inches tall , found only in the high jungle canopy of Indonesia and the Philippines . |
| 7 | Olimpia 's ground beetle , a green- and gold-coloured species found only in the Italian Alps , is facing extinction . |
| 8 | AGAIN related to a case reported only in the Daily Mail . |
| 9 | If we are of a lazier disposition , the solution is simple and usually quite acceptable : if the same note will occur in two or more parts it can be omitted where it is least necessary and retained only in the principal part ( thus in Example 140 we would keep the E♭ only in the upper voice , to retain the melodic shape ) . |
| 10 | After 1772 the " turnpike mania " settled down in a long steady progress to an eventual 22,000-mile peak in 1836 , accelerated only in the widespread speculative investment booms of the early 1790s , 1809 – 12 and the mid 1820s . |
| 11 | Silence came only in the deep watches of the night . |
| 12 | The syllables heard at the two ears differed only in the initial consonant or only in the middle vowel . |
| 13 | For all his systematic innovative accomplishments , Edison worked only in the electrical field . |
| 14 | Some died out or moved away , others survived only in the female line and the lands passed to another family by marriage ( 81 , pp.43–7 ; 83 , p.31 ) . |
| 15 | For Eliot , who chose the other way , earned entry into nothing more seriously influential than the circles of Bloomsbury , where the Edwardian pattern survived only in an attenuated and largely illusory version . ) |
| 16 | This survived only in an underground way in folk song , nursery rhymes , children 's counting verses , and so on . |
| 17 | By Luke 's own admission he saw her as shallow , someone interested only in a good time and a string of boyfriends . |
| 18 | There should be a few outstanding British artists in both sections , even if it means a kind of devaluation of those British artists represented only in the national collections . |
| 19 | Although PLO chairman Yassir Arafat had made strenuous efforts to ensure a consensus within the organization in advance of the PNC meeting , neither Hamas nor the Damascus-based Palestine National Salvation Front ( PNSF ) and its affiliated organizations attended the Algiers session , while representatives of Islamic Jihad attended only in an independent capacity . |
| 20 | An example of ( iii ) is the French Nabis , who met regularly but otherwise collaborated only in a private gallery exhibition . |
| 21 | Although we had only a very limited range of local newspapers , half ( 69 ) of the 138 cases which appeared in only one newspaper appeared only in the local newspapers . |
| 22 | This function they performed only in a limited and highly conservative way ; but there was hardly any other institution in France which could perform it at all . |
| 23 | If ink was then rolled on and the plate washed , the ink remained only in the tiny ‘ bitten ’ spaces , giving the finely granulated appearance of the finished aquatint already referred to . |