Example sentences of "[vb pp] only the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then , Benedict , you have heard only the scandalous tale . |
| 2 | Numbers were small ; but a final case study approach revealed that for people who lived alone , had no informal carer who could manage all necessary care ; and had a high level of cognitive impairment , the Home Support Project was likely to prolong home care beyond that of those who had received only the usual services . |
| 3 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 4 | A good deal of language teaching has followed a bottom-up approach , in that it has considered only the formal language system , often in isolated sentences , without demonstrating or developing the way that system operates in context . |
| 5 | The England hooker , who has already said that he would have accepted only the usual expenses had he undertaken this summer 's tour of the Republic marking the South African Rugby Board 's centenary , has now been quoted as saying that ‘ remuneration was mentioned . ’ |
| 6 | Men fear rejection , disdain and loneliness only because they have never experienced them or if they have experienced them , they have felt only the normal reactions of despair and unhappiness . |
| 7 | Russell has also made only the single appearance in the green jersey — against England at Twickenham in 1990 . |
| 8 | The name Champagne comes from the Latin campagna , signifying open , unforested land : an ambiguous origin for those who have seen only the hilly vineyards of Champagne surmounted by forest . |
| 9 | He was fortunate to be shown only the yellow card . |
| 10 | She had used only the top room of the mill which she had furnished simply with a small writing table and chair facing the North Sea , a telephone and her binoculars . |
| 11 | If she 'd had only the clerical level of interface that she was supposed to have , she 'd never have found it . |
| 12 | Before the accidental drowning of her husband four years earlier , she and Martin had needed only the occasional companionship of friendly acquaintances to affirm their self-sufficiency . |
| 13 | She has been offered only the statutory minimum of £4,715 in redundancy pay . |
| 14 | The assumption that the rate of technical advance is exogenous has meant that tax policy affected only the steady-state levels of the capital-labour ratio , wages , etc . |
| 15 | Some , who have experienced only the old-style rote learning of facts and dates , may well believe that the subject is already educationally bankrupt and will take a great deal of persuading that history is not only educationally solvent and viable but is vital to the balance and well-being of the curricular economy of the 1990s . |
| 16 | Having recovered only the partial use of one hand , he set to work and wrote Beneath the Visiting Moon . |
| 17 | The earlier Moghuls had ruled only the northern half or two-thirds of the sub-continent but Aurangzeb , who ruled from 1658 to 1707 , set out to conquer the south and was almost completely successful in this . |
| 18 | I 've printed only the successful child of each generation ( i.e. the parent of the next generation ) and one or two of its unsuccessful sisters . |
| 19 | Rate of charge on capital distribution Where the property was held on discretionary trust before 26th March , capital distributions of the settled property to individuals who became beneficially entitled to it will be charged only the following fractions of the tax that would otherwise be charged on capital distributions of the settled property : These reliefs will also apply where an interest in possession comes into existence in property previously held on discretionary trust . |
| 20 | But Mr Garrett said others who have taken only the three-hour assessment are responding to pursuits despite force guidelines prohibiting them . |
| 21 | A woman was murdered only the other day , down by the canal . ’ |
| 22 | Once the winding current is established only the low-voltage supply is effective and this may be insufficient to overcome the motional voltage during the remainder of the excitation interval . |
| 23 | We have outlined only the bare bones of the B & B method . |