Example sentences of "[vb pp] only the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then , Benedict , you have heard only the scandalous tale . |
| 2 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Russell has also made only the single appearance in the green jersey — against England at Twickenham in 1990 . |
| 5 | He was fortunate to be shown only the yellow card . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If she 'd had only the clerical level of interface that she was supposed to have , she 'd never have found it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She has been offered only the statutory minimum of £4,715 in redundancy pay . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Having recovered only the partial use of one hand , he set to work and wrote Beneath the Visiting Moon . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But Mr Garrett said others who have taken only the three-hour assessment are responding to pursuits despite force guidelines prohibiting them . |
| 15 | A woman was murdered only the other day , down by the canal . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |