Example sentences of "[to-vb] only the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the South is redefined to include only the four regions of the South East , South West , East Anglia and the East Midlands , then the net movement of people from North to South can be seen to have risen from a low point of only around 10,000–20,000 a year in the early 1970s to a peak of nearly 70,000 by 1985–86 ( Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 2 | Footballers and boxers , too , often have their entry into the sports world aided by zealous school teachers , though , overwhelmingly , they choose to see only the formative years up to , say , the age of 13 as affected by teachers . |
| 3 | I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron . |
| 4 | Three of these subclones ( R342A4-B14 , R342A4-B15 , and R342A4-C3 ) were found to contain only the short arm of chromosome 10 , as shown by chromosome painting ( Figure 4a , b ) of normal human metaphase spreads with DNA fragments derived from the hybrids by Alu-PCR ( 19 ) . |
| 5 | The displacements are found by selecting a plan view of PARTA and zooming in to observe only the full rotation of the cam centre about the axis of the shaft . |
| 6 | Considering that those infants who were born to 20–24 years old mothers had , recently , the best survival chances in Hungary , and that the husbands , on the average , were three or four years older than the mothers , the association of paternal age with infant mortality is not surprising , and may even be though to reflect only the maternal age effect . |
| 7 | Bamert , of course , is known as something of a champion of 20th century music in any case , arguing that if we choose to play only the great works of an increasingly distant past , then we ‘ turn the concert hall into a museum , and ignore the fact that music is a living tradition ’ . |
| 8 | It is my intention to trace only the English language sources for the creation of Hercule Poirot . |
| 9 | This may have been a late flowering of the ‘ badinage ’ that he used to partake in as a Young Conservative with Brixton locals , but so sensitive is Major about his background , that the public is permitted to hear only the Authorised Version . |
| 10 | However , DHAs could suffer the secondary effects of such selection if GP budget-holders choose to select only the lower risks leaving the DHA with the higher-cost patients within any category . |
| 11 | On the spectrum of improbabilities , the spotlight turns out to illuminate only the narrow range from the left-hand end ( certainty ) up to minor miracles , like a hole-in-one or a dream that comes true . |
| 12 | Hard cheeses are more fatty , the whey having been pressed out of the cheese to leave only the fatty curds . |
| 13 | In the mid-1880s , Mr Lawson Tait , who as police surgeon in Birmingham during the 1890s exhibited a profoundly misogynist attitude in his treatment of rape victims , commented that ‘ to leave only the inferior women to perpetuate the species will do more to deteriorate the human race than all the individual victories at Girton will do to benefit it ’ . |
| 14 | The enabling statute always , explicitly or implicitly , states , if X 1 , X 2 , X 3 exist you may or shall do Y. Yet , if X 1 , X 2 , and X 3 , and all the elements constituting them , were always held to be jurisdictional in a legal sense , the dividing line between review and appeal would be emasculated : the tribunal would have power to give only the right answer , this meaning the answer which accords with the view of the reviewing court . |
| 15 | There is room here to give only the briefest account of the different kinds of vertebrates . |
| 16 | Oh , you might be careful to plumb that machine in correctly , to use only the right powder in the right quantity , never to overload it and to have it serviced regularly . |
| 17 | A refinement is to transplant only the so-called beta cells of the Islets of Langerhans , the picturesquely named nodes of tissue which actually produce the insulin . |
| 18 | Since we do not expect the front-end to recognize only the correct phonemes we also look at less informative representations . |
| 19 | Once again , constraints on space make it necessary to address only the first stage of development , which occurs between the ages of 0 and about 18 months . |
| 20 | But to consider only the final selection examination , is to see only half the picture . |
| 21 | This echoes the general case made by Rychner for variation between closely related fabliau texts to be explicable on the basis of different intended audiences , although van den Boogard actually contradicted Rychner 's specific findings on the Anglo-Norman fabliaux , which Rychner found to represent only the common degeneration typical of " " transmission memorielle " " . |
| 22 | But other shocks to the system followed in quick succession : a new language and culture ; the insensitivity , not always unintentional , of foster parents , teachers and hostel administrators ; the cruelty of other children ( and some adults ) who equated all things German with Nazism ; the coming-to-terms with the long-term or permanent loss of family and friends who had been left behind , and the awareness that refugees could not expect to be treated other than as second-class citizens — to mention only the common causes of illness and depression . |
| 23 | This could be done more effectively if the law was changed so that it became the jury 's responsibility to assess only the actual damage to the plaintiff and the judge 's responsibility to impose an unlimited fine on the defendants according to his view of their culpability . |
| 24 | ENGLAND 'S number one , grandmaster Nigel Short from West Hampstead , is poised to score only the second victory of his career over former world champion Anatoly Karpov in their World Chess Championship semifinal match at Linares , Spain . |
| 25 | Porter has undoubtedly had a considerable impact upon corporate strategic thinking , and in this brief discussion it has been possible to present only the barest outlines of his ideas developed in two sizable books . |
| 26 | As long as bosses can influence the careers of subordinates , this filtering or laundering of communication to present only the positive side of ourselves will continue . |
| 27 | In the first four weeks during Stage I , it is very important to eat only the allowed foods . |
| 28 | Non-educational criteria almost invariably have priority in recruitment over educational ones and employers tend to have only the vaguest notions as to what particular qualifications entail or imply . |
| 29 | Notwithstanding this , the city policy continued to approach only the designated neighbourhood group . |
| 30 | During Dale 's tenure ( 1703–1752 ) the rents more than doubled but , of course , the Company was bound to pay only the due £10 irrespective of the actual yield , low or high , of the properties . |