Example sentences of "but only [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known . |
| 2 | Thus , in the Maya world-view there was no sense of progress but only a blending of past , present , and future , which all tended to become one . |
| 3 | Wages rose with inflation after the war to £8 a week but only a minority of players on a club 's books received this . |
| 4 | WORLD recession is blamed for the problems in our own economy but only a minority of people in the country accept that . |
| 5 | So called keyhole surgery is being hailed as the way most operations will be carried out in the future but only a minority of surgeons can actually do it . |
| 6 | Seisin is a root of title , and it may be said without undue exaggeration that so far as land is concerned there is in England no law of ownership , but only a law of possession . |
| 7 | In fact over two million people in the UK have the disease , but only a quarter of them are getting any treatment . |
| 8 | The footbridge section was narrow , but only a couple of feet to his left — within touching distance , in fact — was the steel mesh side of the railway bridge where monsters went battering across , drowning out conversation as their lights flickered through the big crossed support girders . |
| 9 | Out of this theory it also follows that the uniqueness of each individual construct system necessarily means that there can be no straightforward response to a stimulus but only a multiplicity of interpretations . |
| 10 | I took a breath and pulled myself hand over hand down the curtain , seeking to find the bottom of it with my feet : and there was indeed a gap between the bottom edge of the curtain and the mud , but only a matter of inches , and there was clutter down there , unidentifiable , pressing against the barrier , trying to get past it . |
| 11 | She was lying almost abeam of us , and at first I could n't see her hull , but only a sort of thickening of the mist that turned out to be her mast . |
| 12 | ‘ Jazz exploded in London in the mid-Eighties , but only a handful of people got a deal out of it , ’ says Geoff , who got into hip hop via rare groove and whose CV includes organising CND and Artists Against Apartheid benefits , putting on jazz rap weekends to try and prove bands could carry it off live as well as on record , DJing at Camden 's Jazz Cafe and , until recently , booking the bands there too . |
| 13 | Stalin finally and belatedly authorised a break-out attempt in July , but only a handful of men , driven by desperation through a hail of fire , escaped from the pocket . |
| 14 | She was being led to a place that many people had heard about , but only a handful of desperate , hunted souls had actually seen . |
| 15 | But only a handful of rare breed Gloucester cattle now remain at Maisemore Court . |
| 16 | The Installation Directory is also created on each VAX from which LIFESPAN is to be accessed remotely , but only a subset of the delivered files need to be transferred in this case ( see Section 1.3 ) . |
| 17 | The doctrine of the Trinity ‘ is not an immediate utterance concerning the Christian self-consciousness , but only a combination of several such utterances ’ ; that is , it serves to combine and hold together the different affirmations of the Christian consciousness concerning God the Father , Jesus , and the Holy Spirit , but it is essentially a theological construction which has its place in theology but should not be taken as expressing the truth about God . |
| 18 | But only a trickle of tourists passed through Checkpoint Charlie . |
| 19 | But only a section of one group receives sustained and sympathetic support from the SERC Physics Committee . |
| 20 | At the end of the debate on the document , the Institute 's Council did not endorse the proposals but only the publication of the report for consultation purposes . |
| 21 | But only the grant of the option depends upon consent . |
| 22 | They do not question the need for such training but only the practicality of it . |
| 23 | Otherwise there can be no genuine participation , but only the imposition of the ideas of those who are linguistically capable . |
| 24 | Otherwise there can be no genuine participation , but only the imposition of the ideas of those who are linguistically capable ’ ( chapter 2 , paragraph 2 ) . |
| 25 | In earlier times there was a water mill at Huntley , but only the outline of old water courses can be seen today . |
| 26 | He sat still , his ears straining , but only the cawing of the ravens and the distant bark of some farm dog broke the chilling silence . |
| 27 | But only the sound of the shower in the distance answered her . |
| 28 | He did n't want answers but only the pleasure of his own voice . |
| 29 | As with so many worldly matters , it was Lawrence who had introduced me to the gravel and grain method of 241 humane culling , but only the theory of it ; I 'd never yet tried it in the field . |
| 30 | This was applied and extended by Sir Robert to safeguard the arrangements for telephone-tapping , even though when a tap is placed there may be no iniquity but only the suspicion of iniquity ; and that entire conversations may be recorded and listened to ‘ when much of the conversations may be highly confidential and untainted by any iniquity ’ . |