Example sentences of "only [adj] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also the party of international Protestantism , believing that England should open its arms to foreign protestants who had fled their own country on account of their religion , and were prepared to allow them not only complete freedom of worship but also the advantages of naturalisation . |
| 2 | It is also difficult to see the consistency between his reference to sex as fine and noble and his claim that only complete renunciation of sex leads to the realization of God . |
| 3 | Only 780,000 tonnes of cod are ready to spawn this year , compared with 1.1 million tonnes in 1991 . |
| 4 | First , as Mercer and Julien remind us , such an equivalence tends to obscure exactly those differences which need to be addressed if we are to understand not only each kind of discrimination separately but also their interconnections ( ‘ Race , Sexuality and Black Masculinity ’ , 99 — 100 ) . |
| 5 | They also observed that for some of those youngsters subsequently the change of direction brought only short-lived renaissance of interest and motivation before the same boredom and lack of achievement returned . |
| 6 | The pictures of precision attacks provide only anecdotal evidence of effectiveness . |
| 7 | The traverse of Fell End Clouds is a short delightful expedition , less than three miles in walking distance from the road and entailing only 500 feet of climbing . |
| 8 | Cavour , only fifty years of age , the great statesman Italy had needed for so long . |
| 9 | Life-chances : that is , all those material advantages which improve the equality of life of the recipient this may include not only economic advantages of wealth and income , but also benefits such as health or job security . |
| 10 | And if you are ever going to see one of the genuine though attested rarities among the local fauna , a bear , a lynx , or an eagle , the Park is the only place you might do so , though there are thought to be fewer than twenty bears still living in the Pyrenees , and only eight pairs of eagles . |
| 11 | It can also produce problems in hot weather , when your water is capable of holding only low amounts of oxygen . |
| 12 | ‘ According to the witnesses we have consulted , it seems likely that the growth expectations set forth in the Second National Plan ( 1954–57 ) were in contradiction to the conventional wisdom at the beginning of the 1950s , which expected that only low rates of growth were possible … |
| 13 | The tyres contain only low levels of carbon and no dioxins ; potentially harmful products of burning tyres are to be recycled . |
| 14 | Then , sometime before the summer of 1747 , he married Elizabeth , daughter and only surviving child of Philip and Luce White ( née Phillips ) of Prendergast . |
| 15 | Only that portion of income above this figure is taxed at a marginally higher rate . |
| 16 | Only that order of revelation of confession will permit recognition . |
| 17 | erm , only that sort of rules , probably a big advantage I think of staying in er sixth form is that erm you know the staff , you know the system and it and they know you , erm if you go |
| 18 | Only that sort of provision will bind the parties in advance . |
| 19 | Yeah , well not very , the only that sort of thing I . |
| 20 | He was unprepared for the pain the room gave him , the fierce memory of the last time he had been here , when only that impulse of chivalry , or folly , had prevented him from taking her , as he could have done , from making her his own instead of handing her over to whoever had got her now . |
| 21 | It also means that there can be no history in general , only specific structures of historicity . |
| 22 | Pancreatic tissue obtained from intact rats infused with saline for five hours released only minute amounts of platelet activating factor ( 1.6 ( 0.9 ) pg/100 mg of wet tissue ) . |
| 23 | It has the advantage of requiring only minute amounts of material . |
| 24 | More , he lived in hope that one such mirror would find something behind his looks only another pair of eyes could see : some undiscovered self that would free him from being Gentle . |
| 25 | It talks about only another layer of government and more red tape and state control , not less . |
| 26 | It is , after all , only another kind of sentimentality , drowning the painful scene in the self-indulgent feelings of the onlooker . |
| 27 | It 's only another form of love . ’ |
| 28 | Certainly ‘ death 's other kingdom ’ ( my italics ) suggests that the speakers ' inane life is only another form of death . |
| 29 | Many of the dichotomies traditionally employed in this area — for example between constraints operating through reasons and constraints due to other factors — are formulated with individual subjects in mind , and so do not apply , while others , which were originally intended to apply to only some properties of individuals and collectives , must bear extra weight . |
| 30 | He not only has room in his science for God ; he tries to create God using only some laws of physics , some simplifying assumptions , some outrageous extrapolations , and truly cosmic gall . |