Example sentences of "only [art] [noun] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He has triumphed by attacking a system that sucks the marrow from the body of the industry to leave only the flab and gristle of tired ideas . |
2 | Only the hiss and wheeze of Tsu Tiao 's laboured breathing broke the awful silence . |
3 | Researchers have to monitor not only the actions and behaviour of the group members , but also their own activities , and they must cultivate self-criticism and self-awareness . |
4 | ‘ An absolute king , ’ wrote Voltaire , ‘ unless he is a monster , can wish only the greatness and prosperity of his State , because it is his own greatness and prosperity , because every father wishes the good of his own household . |
5 | Only the Treasurer and Secretary attended all four meetings . |
6 | One moment the sun had been hanging above the desert , the next it had plunged out of sight , leaving only the copper and rose and saffron of the water to testify that it had been there . |
7 | The High Street had been left to the pimps and the down-and-outs , and in the ancient College grounds where once the Black Friars had taught and studied in a universe made of crystal spheres , there was only the clang and clatter of brake couplings and buffers . |
8 | Truly I make but a stammering companion , I have no graces , and as for the wit you may have perceived in me when we met , you saw , you must have seen , only the glimmerings and glister of your own brilliance refracted from the lumpen surface of a dead Moon . |
9 | Straightforward examples can be seen at Brampton in Norfolk , where the extensive ribbon developments are confined to the junction itself and the main roads radiating east , south and west , and at Braintree , where they occupy only the west and south-west approach roads at the expense of the staggered road junction itself ( fig. 6A and B ) . |
10 | Apart from the police forces — and here I move on to one of the hon. Gentleman 's questions — only the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency and Her Majesty 's Customs and Excise have direct access to the PNC , but they can see only some of the information and only to read it . |
11 | In such cases as the United Reformed Church at Headingley Hill , Leeds , it has proved possible to retain not only the galleries and organ , but also the pulpit and rostrum arrangement at the west end . |
12 | Unless only the name and address are given with accommodation measurements ( which of course must be accurate ) they may be liable under the Act . |
13 | Researchers of medieval settlements would do well , perhaps , to regard their scanty documentary references — often only the name and owner of a site at a particular date — in the same way that the Romanist looks at his sherds and the prehistorian his flint scatters . |
14 | Landings were made at Wurzburg and Frankfurt , but only the pilot and navigator were allowed to get out . |
15 | The preparation of each employee 's individual contract then requires only the assembly and printing of the relevant components , modified as necessary . |
16 | It can define only the quantity and quality of its journey . |
17 | I did n't see the great walled city of Chanchán , only the mist and rain , the blur of the headlights and the windscreen wipers clicking endlessly across my vision . |
18 | However , quite often the valuable function of a lead lesson is not only the stimulus and information conveyed by the materials but the way these are deployed by the live teacher at the moment of performance , responding to little hints and reactions from his class . |
19 | Only the title and script changed . |
20 | Then only the singing and laughter from Aunt Clarabel 's bar . |
21 | Only the style and tone with which he expressed them evolved in unison with the avatars of a progressively deepening international crisis . |
22 | Annesley inherited a substantial estate in Co Down , which at one stage covered not only the demesne and town of Castlewellan but the seaside resort of Newcastle and a large swathe of the Mountains of Mourne ( including Slieve Donard ) , which , as Percy French sang , ‘ sweep down to the sea ’ . |
23 | You have provided only the sage and onion . ’ |
24 | But no sooner had this new approach been introduced than criticisms were mounted : not only the costs and slowness of improvement schemes , but also the social conflicts inherent in gentrification when improvement benefited not the original occupant but an incomer where areas of working-class housing ( particularly in London ) were transformed into desirable enclaves for higher-income households . |
25 | The fatal disease was unromantic ( measles ) , but it almost carried off Louis-Napoleon also , and only the courage and devotion of Hortense prevented her losing both sons . |
26 | Only the scenery and radio music fill the emptiness . |
27 | Another testable restriction is that some variables will affect only the membership and wage equations directly . |
28 | Three weeks on from 27 September , ‘ An Unearthly Child ’ was rerecorded , with only the model and film footage being re-used from the pilot . |
29 | The German soldiers — who had learned their fighting on the Russian Front , at Monte Cassino and through the hedgerows of Normandy — had proved a match for the guerrillas , and it was only the indifference and boredom of the French public to a war which proved astronomically expensive in financial and human terms which led the French government to seek a political settlement . |
30 | In a medical consultation , only the office and role of doctor need to be identified . |