Example sentences of "only [art] [noun pl] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only a short distance off the Pan-Americana , all grey mud dust , the outer walls towering so thick , so solid , that , after the better part of a millennium , they were still standing eight or nine metres high , only the ramparts showing the erosion of time . |
| 2 | In both factions Jews were prominent , but only the Mensheviks attracted a significant proportion of minority nationals , especially Georgians and Ukrainians . |
| 3 | ( ii ) By mass spectrometry , X is found to contain only the elements Suggest a molecular formula for X. |
| 4 | Only the hills sent a faint echo back . |
| 5 | Only the brains to do the operations . |
| 6 | This would soon leave only the androids protecting the security state apparatus . |
| 7 | only the trees know the pain as they still stand erect |
| 8 | Rooms must be allocated and charted on the reservation and room status charts so that not only the clients get the type of accommodation they have requested but also the hotel achieves the maximum occupancy of the rooms . |
| 9 | Only the Tories increased the number of their ethnic minority candidates , selecting two , moreover , for winnable seats . |
| 10 | Only the Wesleyans had a system whereby the national organization had any control and even they had problems . |
| 11 | There had been partisans hidden up there during the war , before you … but now only the shepherds used the long-abandoned houses and they went up on foot with their flocks . |
| 12 | Most of the other searchlights were out now , and only the fires lit the quays and the gaunt dockside warehouses that echoed to the sharp burst of a tommy-gun 's fire and the sharper answering rent of a German Schmeisser 's more rapid fire . |
| 13 | Only the cats had a better reason ! |
| 14 | A combination of a biographical dictionary of activists begun in the 1920s ( which was cut short by Stalin after completion of only the volumes covering the 1860s , 70s and a small proportion of the activists of 1880–1904 ) and the meticulous records of the Police and Justice Departments on political arrests have made possible rough estimates of the number who actually fell foul of the authorities . |