Example sentences of "only [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | President Yeltsin , as he made clear outside No. 10 Downing street , understands that the position of a super-power which has 30,000 nuclear weapons is different from the position of the United Kingdom which will have as an absolute maximum only 128 warheads per submarine . |
| 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 | Saint-Jean is not a mountain town , because it is only 500 feet above sea level , but it has the feel of a mountain town , because the hills close in tightly around it , especially to the south and to the east . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | First , there are those like Derby Lonsdale College of Higher Education formed from the linking of one or more colleges of education , which by definition offered only advanced courses in teacher training , with a college of technology which offered a considerable number of advanced vocational courses . |
| 10 | Cavour , only fifty years of age , the great statesman Italy had needed for so long . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Columbia was only eight hours from liftoff . |
| 13 | But the lead lasted only eight minutes before Sterling 's right wing cross reached the far post , where David Robinson outjumped the defence to head the equaliser . |
| 14 | It is then all the more strange that 1-2-3 for Windows limits you to using only eight fonts per worksheet . |
| 15 | The control regime was liberalized for computer , machine tool and telecommunications technology ( microcomputer exports having been permitted since August 1989 ) ; companies seeking exceptions to remaining restrictions would have to wait only eight weeks for permission , rather than 12 weeks as hitherto ; and countries such as Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , if they were prepared to introduce their own controls on use and re-export , might expect more favourable treatment . |
| 16 | G34 was assayed using antisera R526 in only eight patients in order to preserve sufficient sample for chromatographic studies . |
| 17 | It can also produce problems in hot weather , when your water is capable of holding only low amounts of oxygen . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 … |
| 19 | The tyres contain only low levels of carbon and no dioxins ; potentially harmful products of burning tyres are to be recycled . |
| 20 | Only that portion of income above this figure is taxed at a marginally higher rate . |
| 21 | Only that change in attitude and culture will convince others not to make the bomb . |
| 22 | Only that order of revelation of confession will permit recognition . |
| 23 | Only that sort of provision will bind the parties in advance . |
| 24 | Yeah , well not very , the only that sort of thing I . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The area would also be unsuitable for a business park , because it is only 1.8 hectares in size and the necessary development would be uneconomic , considering the amount of traffic that would have to be accommodated . |
| 27 | It also means that there can be no history in general , only specific structures of historicity . |
| 28 | 253 hours over a six month period gave a total of only 8.4 hours per team member per month ( or only 5.5 hours per month client contact if telephone calls and professional meetings were ignored ) . |
| 29 | Olive oil is a monosaturate , and as such was once discriminated against by weight-watchers and nutrition gurus , even though it too contained only 120 calories per tablespoon . |
| 30 | The highest land is only 2 metres above sea level and even this would be exposed to storm surges if mean sea level rose by 1 metre . |