Example sentences of "only [prep] [art] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equity markets recoiled from these gloomy indicators by falling sharply at the beginning of the week , pausing only for the Chancellor 's speech at the Tory Party conference , but still failing to recover lost ground by the close . |
| 2 | I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth . |
| 3 | Catering manager Kirsty Yearsley and her staff cater not only for the Board 's 300 employees , but also for 100 civil servants who occupy the building . |
| 4 | Integration is still very much in its infancy and working examples of its practice need to be documented , not only for the school 's own evaluation purposes , but also to provide discussion documents to encourage other schools to take a careful and considered look at their own provision . |
| 5 | ‘ Margaret , ’ I coaxed , ‘ say yes , if only for the General 's sake . |
| 6 | R. E. Kaske puts it extremely neatly by claiming only for the Miller 's Tale an " " implicit orientation " " towards " " a controlling set of [ moral and religious ] values " " creating a framework within which , ultimately , the actions within the tale and the actions of writing , telling and reading the tale , are to be evaluated . |
| 7 | Lyons selects the very finest beans for the World of Coffees range , only after the company 's experts can be satisfied that quality is assured . |
| 8 | He promoted county petitions supporting the vote of no addresses and the trial of Charles I. But although named to the high court of justice in January 1649 , he stayed away and returned to Parliament only after the king 's execution . |
| 9 | It was only after the protector 's death in September 1658 that Stokes ventured to arrest his deputy and ship him back to England for trial . |
| 10 | It comes only after the group 's members in Chicago broke into boarded-up houses and occupied them . |
| 11 | Sometimes the root deed itself will refer to the restrictive covenants and sometimes new restrictive covenants will be imposed in this transaction , for example , if it is a sale of part only of the seller 's property . |
| 12 | For those who want a complete directory' not only of the world 's railways but also of manufacturers of railway equipment of every kind , from coaches to couplings , then Jane 's is your book — provided you have £50 to spare , which is £7 less than a second class return from London to Newcastle . |
| 13 | The essential problem in an extreme version of the constructed-sentence approach occurs when the resulting sentences are tested only against the linguist 's introspection . |
| 14 | Chlorohydra genes and alga genes , beetle genes and bacteria genes , can get into the future only via the host 's eggs . |
| 15 | Mergers and takeovers would be possible at any time , but only with the board 's consent . |
| 16 | 1.50 Once the 21 days for acceptance have passed or the trial has started the plaintiff can take the money in court only with the defendant 's consent or by order unless the payment in itself was made or increased after the trial started , when he has two days to accept , but must do so before the judge begins to deliver his judgment ( RSC Ord 22 , r5 ; CCR Ord 11 , r3 ) . |
| 17 | Depression can have a devastating effect not only upon the person 's family but also on their job . |
| 18 | There was a local tradition that Gloucester and the Stanleys came to blows over the division of authority , and their continuing rivalry may lie behind a royal command in 1476 that the tenants of Congleton should attend ‘ only upon the king 's highness and in his absence upon the lord Stanley ’ . |
| 19 | There was a local tradition that Gloucester and the Stanleys came to blows over the division of authority , and their continuing rivalry may lie behind a royal command in 1476 that the tenants of Congleton should attend ‘ only upon the king 's highness and in his absence upon the lord Stanley ’ . |
| 20 | But most mental illness lacks any clear physical symptoms and is recognizable only from the patient 's abnormal behaviour . |
| 21 | The job should be analysed not only from the surveyor 's point of view , but also from the client 's . |
| 22 | An attempt by Daily Mail journalists to broaden the paper 's political coverage of the 1983 election was rejected on the grounds that only the editor was responsible for content and that outside pressure , if only from an organization 's own journalists , amounted to interference in the running of that organization . |
| 23 | Les Petits Riens survives only in a copyist 's score , making the identification of Mozart 's contribution problematic . |
| 24 | Sometimes , as in this example , the contrast is obvious in the language itself ( play well v. lose ) ; on other occasions , the contrast may be only in the speaker 's mind , e.g. : |
| 25 | He was able to make use of parrots not only in the Society 's collection , but in the vast private menageries of Lord Stanley , who was then president of both the Zoological and Linnean Societies , and who would later become Lear 's principal patron ; and in the collections of Sir Henry Halford , ‘ the eel-backed baronet ’ and physician to George IV and William IV ; of Lady Mountcharles ; and of Vigors himself , who was a neighbour of Lear 's at Chester Terrace . |
| 26 | When the capacity to express powerful feeling is restored , changes occur not only in the person 's perception of the world but also in their physiology . |
| 27 | Only in the club 's last two league games have the players shown anything like their best form , although the league cup quarter and semi-finals against Aberdeen and Celtic have been exceptions . |
| 28 | Only in the Empress 's own apartments was there any sign of normality , where Eugénie had installed herself with her personal maid , her secretary and a handful of courtiers who had come from Saint Cloud to be with her . |
| 29 | Only in the symphony 's third movement Allegretto does Barbirolli overdo things by affectionately overlaying some schmaltzy portamentos on to the gorgeous string theme of the Trio . |
| 30 | Instead of scraping them , a heavy expenditure was incurred on pumps , carts and hired labour to keep down dust levels by watering : " the mud indeed is so very deep all the winter and so fluid after rain , as to render it unsafe to meet horses , owing to their feet throwing the mud not only over an horseman 's clothes but also into his eyes " . |