Example sentences of "and [conj] only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even before last night 's talks began , AEEU general secretary Gavin Laird said he was ‘ extremely pessimistic ’ and that only a miracle could prevent the plant 's closure . |
| 2 | It stated that he had seen an advertisement in the papers asking for designs for the redevelopment of the whole area between Downing Street and Great George Street , yet Hall knew the Cabinet had decided against this large scheme and that only the purchase of the Fludyer Street area would be completed . |
| 3 | Only we are behaving as if it 's nothing to do with us and that only the West is to blame for the thousands who turn their back on us . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed , there is much evidence to suggest that many collocations found in natural text are domain-independent , and that only the analysis of a sufficiently large and general corpus will provide coverage of such structures . |
| 5 | But , as I have said , the impression I was given in 1944 by three officers of the S.A.S. was that Leslie and his men had been dropped , and that only the plane itself had not returned . |
| 6 | She had thought everyone would have gone to the Oyster Bar and that only the night-watchman would be in the building . |
| 7 | Christ says everywhere that everything temporal is false , and that only the abstract is real . ’ |
| 8 | Relations with Austen Chamberlain were never quite the same and although only a handful of MPs refused to sign the memorial they included personal friends of Law like Amery and Aitken . |
| 9 | This is because chemists ' experiments last for years not thousands of millions of years , and because only a handful of chemists , not thousands of millions of chemists , are engaged in doing these experiments . |
| 10 | ‘ Induction offers the chef total control down to the last degree , and because only the pan is heated it means chefs no longer have to work in a hot , uncomfortable kitchen environment . ’ |
| 11 | Next , fro(5) , squaring and adding , we have unc and since only the uth , vth columns and rows have changed , we deduce that the sum of the squares of all the off-diagonal elements of B is less than that of A since we have replaced the two elements Auv of A by zeros in B. Thus unc Having evaluated B , we repeat the procedure to find C ; we select the element Bpq of largest modulus and find unc from ( see 4 ) ) unc we then proceed as before to construct unc and |
| 12 | In fact they needed little breaking in and after only a couple of long walks they were very comfortable indeed . |
| 13 | ‘ But then the team suffered a run of injuries and after only a handful of matches I was back on the field . ’ |