Example sentences of "but only [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coat he had none , but only a waistcoat with sleeves … fastened at his neck and in divers places below with pieces of cord … |
| 2 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 3 | But only a hiatus at National Carriers caused by the closure of British Rail 's door-to-door parcels service in 1980 stopped NFC going the way of other privatisations — into the pockets of disinterested individuals and institutions . |
| 4 | The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known . |
| 5 | Thus , in the Maya world-view there was no sense of progress but only a blending of past , present , and future , which all tended to become one . |
| 6 | Wages rose with inflation after the war to £8 a week but only a minority of players on a club 's books received this . |
| 7 | WORLD recession is blamed for the problems in our own economy but only a minority of people in the country accept that . |
| 8 | So called keyhole surgery is being hailed as the way most operations will be carried out in the future but only a minority of surgeons can actually do it . |
| 9 | Seisin is a root of title , and it may be said without undue exaggeration that so far as land is concerned there is in England no law of ownership , but only a law of possession . |
| 10 | In fact over two million people in the UK have the disease , but only a quarter of them are getting any treatment . |
| 11 | It is possible that I missed someone 's parenthesis , but only a promise in the editorial that ‘ the link between the party and the unions ’ will be among subjects discussed in future sticks in the memory . |
| 12 | The footbridge section was narrow , but only a couple of feet to his left — within touching distance , in fact — was the steel mesh side of the railway bridge where monsters went battering across , drowning out conversation as their lights flickered through the big crossed support girders . |
| 13 | Out of this theory it also follows that the uniqueness of each individual construct system necessarily means that there can be no straightforward response to a stimulus but only a multiplicity of interpretations . |
| 14 | When I reached Ostend at midday on 16th there was no ticket but only a message to the effect that I had to buy another one . |
| 15 | I took a breath and pulled myself hand over hand down the curtain , seeking to find the bottom of it with my feet : and there was indeed a gap between the bottom edge of the curtain and the mud , but only a matter of inches , and there was clutter down there , unidentifiable , pressing against the barrier , trying to get past it . |
| 16 | She was lying almost abeam of us , and at first I could n't see her hull , but only a sort of thickening of the mist that turned out to be her mast . |
| 17 | A recruit of eighteen years old was unthinkable ; he would become a puissant man but only a runt among his superhuman peers . |
| 18 | ‘ Jazz exploded in London in the mid-Eighties , but only a handful of people got a deal out of it , ’ says Geoff , who got into hip hop via rare groove and whose CV includes organising CND and Artists Against Apartheid benefits , putting on jazz rap weekends to try and prove bands could carry it off live as well as on record , DJing at Camden 's Jazz Cafe and , until recently , booking the bands there too . |
| 19 | Stalin finally and belatedly authorised a break-out attempt in July , but only a handful of men , driven by desperation through a hail of fire , escaped from the pocket . |
| 20 | She was being led to a place that many people had heard about , but only a handful of desperate , hunted souls had actually seen . |
| 21 | But only a handful of rare breed Gloucester cattle now remain at Maisemore Court . |
| 22 | There were thousands surfing two-footers , but only a handful on twenty . |
| 23 | The Installation Directory is also created on each VAX from which LIFESPAN is to be accessed remotely , but only a subset of the delivered files need to be transferred in this case ( see Section 1.3 ) . |
| 24 | The doctrine of the Trinity ‘ is not an immediate utterance concerning the Christian self-consciousness , but only a combination of several such utterances ’ ; that is , it serves to combine and hold together the different affirmations of the Christian consciousness concerning God the Father , Jesus , and the Holy Spirit , but it is essentially a theological construction which has its place in theology but should not be taken as expressing the truth about God . |
| 25 | The three asserted that their only observation had been to suggest that because such a rumour was circulating it would be wise for it to be firmly denied or some enquiry made , and that they had not made any allegation against Profumo but only a suggestion for his benefit . |
| 26 | Because of the barrier against incest , the final object of the sexual instinct ‘ is never any longer the original object but only a surrogate for it … . |
| 27 | But only a trickle of tourists passed through Checkpoint Charlie . |
| 28 | But only a section of one group receives sustained and sympathetic support from the SERC Physics Committee . |
| 29 | At the end of the debate on the document , the Institute 's Council did not endorse the proposals but only the publication of the report for consultation purposes . |
| 30 | But only the grant of the option depends upon consent . |