Example sentences of "only [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Only the vast numbers of the black-robed machines had prevented Bernice attempting to escape . |
2 | A quarter of the Japanese population , some 30 million people , live in the most exposed area which also contains not only the vast bulk of the business community but also an alarming quantity of chemical plants . |
3 | Perhaps only the Transylvanian Valentin Bakfark ( Greff ) ( 1507–76 ) , lutenist at the Polish court , who not only made the customary transcriptions but composed ten extended fantasias packed with imitative polyphony , can be ranked with Francisco de Milano , Gintzler , and the Spaniards . |
4 | True egoism , as we have described it , is conceivable only under conditions of conflict in which only the pre-human ends remain . |
5 | In many , the enclosure award of Georgian days was only the final clearing-up of remnants of open field that survived after piecemeal enclosure had been going on for generations or even centuries . |
6 | But to consider only the final selection examination , is to see only half the picture . |
7 | There appears to be no time-limit on the matters to be considered , so that not only the final act but a whole course of conduct may be taken into account . |
8 | There were some valid defences , particularly the poor state of most of the pitches and the injuries to Gatting ( having returned from getting his nose repaired he promptly had a thumb broken and played in only the final Test ) , but some of the criticisms were very valid , too . |
9 | that only the final product of the primary school system is worthy of serious evaluation ; |
10 | Braintree started to control the midfield in the second half and only the final touch in the circle let them down . |
11 | Holding only the final outcome to be significant denies the continuous shifts in members ' goals , attitudes , satisfactions and interactions . |
12 | For our purposes , only the final group pass muster into the Soviet Empire , but the others are worth noting in passing . |
13 | It was believed that Butch , or Bomber Harris as they called him , did n't care how many men he lost if only the final result was the defeat of Hitler . |
14 | Here we can consider only the final versions . |
15 | The return to use of the substance or behaviour of addiction is only the final stage of relapse . |
16 | Newcastle were always striving to keep the ball by those machine-like movements which only the cleverest exponents of the short-passing game can exhibit . |
17 | From the time of the early modernists ( Schoenberg and others ) , only the radical avant-garde has resisted this situation , and that at the price of social isolation and deliberate incomprehensibility : the only way left to refuse the market . |
18 | Only the tagging method of handling synonyms is unaffected . |
19 | Only the poor man happens to be me . ’ |
20 | Only the poor man who has no shelter comes to live here . |
21 | So it 's only the poor bloke on-site who does n't know ? |
22 | During Dale 's tenure ( 1703–1752 ) the rents more than doubled but , of course , the Company was bound to pay only the due £10 irrespective of the actual yield , low or high , of the properties . |
23 | Interesting to note that in a week where Madonna , Nick Heyward , Tracie , The Pretenders and Siouxsie and The Banshees all released singles , only the low key meanderings of The Smiths were to find fruition as hit material . |
24 | Parkinson 's disease , pernicious and contagious , affected not only the late Poet Laureate 's motor functions , but seemingly also those of anything named after him . |
25 | Only the higher summits are ‘ very cold ’ , and there are no ‘ extremely cold ’ areas with annual accumulated temperature lower than 300 day°C ( Birse 1971 ) . |
26 | In Benedict 's , as in most hospitals , only the higher nursing ranks dealt directly with the residents . |
27 | Only the higher levels of secondary education , from the ninth grade onwards , have continued to expand , though they have been growing from a very low base . |
28 | The lights went out during the two world wars and the austerity years which followed , so although this year is actually the 80th anniversary , it 's only the 60th display . |
29 | The law does not prohibit all force on the person , but only the unlawful use of force . |
30 | Where a departure affects only the corresponding amounts , the disclosures required by this abstract should be given for those corresponding amounts . |