Example sentences of "only [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Only the vast numbers of the black-robed machines had prevented Bernice attempting to escape .
2 True egoism , as we have described it , is conceivable only under conditions of conflict in which only the pre-human ends remain .
3 Here we can consider only the final versions .
4 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 .
5 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 ) .
6 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 .
7 Where a departure affects only the corresponding amounts , the disclosures required by this abstract should be given for those corresponding amounts .
8 Here only the stricken souls
9 She may even do this by denying the bad experiences in her marriage to herself and to others , remembering only the good times , however few they were , and concentrating her thoughts on the positive aspects of her husband 's personality .
10 There are stories of good Germans , and the sad irony that only the good ones , ie the wrong ones , blamed themselves .
11 Yeah it 's only the good ones .
12 With , against him , not only the new laws — on the grounds that they could well still be fully operative — but his 37 years , Probyn may miss out on Lions ' selection .
13 WITH the new 10p coins we now have that annoying situation of some vending machines taking only the new coins and others taking only the old .
14 In contrast to this emphasis of the New Testament writers , much of the stress on the Spirit today dishonours Jesus , tends to squeeze him out of the picture , and infers that allegiance to Jesus is only the lower reaches of the Christian life , the heights of which belong to the Holy Spirit .
15 The exterior has been altered many times and now only the lower parts of the western towers and the main nave and choir show Romanesque work .
16 Alternatively , they may have experienced some risk , but only the lower levels which characterize the flat lower part of the relationship shown in Figure 3.3 .
17 The islands were not visible at all and only the lower slopes of Vesuvius could be seen .
18 However , another potential source of inequality , ‘ cream skimming ’ , which arises with HMOs is removed since , unlike HMOs , DHAs are compulsorily responsible for all residents and thus can not select only the lower risks .
19 However , DHAs could suffer the secondary effects of such selection if GP budget-holders choose to select only the lower risks leaving the DHA with the higher-cost patients within any category .
20 Given the Community 's capacity to help other European countries — not only the successful ones who now wish to join , and are already beginning to apply , but the east European countries , with all their problems — it is extraordinary and perverse to suggest that there should be greater disunity in the Community at the very moment when greater aid and support is called for .
21 The ceasefire provided for the withdrawal and disarming of all armed groups by the end of 1991 , excepting only the Soviet troops stationed there .
22 This family is characterised by the disk being ill-defined or constricted with the arms appearing to continue to the centre of the disk in some genera ; the disk may be covered with skin or a dense coating of granules ; the long and narrow radial shields ; the reduced papillae on the jaw with only the apical papillae well developed and the oral papillae small , like enlarged granules ; the genital slits situated vertically on the sides of the disk ; the arms long and covered with skin or granules .
23 University-trained lawyers dominated the civil service but only the highest posts gave social prestige .
24 Only the highest standards in church broadcasts are acceptable , and they require much careful planning and rehearsal .
25 EDMA will campaign to ensure that only the highest standards are applied in deciding the criteria for the planned EC eco-label on detergents .
26 This is a business where only the highest standards of manufacturing quality are acceptable .
27 And it is not only the financial institutions which present this objection ; it has also been put forward by Cutler et al .
28 London 's Evening Standard was moved to add fuel to the fire and proclaim ‘ this year , the long knives were out ’ , but it was only the tall tales that were really in evidence .
29 Life , in fact , would have been impossible for most higher forms , with only the hardiest microbes surviving .
30 The drawing shows only the enclosing boxes for the comprising assemblies and parts in the highest , " machine " , level of the hierarchical structure .
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