Example sentences of "only the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Dufferin soon began to feel annoyed with the Congress habit of asking for changes which , however modest , only the government in its wisdom could think of introducing . |
| 2 | For this is not only the man in charge of the Second Division leaders but the former manager of West Ham , the last Second Division club to win the FA Cup . |
| 3 | The roof reflects only the sun in the hot red paint . |
| 4 | However unpopular such a measure might at first appear , the long experience of the commissioners had shown them not only the inefficacy in most cases but also the cruelty of issuing executions against the goods of defendants — ‘ as regards the wives and children of debtors by selling their beds from under them , and the expense and oppression attending the levy ’ . |
| 5 | On the evidence , the hearing officer considered that only the reduction in the disposal of scrap material amounted to a proven and readily quantifiable benefit . |
| 6 | Nothing to do but go upstairs and sleep ; only the lights in the morning room and she could turn those off without entering , just reach around the door . |
| 7 | But this is the general position and in vehicles like Minis it could be argued that such a view can be obtained when only the wiper in front of the driver works , therefore each vehicle must be dealt with separately . |
| 8 | This is not only the case in socialist states , where the old debates about the managerial revolution and the ‘ new class ’ suddenly become relevant again ( though Mali , Tanzania and Ghana are among the states that have been singled out as using socialism as an ideology enabling the bureaucracy to control the economy ) . |
| 9 | I could not distinguish between the nuances of temperature , only the change in light . |
| 10 | From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design . |
| 11 | The collector is at once confronted with a choice : shall he assemble his collection with only the binding in mind , or shall he pay regard to the contents of the book as well ? |
| 12 | She wanted to swallow , only the muscles in her throat were stiff . |
| 13 | It is the first time a British team has ever won a dressage medal and only the second in any major international championship . |
| 14 | The town is only the second in the country to win the honour . |
| 15 | Though they 've shown promising form in recent weeks , this emphatic win was only the second in 16 games for Mick Holgate 's men , who hold their middle of the table spot with rather more comfort after their best win of the season . |
| 16 | In signed Danish the words are spoken as in the upper line but only the signs in the lower line are articulated . |
| 17 | Only the signs in front of the numbers are different depending upon whether we read to right or left . |
| 18 | A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) . |
| 19 | Certainly the education system encourages them to , by valuing only the Standard in most territories . |
| 20 | The same two terms , ‘ bibliography ’ and ‘ history ’ serve to describe both subjects , and it is only the order in which they are cited and , in natural language , the connecting words that distinguish the statements of the two subjects . |
| 21 | ‘ The good stuff and the cheap stuff sold well , with only the properties in the middle sticking , ’ Coker says . |
| 22 | In fact , only the square in front of the eastern face of the building was intended for their use : up to 250,000 could assemble there to cheer the Conducator . |
| 23 | Examination of policies for cycling in these three countries will show not only the contrasts in infrastructure provision , but will indicate also where there is good practice in designing total transport environments which are conductive to cycling and are thus supportive of the traffic calming principle . |
| 24 | However , they show little evidence of what their problems actually are , and the phrase at the top does little to help ideas , describing only the slavery in sweated labour . |
| 25 | For the next seventeen years he spent only the summers in Germany , saying of Albert , ‘ I love him as if he were my own son . ’ |
| 26 | The images that we make are not themselves beautiful , they are only the cages in which we trap the living birds and butterflies of beauty . |
| 27 | The physical setting of a parish influenced not only the ways in which a family might farm their land or work at a particular craft but also such basic matters as whether they lived in a village , a hamlet or an isolated farmstead , whether or not they had valuable rights of common to go with their farms or cottages , and sometimes the type of tenure by which they held their land . |
| 28 | Only the workers in Karen 's laboratory heard the alarm . |
| 29 | Only the PKK in Turkey still demands independence . |
| 30 | Leaving the harbour high on the Pultney side of the river I passed an old folks ' home looking out over that cold North Sea ; only the dawn in winter can show any warmth . |