Example sentences of "only the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But to consider only the final selection examination , is to see only half the picture . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | that only the final product of the primary school system is worthy of serious evaluation ; |
| 7 | Braintree started to control the midfield in the second half and only the final touch in the circle let them down . |
| 8 | Holding only the final outcome to be significant denies the continuous shifts in members ' goals , attitudes , satisfactions and interactions . |
| 9 | For our purposes , only the final group pass muster into the Soviet Empire , but the others are worth noting in passing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The return to use of the substance or behaviour of addiction is only the final stage of relapse . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Only the tagging method of handling synonyms is unaffected . |
| 14 | Only the poor man happens to be me . ’ |
| 15 | Only the poor man who has no shelter comes to live here . |
| 16 | So it 's only the poor bloke on-site who does n't know ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In Benedict 's , as in most hospitals , only the higher nursing ranks dealt directly with the residents . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The law does not prohibit all force on the person , but only the unlawful use of force . |
| 22 | ALTHOUGH only the Communist Party came out strongly against a possible reunification of Germany yesterday , the prospect will cause an upheaval in French international thinking particularly over France 's role as the motor of the European Community . |
| 23 | Cut off from links with the political practice of the masses , which only the communist party could provide , their writings would inevitably serve only to confuse and mislead the popular struggle , and to give aid and comfort to counter-revolutionary forces . |
| 24 | The government of Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar in India maintained the previous low-profile response , with an expression of " deep sadness " on Jan. 17 coupled with calls for Iraq to begin an immediate withdrawal ; only the Communist Party ( Marxist ) took a firm line in denouncing " unjustified " US aggression , while still calling for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait . |
| 25 | Only the Communist Party , with its rigid discipline , could survive alone . |
| 26 | The privatisation will affect only the long-distance element of the network , which is run over lines leased from both British Telecom and Mercury . |
| 27 | The mind is almost dormant , only the watery quality remains connected to consciousness . |
| 28 | Reiterating that ‘ there 's no such thing as ‘ race ’ ’ offers only the frail reassurance that there should n't be a problem . |
| 29 | We must not use this section to define our boundary or we will overlook not only the Edwardian Era but most of the rest of human history besides . |
| 30 | But in hemianopic patients , only the crossed pathway can convey target inhibition from the ‘ blind ’ field that delays a saccade towards the intact field , and the crossed pathway also appears dominant in fixation control early in development . |