Example sentences of "only the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the Annual General Meetings of the Board in 1858 and 1859 are recorded — extremely briefly — in the Minute Books , for by 1860 the High School had ceased to exist as a separate entity . |
| 2 | But only the radical pro-Soviet regimes in the Non-Aligned Movement were prepared to engage in such attacks . |
| 3 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 4 | I 'm sorry , I I 've obviously misunderstood something , because I was under the impression that in this er er steering gear there is only the sixteen double O four and the six eight O seven . |
| 5 | Well , perhaps only the new Foreign Secretary could sell it to Mrs Thatcher , and he will have his own notions of ripe time . |
| 6 | This brings some benefits through musical cross-fertilisation between the cathedral and the wider community , but the cathedral does not always get the full benefit of one who is employed to do what is commonly regarded as a full-time job , and this at a time when the Church needs from its organists not only the highest musical expertise but also liturgical knowledge and a readiness to take some part in the running of the cathedral . |
| 7 | It is not only the insular British , of course , who find such questions a puzzle . |
| 8 | For example , one Inner London library authority indicated that access to funds was available through the Head of Personnel and Management Services , for post-entry in-service training , but that only the total available to the Council ( £100,000/£101,200 ) was known . |
| 9 | In England the practice was not nearly as widespread as in France ( Langer 1972 ) , where ‘ only the middling poor , probably a substantial proportion of rural society , … nursed all their own infants ’ ( Flinn 1982 ) . |
| 10 | As the curative curve of a particular remedy comes to an end , the vital force has only the excess artificial disease stimulus of the remedy to respond to — susceptibility having been satisfied . |
| 11 | At the moment , I am working on a novel and the kitchen table has on it only the ancient German electric typewriter which I use to type out the second draft of what I have already written by hand . |
| 12 | The by-election swing from Conservative to Labour of 21 per cent was the largest such since 1935 , and the result represented only the 13th Labour by-election gain from the Conservatives since 1945 ( the most recent being the Vale of Glamorgan in May 1989 — see p. 36740 ) . |
| 13 | Not only the shining new camouflage clothes , but various shining new containers of tackle . |
| 14 | The Birmingham RC&W-built Class 27s disappeared soon afterwards ( despite expensive overhauls only months before ) , leaving only the 1958/9 Birmingham-built Class 26 surviving on specialist duties in Southern Scotland . |
| 15 | Only the Russian brown bear and the American black bear are not on the list . |
| 16 | ‘ Madame Craig , you are not only the greatest living writer of the detective novel , you are also a detective yourself ! ’ |
| 17 | Only the gentle green illumination of the large tropical fishtank added serenity and prevented the room from having the atmosphere of a funeral parlour . |
| 18 | But I am worried at the concept of a course of study , such as a National Curriculum , which restricts itself to only the traditional well-trodden roads . |
| 19 | It 's only the traditional Annamese way of welcoming Tet . " |
| 20 | Of 18 categories only the rural high oil group in 1979–83 , the early post-mixing period , showed a significant excess . |
| 21 | It was the appearance of the railway station in the non-European world which staked its claim to be not only the distinctive architectural form of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , but also the first which was genuinely world-wide . |
| 22 | Scientists from British Universities and dental schools now believe they did — and that the tiny inch-long eel-like creature was not only the earliest vertebrate but suggests that the first vertebrates began to evolve as long as 600 million years ago — as , of course , a marine fish … |
| 23 | When dinosaurs ' eating habits and teeth and jaw mechanisms are examined more fully , one wonders why only the terminal Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctions are the subject of endless debate rather than any of the preceding extinctions . |
| 24 | Only the loud bad music below and the arguments on the landing . |
| 25 | Only the closed minded can pretend that it 's bad news that more people can afford to travel , that was once the province of the few , is now open to the majority . |
| 26 | Finally , until recently , gynaecologists recognised only the classic blue-black lesion as being endometriosis and if diagnosis was restricted to this appearance and to severe cases this would influence the effect of age on the risk of endometriosis reported in this study . |
| 27 | ‘ You have an indefinable spirit , something that only the best Spanish poets , flamenco dancers and artists are gifted with . ’ |
| 28 | But for now , they are only the best kick-ass rock band in the country . |
| 29 | So we want to put only the best wild animals in it , and here in these jungles of yours you 've got some of the rarest animals in the world . |
| 30 | It will scandalise and offend not only the Catholic faithful . |