Example sentences of "[adj] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the models are one-dimensional only and can not be applied to a real solid . |
| 2 | There were as usual only a few lone silent figures , sitting in isolation . |
| 3 | They called off the alert only after finding Frankie 's hat and ‘ cowboy ’ gun in the house in Chippenham , Wilts . |
| 4 | Of this vast quantity of building which was achieved between 146 B.C. and A.D. 476 only a small fraction exists today and often this is in the best condition in the provinces of the Empire , despite the fact that the examples were generally less magnificent . |
| 5 | It seems we got a irregularity here — Mr Stein knows he goin' to be workin' here long-term but he apply for short-term only . ’ |
| 6 | Doubt is a state of mind in suspension between faith and unbelief so that it is neither of them wholly and it is each only partly . |
| 7 | Sticking up into the Gulf of Mexico like a thumb , Yucatan points towards Miami and New Orleans , each only an hour and a half from Merida by air . |
| 8 | Coral polyps are each only a few millimetres across but working together in colonies , they have produced the greatest animal constructions the world had seen before man began his labours . |
| 9 | The oilbird 's click lasts for about a hundredth of a second and is not a single sound but a burst of pulses , each only about a thousandth of a second long . |
| 10 | Stephen is inconsistent , using the JC form rarely ( in bus , some and come , each only once ) but usually having the Cockney variant ( in come , money , young , mother , trouble , does , just and up ) . |
| 11 | The sequence can be extended as far back as 275 only by including the Newton St. Loe Orpheus as the first , innovative mosaic . |
| 12 | Holiday brochures , as well as television travel programmes and magazine fashion features , now use images where Thomas Cook once used only words . |
| 13 | used only for those beyond redemption . |
| 14 | The idea that supermarkets should be built on green field sites out of town rather than in the High Street would have seemed absurd only a few years ago . |
| 15 | Once , a bat whirred inside his chamber , invisible and apprehensible only from the eerie displacement of the air , the frenzy of wings on a high note . |
| 16 | This is an important qualification ( that doubt is normal only in our abnormal situation ) , but it allows us to appreciate something of the positive side of doubt . |
| 17 | However , this does not prove semantic constituency , because coordination is normal only with other elements of the same sort — i.e. elements which similarly fail the recurrent contrast test . |
| 18 | Our results also showed that plasma and urine cAMP and cGMP values were abnormally high in coeliac disease patients who had not been treated , and became normal only after treatment when clinical , biochemical , and histological remission was achieved . |
| 19 | Some parents who had n't heard the news brought their children to school as normal only to be turned away . |
| 20 | Keeping in touch with this flow , as well as the hundred-odd pages of daily transcript , was a job practicable only for the zealots like Brian Rome or the massed ranks of the CEGB staff . |
| 21 | In particular , the floating charge is practicable only if created by a body corporate , there is a separate system for the registration of company charges , there are distinct statutory procedures for the enforcement of the floating charge , certain provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986 affecting company charges are unique to corporate insolvency , and the floating charge can be used tactically in order to veto the making of an administration order . |
| 22 | One hundred and thirteen authors ( 21% ) cited their own theses at least once ; sixty-five of them self-citing only once . |
| 23 | Like so many journalists , I am very Opinionated , hopefully in private only — even about my own profession , journalism If we are to be seen as an independent , unbiased and creditable observer , should we really be in the political arena with our trade union the NUJ ? |
| 24 | They want a written constitution ( though Labour only implies this ) and a Bill of Rights . |
| 25 | They hung on to most of the key marginals , with Labour only managing to win three of the eight constituencies it hoped to capture despite increasing its vote in almost every seat . |
| 26 | The worst fact of 1987 was that without the Foot and Falklands factors , Labour only reduced the Tory lead from 5 to 3¾ million . |
| 27 | APPOINTMENT OF LABOUR ONLY SUB-CONTRACTORS — TERMS AND CONDITIONS |
| 28 | Labour only pledge , of course , to er to spend money on pensions and child benefit , so the shadow treasury tell us . |
| 29 | Bowen delivered the ideal ball into the penalty area and Sutton reached it before the advancing Norman only to flick it a yard or so over the top . |
| 30 | An example on English provincial home ground of the type of short-cut activity imported into Ulster was the planting of drugs by policemen in Liverpool which was exposed by Radio Merseyside in 1971 only a few months before the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ . |