Example sentences of "[adv] only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the options for the future of British Rail outlined in the 1983 Serpell Report would , if adopted , leave the network effectively only inter-main-cities , and would make the decline of rural railways almost complete . |
| 2 | Eventually only Thomson remained obdurate . |
| 3 | Luckily only Bethan 's face and neck were affected . |
| 4 | Negotiations with Exeter , for whom Bastin had signed professionally only weeks before , were successfully concluded , but Bastin himself , showing remarkable maturity for his age , saw his training as an electrical engineer as a sounder career prospect than Arsenal . |
| 5 | If more shakes are needed then a gradual increase in potency occurs until a saturation point arrives and presumably only intensification takes place . |
| 6 | The voices that had been loudest only seconds before were the quietest now . |
| 7 | John 's contemporaries among his fellow pupils were cosmopolitan European as much as South African , with a background of culture which perhaps only Johannesburg , in those special circumstances , could then provide in South Africa . |
| 8 | Perhaps only Barrie could have made a successful match between two such unpromising characters — a man who boasts that he has never laughed in his life and a woman who is acutely aware of being devoid of charm . |
| 9 | Perhaps only William Joyce could have taken for his text , as he once did , Edmund Burke 's axiom , ‘ In politics magnanimity is often the truest wisdom ’ — and promptly used it to show the necessity for the extinction of Jewry . |
| 10 | Perhaps only expert eyes could have spotted the correlation between this spirited image and the refined clothing which passed in front . |
| 11 | During this time of testing , a sufferer from alcoholism mat say that he or she can not be alcoholic because he or she does not drink in the mornings or is still in regular employment or still has a home and family or perhaps only drinks wine and beer but never spirits or only drinks at the weekends . |
| 12 | Its member states had joined for diverse reasons , and of the regional states perhaps only Thailand took the Pact seriously . |
| 13 | Perhaps only Chandos boss Brian Couzens would grasp an opportunity like that . |
| 14 | The first , and apparently only casualty was the little corn mill at Dowdeswell , immediately deprived of its water supply . |
| 15 | Apparently only signalling fell outside Darlington 's province . |
| 16 | Apparently only Novell 's Platinum dealers are effective in moving product . |
| 17 | It 's only only Christ is the |
| 18 | By 1958 Unwins listed just five single colours and three mixtures and before long only mixtures were available which included fewer and fewer shades . |
| 19 | Coventry possessed two big ones with assets totalling £321 , while the little village of Burnham Sutton , Norfolk , had no fewer than four , though they could scrape together only £11 . |
| 20 | The analysis below only concerns supplies within the UK . |
| 21 | The catch is that only females have two X chromosomes , so only females can display the red plus non-red tortoiseshell combination . |
| 22 | At this stage no green vegetation existed , so only photolysis could have created oxygen . |
| 23 | Normal armour is ineffective against the magic of Fearfrost , so only foes wearing magic armour get a saving throw . |
| 24 | So only Neil Webb left if you discount the goalkeeper and I remember the last time we did that Forest live game up at Bolton Forest had to use their both their substitutes in that game as well quite early on . |
| 25 | ‘ So only family counts , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 26 | then we got the new front door so only Betty now has got er , a spare backdoor key which was n't much good the day I bolted the door into the kitchen ! |
| 27 | Hitherto only border guards had been brought before the courts in connection with the " shoot-to-kill " policy [ see pp. 38736-37 ; 38782 ] . |
| 28 | ‘ Trying to make changes right away only results in rejected efforts , and sometimes creates other problems . |
| 29 | The church leaders said : ‘ In our opinion these are merely words — fine words certainly and welcome — but nevertheless only words . |
| 30 | Here you need to ford the River Esk — it 's normally only inches deep — and head for a waterfall , Cam Spout ( north , 0.5 mile ) . |