Example sentences of "[adj] only [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is a particular case of a general rule about Greenaway 's films : that only a person as obsessionally preoccupied with formal patterns as the director — and that is a tall order — can properly share his shock when death turns out not to be deterred by lists and games after all . |
| 3 | The advantages in determining serum 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one concentration are that it is an even simpler method , that only a serum sample is needed , that no radioactivity needs to be used , and that it is less time consuming . |
| 4 | Children with special needs have long been welcomed into playgroups or mother and toddler groups but members have tended to worry on two counts — first , that only a minority of families with children with special needs were finding their way to playgroup , and second that the playgroup was not fully able to meet the children 's needs . |
| 5 | Professor Everitt has written that innkeepers were among the most mobile elements in the community , but that only a minority established dynasties that lasted for three or four generations . |
| 6 | Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status . |
| 7 | But according to Israeli officials , most of the Soviets choose to live here in Tel Aviv or Haifa in Israel proper , and that only a fraction , less than one per cent , go to the occupied territories . |
| 8 | The next Council , that of Vienne , south of Lyons , took place from October 1311 to May the following year , and was unusual in that only a selection — though a geographically fairly wide selection — of bishops were invited . |
| 9 | that only a fool would navigate . |
| 10 | A face , she sighed , that only a mother could have loved . |
| 11 | Some woman-centred psychologists think , too , that only a woman should study female subjects , and that she should do so as much as possible , because only she can understand them . |
| 12 | After that only a matter of confidence . |
| 13 | It may be that we can learn from computers something of what we have been missing in the game ; or , that chess is so rich , that only a symbiosis between man and machine can explore it adequately . |
| 14 | We must stick to the view that only the treaty matters . |
| 15 | Both scored highly in the first round but the French had done so well in the next round with three landing on the line , that only the RAF stood a chance of catching them . |
| 16 | The there 's a widespread idea that if you let people have guns the result will be more crimes of violence and more murders , and therefore , people conclude , er at least they do in this country , that only the state should have a monopoly of firearms , so only the police and the army should be allowed to have firearms . |
| 17 | Each side claims to want mutual disarmament most of all , and claims , furthermore , that only the aggressiveness of the other side prevents this . |
| 18 | It is claimed , however , that only the female of the species is fertilized . |
| 19 | Note , in particular , that only the group 's share of the goodwill arising on the acquisition of Harris plc is deducted in this calculation . |
| 20 | It was argued earlier that only the use of higher level knowledge will enable any additional success . |
| 21 | 4.29 Only the cases where the relevant tax is UK tax will be considered . |
| 22 | Ipswich3 Newcastle2 IT IS still mathematically possible for Ipswich to miss out on a place in the Premier League next season , but with five games left against teams from the bottom eight only a fool would bet on it . |
| 23 | While most practising firms are having no difficulty in retaining and recruiting staff in the midst of a recession , the situation was , of course , very different only a year or two ago and will probably change again just as rapidly . |
| 24 | Nor is this only a question of a difference between writing and speech , as might at first appear . |
| 25 | In general this only a problem if you want to change leads with a weaker climber . |
| 26 | Very often , too , when we were travelling round the farms doing repairs ( and many of these were done just before harvest to prevent hold-ups at a busy time ) the Guv'nor would tell us to leave two shillings at a certain farm , half a crown perhaps at another , and at some only a shilling : that would go towards the men 's largesse-spending . ’ |
| 27 | Maybe one predator species notices only the colour , another only the shape , another only the texture , and so on . |
| 28 | Maybe one predator species notices only the colour , another only the shape , another only the texture , and so on . |
| 29 | These included : ( i ) extension of coverage to octopus , cuttlefish , primary cocoa products and essential oils ; ( ii ) lowering of dependency thresholds ( that is , the importance of an ACP country 's exports of a relevant product as a proportion of its total exports ) from 6 per cent to 5 per cent and from 1.5 per cent to 1 per cent in the case of the least developed countries ( LDCs ) ; ( iii ) abolition of the principle of repayment of interest-free loans granted under Stabex when export earnings permitted ( under Lome III only the LDCs had been exempted ) ; ( iv ) abolition of the Lome III mechanism for correcting exchange-rate fluctuations ( often called the " tunnel " ) in favour of a system of calculations based on the ECU . |
| 30 | The Education Reform Act 1988 has produced a degree of prescription and central control to which the government was apparently resistant only a couple of years before its enactment . |