Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two terminals were installed in PC 's Riding House Street site library , one running Okapi '86 , as described above , and the other running a system which appeared to be almost identical , but used weak stemming only , no cross-reference table and no semi-automatic spelling correction . |
| 2 | The toothless old mare only turned her head and gave Granny what seemed like a horsey laugh too . |
| 3 | Among the shattered Iraqi forces only the Republican Guard was reported to be standing firm north of the Kuwait-Iraq border . |
| 4 | Because of his uncontainable high spirits only John and his second rider , Tracey Newman , ever take Milton out on exercise . |
| 5 | In summary , the future pattern will probably include the following ingredients : 1 recognition that oral reading and silent reading should proceed simultaneously , from entry into school ; 2 longer periods given to individual reading interviews , which will necessitate re-organisation of the curriculum , with a greater emphasis on group work based on collaborative learning ; 3 the group work will have clear outcomes , many of which will start with silent reading and result in reading aloud for communication ; 4 the teaching of phonics will be seen as one possible cueing system only , resulting in the use of more intrinsically interesting texts which will enable contextual hypotheses ; 5 the realisation that books as such may be diminishing , will demand that other forms of print are incorporated into reading aloud in school , for example , from computers and teletext ; 6 the teacher 's professionalism will be accepted as lying in the understanding of the reading process and the development of the child , and in his or her power to train the child to read independently for real purposes as early as possible . |
| 6 | They gained direct political influence only after the 1956 election , eight years after independence . |
| 7 | Others prefer primary surgical intervention , assuming a high risk of recurrence , and see primary endoscopic treatment as an alternative in patients with a high operative risk only . |
| 8 | Diabetics tend to have higher serum cholesterol levels than non-diabetes ( Santen et al , 1972 ) , and the old diabetic diet only recently abandoned may have been a contributing factor . |
| 9 | On the other hand , from the point of view of sociological knowledge , even the most certain adequacy on the level of meaning signifies an acceptable causal proposition only to the extent that evidence can be produced that there is a probability … that the action in question really takes the course held to be meaningfully adequate . |
| 10 | In all metric measures and their direct phi-based equivalents only the 25th , 50th and 75th percentiles are used , so that attention is only given to the central half of the grain population present . |
| 11 | But the independent three-man appeal panel of the British Athletic Federation only dismissed the sprinter 's appeal against his four year suspension on a split verdict of 2–1 . |
| 12 | But to all West Germany 's neighbours , the idea of a German military force only a few years after the defeat of Hitler s armies was still repugnant . |
| 13 | They included this year 's Dubai Cup winners at Hickstead , Robert Smith and Brook Street Boysie , who threw down their usual serious challenge only to be bettered by 1.05sec . |
| 14 | The directive proved controversial , however , because of its insistence on the so-called " reciprocity " principle , which declared in effect that banks from non-EC countries would be eligible to enter the future unified market only if their domestic markets offered a comparable degree of access to EC counterparts . |
| 15 | The expression of his own opinions had also become more predictable , with an aloofness from the contemporary political debate only matched by his constant call for spiritual and ethical principles to be introduced into that debate . |
| 16 | This stresses the social needs of man , such as job relationships and response to work-group pressures rather than management control , replacing the older concept of motivation by rational personal economic needs only . |
| 17 | Donations of fire-fighting equipment and technical advice began to arrive in late October , but observers commented that these were likely to be largely of symbolic political value only . |
| 18 | Morrissey 's ‘ Englishness ’ is somewhat ironic when you consider that his parents and his entire extended family only arrived here during the '50s . |
| 19 | A simple isosbestic point only arises if two species whose concentrations are changing as the reaction proceeds absorb significantly in the region of the spectrum concerned . |
| 20 | we beg to state that we have been guided not by mere aesthetic reasons only , but our opinions are based upon the observance by the competitors of the instructions furnished for their guidance , together with the general disposition and arrangement of the plans , the practicability of the designs in a structural point of view , and their capability of convenient application to the public service . |
| 21 | He declared that he would submit the trade agreement for the required congressional approval only after the passage of a more liberal emigration law currently being debated by the Soviet parliament . |
| 22 | I managed to find an old taxi , and Rachel and I rushed to this gleaming American hospital only to find it apparently empty ! |
| 23 | The respiratory depressant effect of morphine is well known and may be heightened in neonates due to the greater proportion of Mu-2 ( respiratory depression ) opioid receptor sites in early neonatal life only to babies receiving ventilatory support , however , the effects of respiratory depression can be minimised . |
| 24 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 25 | In December 1970 it received a coat of standard blue paint only to be repainted back into two tone green recently by the dedicated staff at Immingham depot . |
| 26 | The causal inference adopted by Greeley and Rossi was that Roman catholic schools only had a clearly identifiable and reinforcing effect on the belief and practice of this group . |
| 27 | It has been calculated that in an average semidetached house only twenty-five per cent of the heat generated actually warms the house : twenty per cent may be lost through unlagged upstairs ceilings and the roof ; twenty per cent through windows , doors and flues ; twenty-five per cent through external walls and ten per cent through the ground floor . |
| 28 | In fact , however , the dialectical interplay of the two means that real productive forces only manifest themselves in forms dictated by real social relations . |
| 29 | According to Eugen Dijmarescu , Minister of State for Economic Orientation , the state was paying out some 30,000 million lei per month in subsidies , while the population 's total monthly income only amounted to 26,000 million lei . |
| 30 | ‘ We can not afford to ignore any market area within the EC nor feel secure to sit back on a strong domestic market only to find our position eroded by competitors , ’ he said . |