Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the popular protestant version , one which is still shared probably by a majority of clergymen within the protestant denominations of the North , the church re-emerges after centuries of misguidance only with the Reformation . |
| 2 | Older methods of farming only caused surface damage to archaeological sites by ploughing , but modern intensive farming destroys sites much more quickly . |
| 3 | New product-protecting patents were more effective than all other methods of appropriability only in drugs , while in organic chemicals , plastics , and steel-mill products , they were no less effective than alternate methods of appropriability ( see Levin et al. , |
| 4 | Most Secretaries of State only manage to tap the helm , giving Defence policy little more than a change in emphasis during their time in office . |
| 5 | It is estimated that there are six million people in the UK who are able to use existing designs of bus only with great difficulty or not at all . |
| 6 | Speaking to both houses of Congress only 13 days after ordering United States forces into combat against Iraq , the President devoted much of his oration to the Gulf war , passages which were greeted by thunderous applause and standing ovations [ see p. 37940 ] . |
| 7 | Klopf accuses artificial intelligence researchers of building only the top ( logical , verbal ) storey of a 1000-storey building . |
| 8 | Narrow definitions of money only include items that can be spent directly : items such as cash and current accounts in banks ( since they can be spent directly by using cheques ) . |
| 9 | A-cups are Janet-Reger-ites , turned on by the decadent thrill of spending enormous sums on scraps of silk only their lovers will ever see . |
| 10 | Follow the directions in the appeal , eg , AI asks for the unconditional release of prisoners of conscience only . |
| 11 | Whatever resources were devoted to the transformation approach , the bulk of agricultural production continued to come from the millions of small farming families who were adjusting their forms of production only slowly . |
| 12 | It may be , therefore , that section 17(c) ( ii ) ( above ) refers to the more serious forms of sanction only , although detention or removal to a special unit would surely fall within its scope . |
| 13 | Although for reasons of space only parts of the conversations have been transcribed and reproduced here , for several of the conversations the extracts are just long enough to give a flavour of the content and tone of the conversation in general . |
| 14 | Control can approximate the effects of leadership only with people who are highly trained , docile and energetic all at the same time . |
| 15 | For example , with us , homicide is the prototype public offence , it is a crime which automatically results in the intervention of the police , whereas most breaches of sexual morality are matters of concern only to members of the domestic household and their close kin . |
| 16 | As we discussed at our first meeting and as I subsequently discussed with Angela Rumbold , it was very clear that unless there was a preparedness on the part of the Home Office to take its hands off the management of the Prison Service in its day to day business and allow itself to be constrained by matters of policy only , then it would not be possible to effect the changes which you deem desirable and which have become very clear to me as being necessary during the talks I have had and the visits I have made . |
| 17 | It usually turns into a frustrating , time consuming and exhausting task , particularly when you move pieces of furniture only to find that they do n't fit in the place you wanted to put them . |
| 18 | She used a range of textbooks and workbooks ( but analysed large segments of text only — not short sections such as questions or exercises ) . |
| 19 | The valuation of high cultural works of art , which sees possibilities of critique only in an aesthetic realm that is separate from the social , is constitutive of the modernist aesthetic of critical theory 's ‘ mainstream ’ . |
| 20 | The limp body of the monkey is only too human in its proportions , the cries of triumph only too reminiscent of the yells of a hooligan mob bent on violence in a city street . |
| 21 | If anything , years of experience only made you more aware of what could go wrong . |
| 22 | The supply problem was further compounded by the fact that during the four years of war only 50,000 dwellings were added to the national stock . |
| 23 | 1986 ) found that by 8 years of age only 3.3 per cent of children had never been dry at night but another 4 per cent had relapsed after achieving control ( secondary enuresis ) . |
| 24 | The premises The Premises means the unit referred to in clause 1.3 shown [ for the purposes of identification only ] edged [ red ] on the Plan including : |
| 25 | Companies should publish their statements of compliance only after it has been reviewed by the auditors . |
| 26 | For example , questions of relevance only to married women can be prefaced by a general question about marital status followed by an instruction for those who have answered in a particular way to move to the relevant subset . |
| 27 | There was a need for a trusting relationship between client and consultant , he agreed , but he was not prepared to rely on any headhunter completely , maintaining that they pretended to act according to codes of conduct only when it suited them . |
| 28 | The Yasa provided for the settlement of disputes and affairs of honour only between the races of the True People , for they alone were equipped with the talons with which the kanly — formal mortal combat — was fought . |
| 29 | Seconds later he was struggling under yards of silk only 20 feet down the other side of the hill , wrestling beneath the parachute like an actor in a soft porn film . |
| 30 | Finer details of plumage only visible at close range . |