Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loch is very weedy and fishing restricted to only a few clear patches ; but there are some super trout to be had , deep bodied and golden in colour . |
| 2 | A thousand feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be — especially with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand . |
| 3 | Just 1,000 feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be , especially one with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand ! |
| 4 | Perhaps efficiency has turned into dumping and state-aided advantages enjoyed by only a few industries here , but both sides should still be on the record . |
| 5 | The Vimy was too large to construct a hangar around it and so , exposed to the elements , rebuilding work commenced with only a set of canvas screens for shelter . |
| 6 | Still , that 's what we all go for is n't it , to manfully plough through two foot deep mudholes in our be-trainered feet , to boldly stand in the pouring rain clad in only a T-shirt and to remain under canvas for three days whilst simultaneously holding both the tent and a beer can in a force nine gale ! |
| 7 | Although we thought at first that this was a saw intended for only a serious builder , we discovered that it also earned its keep doing fairly mundane cutting jobs that would normally be done by hand . |
| 8 | Another company holds an annual senior managers ' conference attended by only a few select top executives at which fundamental issues are discussed . |
| 9 | The ability to treat others by means of hypnosis is an acquired skill and not a special gift possessed by only a few . |
| 10 | Nearly 70 per cent of seasonal , temporary or casual workers are also part-timers compared to only a quarter of fixed contract workers . |
| 11 | Inflation increased by only a fraction to 3.2% . |
| 12 | Yuletide and Twelfth Night passed with only the occasional carols in church , for no one dared to go out at night . |
| 13 | ( The Supreme Court had held flag-desecration to be a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment , but this bill provided for only a $25 fine in cases of assault upon flag-burners . ) |
| 14 | Sometimes it represents more serious and massive popular discontents , as in the renewed turn to Scottish nationalism in the late 1980s , plainly a reaction both to an all-British government supported by only a modest minority of Scots and a politically impotent all-British opposition party . |
| 15 | Parliament reassembled after only a seven-week recess on 30 September . |
| 16 | Once again this attitude to the natural environment was essentially pragmatic ; farming involves replacing complex , natural biological communities with simplified , artificial systems dominated by only a handful of species . |
| 17 | However , when unveiled , this scheme met with only a lukewarm response ( and was disparagingly described by the prince of Wales as ‘ resembling a 1930s wireless set ’ ) and SAVE renewed its objection at a second public inquiry in 1988 . |
| 18 | Desperate , his wife Irene chased up a radio advertisement for drop-in surgery performed with only a local anaesthetic . |
| 19 | Thus a half of lone women aged 60–4 receive income from occupational schemes compared with only a third of those aged 75 and over . |
| 20 | Cocoa cultivation spread so quickly around the world that all the crops derived from only a few wild ancestors , so that modern cultivated varieties suffer from a lack of genetic variation . |
| 21 | A monthly on the Third World from a big publishing stable had just had the plug pulled after only the sixth issue . |
| 22 | Claims submitted with only a vague description of how loss/damage occurred . |
| 23 | As this provision catered for only a small proportion of part-time further education teachers and , with very few exceptions , led to no formal qualification , it in no way constituted an adequate or unified system of training . |
| 24 | Over the period 1957–65 for US manufacturing , extra sales by overseas subsidiaries counted for an estimated 13 per cent of the total increase in production ( additional exports accounted for only a trivial 2 per cent ) . |
| 25 | AROUND 7000 PLANT-DERIVED MEDICINAL COMPOUNDS USED IN WESTERN MEDICINE COME FROM ONLY A SMALL NUMBER OF PLANT SPECIES … |
| 26 | She had come through her sternest test , she had proven the singing budgie brigade was woefully wrong and that she was now ready to take her career into the even more rarefied atmosphere occupied by only a tiny handful of superstars . |
| 27 | Even then it tends to be an option used for only a selection of shots depending on hazards , the pin position and preference for a particular shape of shot . |
| 28 | In this paper they made the remarkable prediction that radiation ( in the form of photons ) from the very hot early stages of the universe should still be around today , but with its temperature reduced to only a few degrees above absolute zero ( - 2730 ° C ) . |