Example sentences of "only [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a planning authority wished to restrict its activities , it was held that it was only right for the extra costs to be reimbursed . |
| 2 | Significantly , however , as Table 4 also reveals , very little of the replacement residential stock took the form of traditional hostel services : only 32 of the social services department 's additional 161 residential places were located in hostels . |
| 3 | As a result the CPCz held only 138 of the 350 seats in the Federal Assembly , about half its previous strength . |
| 4 | ’ ) Recognition was not only rife among the wee folk . |
| 5 | Some authorities believe that a really delicate reaction is only possible for the domestic cat at up to 45,000 cycles per second . |
| 6 | Transport is another area in which the discussion ranged from immediate action to changes only possible in the distant future . |
| 7 | A full cognitive understanding of the constancy of gender across time , space and circumstances is not reached until 8 or 9 years ( Kohlberg 1966 ) , but gender reassignment is usually only possible in the first two or three years ( Money and Ehrhardt 1972 ) . |
| 8 | And of those few hundred roundneck Tri-Plates , only eleven of the top-line Chrysanthemum-pattern Style 4s are known to exist . |
| 9 | When the dust of the election battle settled , Terence O'Neill found himself with a minority government and the support of only eleven of the Unionist backbenchers . |
| 10 | We are only rich in the moral sense . ’ |
| 11 | Then occasionally when we had houses broken into and so on , if it was thought that a tramp could have been responsible , it used to be a great help if we gave out nine tickets for tramps and only eight of the nine were admitted to the casual ward , then we should clamp down of course on the one who failed to turn up . |
| 12 | The Treasury is understood to be insisting that only eight of the threatened 31 pits remain open . |
| 13 | Here only eight of the 3,000 communicants were Nonconformists . |
| 14 | Although only eight of the 23 British Columbia players who went to the World Cup were on hand for the two games it was enough to see the host province safely through to championship no.23 by virtue of wins over Alberta — and that was a close call indeed — and NEWFOUNDLAND . |
| 15 | Les Verts member Marie-Christine Blandin was subsequently elected president of the regional council in Nord-Pas-de-Calais ( long a socialist stronghold ) after the party Les Verts ( which controlled only eight of the 113 seats in the regional council ) refused to support the Socialist candidate . |
| 16 | In a hard race , with only eight of the 28 starters completing the 77 laps , Mansell who won the pole position with a speed of 106.627mph spun and hit a wall . |
| 17 | Moreover , to say that a set of activities and skills partakes of the general discipline of librarianship is not the same thing as saying that all people who have ever been trained as librarians can perform them , or that they must be performed by people whose training is only that of the professional librarian . |
| 18 | It was n't only due to the harsh words they had exchanged over Ryan ; she found it hard to write naturally because of the lie she was enacting . |
| 19 | But in North America modernity , while retaining this basic meaning , has become a term that is not only descriptive of the central features of modern life in advanced societies but increasingly contains a moral dimension ; that is to say , modernity is viewed with concern as a source of conflict , contradiction and danger . |
| 20 | This 24 hours is only two-thirds of the 36 hours available ; it should be considered a minimum time to allocate to private study . |
| 21 | Only 120 of the 3400 rebels taken prisoner were executed and at least 40 of these were deserters from the royal army . |
| 22 | Only 120 of the 820 electors had been able to vote . |
| 23 | The borough MPs were very different from their county colleagues , and only thirty-seven of the eighty-six from English boroughs even lived in the same towns ; many were carpet-bagging lawyers , induced to stand at the last moment and at the expense of Central Office . |
| 24 | Only thirty-seven of the seventy lots presented sold , for a total of FFr11.76 million ( £1.4 million ; $2.2 million ) , with FFr12.44 million being bought in . |
| 25 | I could not load from 3½″ copies made from the 5¼″ sets either , as I got a ‘ VERIFY ’ message and only 2 of the 4 disks would load . |
| 26 | She feels strongly that the number of women judges — only 2 in the High Court and one Lord Justice of Appeal — is ‘ disappointing ’ . |
| 27 | It was only high in the European Alps , on the 7992ft Furka Pass , to the accompaniment of a frenzy of wheelspin , turbo lag , understeer and a violently pulsating brake pedal triggered by an anti-lock device working overtime , that the American challenge began to fade . |
| 28 | The ventral arm plates are axe shaped ; thin proximally but flaring out with a wide convex distal edge and only contiguous on the first few arm segments . |
| 29 | 9% of physicians refused to participate and only 322 of the 405 included did take part . |
| 30 | Note that only some of the additional text rows created by lexicographic activity in the Working-Set are copied back to the Main Database . |