Example sentences of "and only the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clergy wives have to battle alone with parish disapproval , and only the strongest-minded , and those who are prepared to verge even on defiance , survive the financial problems and the misery of lack of friendship . |
| 2 | She comes from a very strict family , and only the actual shotgun was missing when she was pregnant within weeks of meeting Flo . |
| 3 | Speak in ordinary conversational voice in a large room or hall and only the front row will hear you . |
| 4 | Only other white-breasted duck is short-necked heavy-billed Shoveler drake , and only the white-headed maritime drake Long-tailed Duck also has a long tail . |
| 5 | And only the one horse and that small pack … |
| 6 | With the closure of tram routes in Croydon on 7 April 1951 , the Croydon E/1s were transferred to New Cross depôt , to work on routes in South East London and only the two war casualties 376 and 396 were missing . |
| 7 | I saw a school essay containing the word ‘ yrnetn ’ for wire netting ; and only the other day the Independent Magazine carried an advertisement for Philips Dictation Systems with the interesting sentence : ‘ In the time it took Dickens to write A Tale of Two Cities he could of told us a dozen more . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I wear a hearing aid and only the other day I could n't understand what my helper was saying . |
| 9 | Going back the other way , those needles which just knitted will rest and only the other ones will knit ; for example , going from right to left the first and alternate needles KNIT , going back from left to right , the second and alternate needles knit . |
| 10 | If it is partitioned in the form unc where Y is of order ( n × p ) and unc square , of order p , ( 2 ) gives unc and only the first of these equations concerns us . |
| 11 | Such relations occur in hierarchies , but for a proportional series all the structuring relations must be ‘ one-to-one ’ , that is to say , each relation must be such that for any element there is just one other element to which it can stand in that relation , and only the first element can stand in that relation to the second . |
| 12 | Seven nations ( Australia , France , New Zealand , Norway , the UK , Argentina , Chile ) claim sectors of the continent ; the claims of the last three overlap substantially , and only the first five recognize each others ' claims reciprocally . |
| 13 | The mechanical output power per phase is simply the product of the phase current and the induced voltage ( Fitzgerald and Kingsley , 1952 ) : As the system is assumed to have an inertia large enough to prevent significant changes in velocity , the time.varying components of mechanical output power are of no interest and only the first term of Eqn . |
| 14 | This was the 10th occasion on which Congress had requested the appointment of a special prosecutor , and only the first on which it had been denied by an Attorney General . |
| 15 | The old key card code is invalidated on the computer console and only the new key card code will operate and open the room door . |
| 16 | Net K + absorption was significantly decreased by 12.5 µgcholera toxin , and only the highest dose ( 25 µg ) caused net secretion ( Table IV ) . |
| 17 | Any partial hypotheses which end at the same node are equivalent as far as further right context is concerned , and only the highest scoring need be kept . |
| 18 | The British Employers ' Confederation , for example , had no strong views on the matter , the NFOAPA vaguely opposed compulsory retirement , and only the Fabian Society had given it much thought : they proposed an interesting ‘ double-decker ’ scheme , involving payment of 10s 0d per week as in the existing system , and ‘ adequate ’ pensions on retirement . |
| 19 | In long distance remote sensing with solar illumination the atmosphere absorbs energy in certain bands and only the remaining ‘ windows ’ are available . |
| 20 | This runs from a central core and only the current module is resident in memory , dramatically reducing the amount of memory needed , roughly half that needed by Symphony for example . |
| 21 | Suddenly she was in shadow and only the upper sky was lit with fingers of smoky orange and then an acid burnt lemon from the disappeared orb , but she walked on round unfamiliar roads in what was rapidly becoming dusk . |
| 22 | Data flow diagrams prove to be a good communication tool and only the major features of systems are drawn to help clarify . |
| 23 | Rauschenberg 's fertile imagination oscillates among styles and techniques , and only the Black and Red Paintings , with their richly textured surfaces of paint and newspaper , look properly accomplished . |
| 24 | She stood a while , intently regarding him , her hand steadying the portmanteau on the bed , and only the merest glimmer of guilt colouring her face . |
| 25 | Mr Hill 's cheque will be for £2,008,137.60p , the company 's sixth-biggest payout and only the seventh to top the £2m mark . |
| 26 | Super Sally joined an exclusive club by becoming only the fifth British girl athlete to strike gold and only the second ever on the track , following Ann Packer in Tokyo 28 years ago . |
| 27 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 28 | There is no room number on the key card and only the correct code punched on the card will operate and open the room door . |
| 29 | It all becomes a matter of working out how to get something done in the company , and this in itself is a matter of finding the right lever to pull , since all the concentration is on political in-fighting , and only the bare minimum on the actual achievement of a competitive advantage in the real world outside . |
| 30 | Soon all the grown-up Minpins , excepting Don Mini , had flown away on birds and only the tiny children were left . |