Example sentences of "only [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Most of us do a full week 's work — it 's only the skivers that do n't .
2 Abolishing the remission of fees , prohibiting student meetings , taking over student loan banks and closing student-run libraries alienated not only the students but also their professors .
3 Of these divisions only the gastropods and cephalopods contain predators and in terms of the home aquarium we only really need to consider gastropods as octopi and squid are so seldom offered on the hobbyist market .
4 Now imagine the same boundary maintained under the same forces and displacements not by the real continuum but by an arbitrary network of " finite elements ' in each of which we consider only the forces and displacements at their junctions , or " nodes ' .
5 Despite the GLC 's lack of success with London buses and the London underground , the Labour party wants to give back to the GLC not only the buses and the underground but Network SouthEast .
6 It was not only the cops but the Black Maria as well .
7 Researchers have to monitor not only the actions and behaviour of the group members , but also their own activities , and they must cultivate self-criticism and self-awareness .
8 There remained only the horses and human muscle .
9 It was not only the tradesmen and merchants but the Lord Chancellor who opposed any bill which tried to remedy defects in the Lords ' Act .
10 Obedient reading of the Bible means that we do not read it selectively , choosing only the passages that reinforce our moods and temperaments .
11 To go home would have been to face not only the critics but the people who had helped .
12 ‘ Seeing only the whirlpools and counter-currents but not the progress of the long river of history only reveals the observer 's political short-sightedness . ’
13 Only the ones that play polo , ’ said Claudia without rancour .
14 This does n't protect the adventurers against any effects that they might suffer in the future , only the ones that currently affect them .
15 It 's only the ones that have nobody living
16 They were only the cases that have been uncovered .
17 There was row upon row of rooms and carpeted corridors , revealed by their tensely-held torches , the ghostly yellow pools of light allowing only the objects that slid in and out of them to be examined .
18 It is not only the Indians that divide life into two compartments but also the Buddhists .
19 No , no , no , only the medicines and different pills and different things , you know , that these women used to do to their selves .
20 Truly I make but a stammering companion , I have no graces , and as for the wit you may have perceived in me when we met , you saw , you must have seen , only the glimmerings and glister of your own brilliance refracted from the lumpen surface of a dead Moon .
21 Efforts will continue to be made to set free Brightness as well as all the other whales and dolphins condemned to a life in which they can not experience the mental stimulation that only the challenges and joys of life in the open ocean can provide .
22 and it 's , no but here it 's only the holidays that really matter , if it was n't for the holidays I really would n't bother because here it really is so plotted out is n't it ?
23 The development of a number of root definitions and associated models will be enlightening ; however , if time is a constraint then it may be necessary to be more selective and pursue only the viewpoints that are most relevant , such as those of the main client or other influential persons , ie people whose agreement may be needed before changes can be implemented .
24 Only the Communists and radicals , who had been outlawed in pre-1967 days , had the established underground networks through which to operate .
25 In summary , it was concluded from the initial examination of the FAOR proposals that the development of a global user requirement for the introduction of either computerised indexing and storage systems was not appropriate , or possible , at that time , and it was necessary to take an evolutionary bottom-up approach that recognised not only the limitations and costs of the current market in software and equipment , but also the particular needs of individual functions .
26 In such cases as the United Reformed Church at Headingley Hill , Leeds , it has proved possible to retain not only the galleries and organ , but also the pulpit and rostrum arrangement at the west end .
27 That would have left only the Deanses and the club secretary , Alexander Moffat , on the board .
28 This is a haven of verbal pleasure which the teacher evidently shares , as she relishes not only the sounds and meanings of the poems , but the feel of the words on her tongue and her palate .
29 They say the distributorship situation will be resolved soon , ensuring that not only the basses but the new Wamp bass amps , and of course , the associated spares will be available in the UK .
30 This nest set up on the flat lands beyond the power stations on the south east coast will provide the evidence to Bill and his bird watching colleagues It 's not only the owls that fly at night , waders will feed at any time , but the rising tide will force them to leave the mud flats day or night
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