Example sentences of "only [adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note : The only technical information needed in the above calculation is the compound interest factors of 5 per cent and 9 per cent over 30 years , and this is available in every good bookshop or library . |
| 2 | He was not the only deaf person connected with the legal profession for Wakefield , Yorkshire , had a fully practising solicitor , Gerald Smith , of the firm Beaumont , Smith and Beaumont , who had been educated at the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , Doncaster . |
| 3 | For them this front and these guns are the only possible ones indicated by the definite articles . |
| 4 | Where the only possible error consists of choosing the item with the greater amount , children may simply appear to treat less as ‘ more ’ . |
| 5 | Of all that she had learned that afternoon , the only possible hope lay in trying to establish the real identity of the woman calling herself Delia Forbes . |
| 6 | She sounded tired but , though her breathing was laboured and painful it seemed to Creggan now that her voice was the only friendly thing left in his world . |
| 7 | Section Eleven of the Local Government Act , 1966 , provides for the only specific grant paid to local authorities solely because of the presence of ‘ New Commonwealth ’ immigrants in their areas . |
| 8 | T n tracts ; the only strong bands correspond to cleavage of the central TTGCA . |
| 9 | And yet religion seems to have been the only respectable profession open to a woman other than marriage and child-bearing . |
| 10 | Frankly admitting that ‘ parliament is no longer the centre of power that it was ’ , he points out that the only political orator left in France is Le Pen , who is not a deputé . |
| 11 | You do not need to invest in technology to comply with the quality standards , but they concede that a computerised accounts system is really the only cost-effective way to deal with the financial management requirements . |
| 12 | The first proper historical evaluation of the subject to have been made in the United States , the exhibition has been organised by curator Elizabeth Armstrong and her associate , Joan Rothfuss , and will be seen at the Whitney Museum of American Art ( 16 July-3 October ) , Chicago 's Museum of Contemporary Art ( 13 November-16 January 1994 ) , the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts , Columbus OH ( 18 February-17 April 1994 ) , the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ( 12 May-24 July 1994 ) and the Fundacio Antoni Tapies , Barcelona ( 17 November1994–12 January 1995 ) , the only European venue confirmed for this important exhibition of predominantly European material , although Armstrong told The Art Newspaper that she expects to add at least two further venues in Europe , one of which may be in London . |
| 13 | In Europe , blue tits collect it from the crown imperial fritillary , the only European plant known to be pollinated by a bird . |
| 14 | Module headers are the key feature of LIFESPAN operation and the only direct requirement placed on the software it stores . |
| 15 | The Royal Corinthian Yacht Club , Burnham-on-Crouch , Essex ( 1931 ) , established his modernist reputation , being the only British building included in the exhibition ‘ The International Style ’ at the Museum of Modern Art , New York , in 1932 . |
| 16 | A recent cityscape by Kitaj was bought by one of a party of twenty-five members of the Tate Gallery 's Patrons of New Art , virtually the only British visitors to come to the fair . |
| 17 | THE mother of the only British soldier to die in the Bosnian conflict will receive a posthumous United Nations medal on his behalf tomorrow . |
| 18 | Teessider Anthony Brannen , the only British decathlete selected for the world championships in Tokyo last year , will be making his debut in the early season competition as an adopted Staffordshire athlete . |
| 19 | They are the only British side left in Europe after Englishman Mark Hateley and lethal Scot Ally McCoist KO 'd Leeds with the goals which gave Rangers a 4–2 second-round aggregate win . |
| 20 | He was the only British politician invited to the all-day session . |
| 21 | Awarded a special Jury Prize at Cannes ( and the only British entry shown in competition ) , HIDDEN AGENDA marks the return of one of Britain 's most radical and compromising directors . |
| 22 | Yet this has not been the only old law turned to by the police . |
| 23 | The hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) was the only hon. Member to refer to recommendation ( ix ) . |
| 24 | The columnist Westbrook Pegler must have approved that passage , for he wrote : ‘ The only sensible way to deal with them is to make membership in Communist organizations a capital offence and shoot or otherwise put to death all persons convicted of such . ’ |
| 25 | The distinctive deep chin cowling , a feature of the PR.XI , along with the enlarged oil tank beneath has been retained in this faithful rebuild and just about the only non-authentic concession made in the rebuild has been the fitting of a standard armour plated framed windscreen instead of the one piece wrap-around frameless example , the latter giving the pilot a somewhat distorted view from the cockpit . |
| 26 | Werder Bremen , the only German club left in European competition this season , beat Turkey 's Galatasaray 2–1 after being 1–0 down until 12 minutes from time . |
| 27 | Given the social determination of the concept of a person and the absence of unanimity in the the outcome of moral deliberation , the only proper course seems to be to endorse constitutional arrangements neutral between conceptions of the good in order to enable all individuals to develop and pursue their own conception of the good . |
| 28 | The only proper way to arrive at sustainable definitions of good educational practice is by sharing and analysing ideas and values , marshalling and examining evidence , and applying both processes to the task of formulating principles . |
| 29 | His only personal enthusiasm to feature in the records is a love of horses . |
| 30 | The only Canadian station to vie with the greatest American examples was the remarkable Toronto Union station built between 1915 and 1930 with what one writer called a ‘ blessed sense of civic excess ‘ . |