Example sentences of "[adv] only an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two whole racks of lamb cooked out to just pink perfection in under 15 minutes and gave a markedly superior eating quality , and a best method for roasting a 4lb boned lamb averaged out over all tests with remarkably only an 8 per cent weight loss . |
| 2 | They write on the blackboard steadily , with perhaps only an occasional brief explanation , developing the classical derivation of some fundamental relationship necessary to the understanding of the subject . |
| 3 | This discreteness is due to the need to fit a whole number of half wavelengths along the length of the string , for which there is obviously only an enumerable number of possibilities . |
| 4 | We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion . |
| 5 | He was proving himself to be not only an accurate witness to the times , but a respected one , too . |
| 6 | The brain is not only an electrical machine , it also has a physical and chemical structure and these too are now being monitored in the living brain . |
| 7 | Additionally for Wilde , perverse desire is not only an agency of displacement , it is partly constituted by that displacement and the transgressive aesthetic which informs it . |
| 8 | For those with a taste for the unusual and exotic , Pavilions in Peril remains not only an engaging armchair read , but an explorer 's guide to a forgotten world of follies and garden temples . |
| 9 | In other war films , however , the purpose is revealed by insistent preachiness , as in Reach for the Sky ( 1956 ) , where the story of Douglas Bader , the determined pilot who , despite losing both his legs in an accident , went on to command the air force during the Battle of Britain , is told as a story that ‘ was not only an example to those in war but is now a source of inspiration to many in peace . ’ |
| 10 | Roberto Baggio , the new ‘ wonder boy ’ of Italian soccer , is not only an outrageously talented footballer , but he is also intelligent and responsible , a player who on his own initiative has made a series of public anti-violence appeals . |
| 11 | Though not as obsessive as Bacon , Hobbes shares not only an interest in the classifications of areas of study , but also something of the actual divisions . |
| 12 | But it is not only an abstract thing . |
| 13 | He wanted not only an on-screen separating , but one off to match . |
| 14 | The possibility of a child being born with a handicap is not only an emotional worry but caring for the child in the future will be expensive . |
| 15 | We may see in this encouragement of scholars not only an attempt to improve the status of the realm , but a genuine curiosity for learning on the part of Charles himself . |
| 16 | Creating synthetic chemical structures that can reproduce themselves represents not only an intriguing intellectual challenge , but also a possible way of illuminating one of the most basic processes of a living cell . |
| 17 | His observations made in 1695 are not only an important source of early medicine ( and therefore of world significance ) but are also a vital source of Hebridean social history . |
| 18 | There is no net increase in the number of elements activated by a given stimulus but the circles have been moved apart , indicating not only an increase in the number of unique elements activated by a stimulus but a corresponding decrease in the number of common elements activated . |
| 19 | Behind this privileging of popular culture lies not only an identification with the oppressed masses , but also a sense that Latin-American reality is radically different from that of the developed , industrial West , as well as a search for an identity whose roots are to be found in Latin America itself . |
| 20 | He was also a minor landed gentleman , a circumstance which gave Burn not only an entry to society , but a profound understanding of his clients : as Donaldson recalled , ‘ no-one could tell with greater spirit many a good story about the auld Scots lairds and their vagaries . ’ |
| 21 | If you are confident that you can show that your contract has been broken , you might wish to pursue not only an unfair dismissal complaint , but also a claim in respect of breach of your contract . |
| 22 | David Jack was not only an elegant inside-forward , he was an elegant man , always impeccably dressed , his main weakness being cigarettes . |
| 23 | This occasion certainly proved that ‘ the gift of the gab ’ was not only an asset , it was an essential for an up-and-coming professional broadcaster . |
| 24 | As an educational tool , simulation is not only an invaluable training aid for personnel who may one day be confronted with a real situation but is sometimes the only method for dealing with improbable but possible events . |
| 25 | Someone at Head Office needs to do a quick bit of thinking here : to couple an outstanding Appalachian Spring with this twaddle is not only an insult to Dennis Russell Davies and his superb musicians , but also to the prospective purchaser of this disc . |
| 26 | These rights included not only an ability to continue using the property as before but also the right to rebuild or extend it , provided the original building was not exceeded by more than ten per cent . |
| 27 | In Saudi Arabia foreigners need not only an entry visa but an exit visa as well . |
| 28 | He sees too that the other should from the first have known better , as he himself should ( he has come to understand that in retrospect ) , and therefore judges that they both made not only an unlucky but a bad choice . |
| 29 | Any enquiry into what is in the minds of others is not only an exploration of what is consciously expressed by people but is also about interpreting what is unconsciously believed . |
| 30 | This being so , the experience of older people is not only an invaluable and irreplaceable source of history , it is an essential element of counselling empathy . |