Example sentences of "[be] only [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warfarin was started and transcranial doppler recordings were repeated 1 month later ; he had had only one transient ischaemic attack in the interim , when his international normalised ratio had been only 1.3 . |
| 2 | Although the discontinuity in economic policy from the Heath Cabinet ( 1972 — 4 ) is remarkable , there has been only one dissenting resignation from her Cabinet , partly on grounds of her style as well as policy ( that of Mr Heseltine over Westland in January 1986 ) . |
| 3 | There has been only one Nobel prize in embryology . |
| 4 | Had there been only one man in the carriage with the woman the explanation would have been obvious . |
| 5 | Indeed , in the last two decades there has been only one event of sufficient gravity to create stunned , almost disbelieving debate among past and present Baldersdale folk — Hannah Hauxwell herself . |
| 6 | No amount of reflection on first principles will stop a Christian from assuming that the morality demanded of women , which in Islam he judges to be imposed by the physically stronger sex in its own interests , is in his own religion true to the equality of the sexes before God ; not until women become conscious of and vocal about their own interests does he appreciate that the difference from Islam has from the very first been only one of degree . |
| 7 | To the best of my knowledge there has been only one sustained examination of mass production undertaken by someone using a psychoanalytic perspective . |
| 8 | And people stressing a cost factor as important were relatively likely to say they had had at least some choice between different credit arrangements , whereas people stressing convenience were relatively likely to say there had been only one possibility ( though differences were small ) . |
| 9 | One of the most infuriating habits of the scientifically illiterate is to talk of the ‘ ice age ’ as if there had been only one . |
| 10 | The computer system at the Budapest Stock Exchange has now been up and running for about two weeks , and according to chief system analyst Andrei Bagi , there has been only one minor teething problem . |
| 11 | Kennan met MacArthur for lunch on 1 March ; MacArthur stated that there had previously been only one successful military occupation in history and this had been Julius Caesar 's achievement in the subjugated barbarian provinces . |
| 12 | His wife was named Mary and there appears to have been only one surviving child , a daughter . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that there have been many reports describing the central effects of neuropeptides on gastric and pancreatic secretion , there has been only one previous report of the effects of a centrally acting peptide on biliary secretion . |
| 14 | Apart from our own prospective studies there seems to have been only one other approach to rectal mucosa in gluten sensitivity based on a retrospective analysis of intraepithelial lymphocytes material obtained 25 years previously . |
| 15 | There has been only one report that has identified epoxide hydrolase in colonic carcinomas , by western blot analysis . |
| 16 | There had been only one obvious course of action — and that had been to raise the necessary sums by selling the family estate . |
| 17 | There had been only one moment to cause her any undue alarm . |
| 18 | Clark revealed that there has been only one official bid for Keane since the end of the season — a £3.5 million verbal offer from Rovers which Blackburn 's chairman Robert Corr subsequently confirmed in writing to Forest chairman Fred Reacher . |
| 19 | Opposition MPs claimed that there had been only one small bookmaker in favour and that everyone else had either objected or been neutral . |
| 20 | Had the attendance of the third party been only two , the Treasurer would have eaten his half-cake at that party alone . |
| 21 | Up to the start of the 1970s , there had really been only two approaches : Idealism and Realism . |
| 22 | If there had been only two men holding Alison in the room , this meant that they 'd left her unguarded and she 'd be able to slip away . |
| 23 | But she had been only two years senior to Harriet . |
| 24 | But Zosie had been only seventeen . |
| 25 | And that in modernity ( probably Giddens is clearest in this statement ) social actors can take cognizance of , and reflect rationally on , rules that had previously been only implicit for them . |
| 26 | His mother 's death was the first he had been intimately concerned with — his father 's hardly counted , because Peter had been only thirteen at the time . |
| 27 | She had been only 13 years old when the event occurred that shattered her world . |
| 28 | It was a central plank of the Griffiths recommendations , and the evidence referred to earlier in the chapter indicates that success has been only fitful and Scattered . |
| 29 | Apart from a glass of lager at dinner she had been drinking only fruit juices , while Rune 's own consumption of lager had been only moderate , not enough to have much effect on a man of such highly tuned physique , she comforted herself . |
| 30 | That sighting had been only twelve miles south of this crossroads , yet now there was no sign of any Frenchmen . |