Example sentences of "only [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hot/cold opposition is also used to classify foods , plants , remedies and even pharmaceutical drugs which are not only widely available in most Central American street markets but are also used by some traditional healers and midwives . |
| 2 | However , the participant observation research showed that , despite ‘ common sense ’ and the media suggesting to the contrary , these primary clues were only rarely sufficient in themselves to produce a clear and unambiguous decision that a child had been abused . |
| 3 | Inflation is not only economically debilitating ; it is also cruelly unfair . |
| 4 | We need people who are not only economically literate , but politically and socially literate , well informed about and sensitive to crucial social and moral issues ; we must be developing a society whose members are aware and tolerant of others and manifest concern for their welfare . |
| 5 | If he thinks that he can come back to the House , whatever the supine press may say , and present it as a triumph for Britain that he has managed to prevent those provisions from being applied in this country , although they are being applied everywhere else , he shows that the Government are not only economically bankrupt but bankrupt of values . |
| 6 | So far the type of situation in which salt fingers occur has been specified in only rather general terms . |
| 7 | My only rather weighty problem is the fact that I speak very little French though I am learning , both at French lessons and at my Medau classes . |
| 8 | They thus occupy a rather special place in the spectrum of infectious human disease , since , without being able to find the germ responsible , it is not only rather difficult to be sure that the disease is present in the first place , but , having given a treatment for which there can be no de finite evidence of efficacy , since no organism has been eliminated , it can be very difficult to tell whether the infection has resolved or even whether the patient is better . |
| 9 | The rationale for not keeping creditors accounts is not only rather shortsighted ( because you might lose the goodwill of your suppliers ) but it does not apply to debtors accounts — it is for certain that you will want to know precisely who owes you money and how much they owe you . |
| 10 | After a generation in which we can detect only rather humdrum work in the Kerameikos , the Athenians established their supremacy in the second quarter of the century . |
| 11 | Put another way , and in Freud 's own words , we can say that ‘ the superego is stunted in its strength and growth if the surmounting of the Oedipus complex is only incompletely successful . ’ |
| 12 | Hence the early medieval kingdom was not only fundamentally different from the tax-based Roman Empire , but inherently weak and unstable . |
| 13 | The modernisation of the Blackpool fleet by the acquisition of 116 streamlined cars between 1933 and 1939 , left the Standards looking decidedly old-fashioned , although they were only circa ten years old by then . |
| 14 | You will , I am sure , appreciate that now that the contract for the Ski Centre is subject to Competitive Tender , only commercially sound concessions can be offered to groups such as the Scottish Universities . |
| 15 | It was not only intensely irritating , but it also frightened many women off , and made the normal process of two people getting to know one another quite impossible . |
| 16 | Emma Watt did not look shocked , but only tremendously sad . |
| 17 | Only slowly revolving tyres will contact the road for long enough to generate sufficient drive . |
| 18 | Paternalist assumptions were an aspect of the deeply entrenched feeling , which time and education were only slowly eroding , that legitimate rulers were in some sense the agents of God . |
| 19 | But a third layer was even more removed from the formal standards , the popular morality of the vast majority , which was no less strict for being only loosely Christian in a formal sense . |
| 20 | By contrast jadeite contains plenty of alumina and soda , only weakly present in nephrite . |
| 21 | Losers will be those groups whose incomes rise less rapidly than the general price level : examples include workers who are not represented by unions or who are only weakly unionised but face strong employer resistance to wage claims . |
| 22 | These results are only weakly dependent on |
| 23 | When she wrote that Christmas message the Queen was not only acutely aware that her daughter 's divorce was looming , but also that the marriages of Charles and Andrew had failed miserably . |
| 24 | Although the Eleventh and Seventh armies in the Russian centre made only little immediate headway , in the north General Kaledin 's Eighth Army advanced farther than 16km/10mls along a 48-km/ 30-ml front . |
| 25 | Duck is only uniformly brownish duck with a pale ( as distinct from white ) cheek , except for maritime Common Scoter ( p. 63 ) , which has no white wing-bar Feeds by up-ending as well as diving . |
| 26 | There are still two towns — in effect , however , the new Aberdeen has all but completely superseded Old Aberdeen , which now exists only in the way many international cities have a Latin Quarter or a Chinatown , only somewhat smaller and — as becomes all Aberdonians and most east-coast Scots — very discreet . |
| 27 | In this room lived a family of three , Mrs Rosin , her son Joseph , and her daughter Gertie , an unfortunate trio , for all were not only terribly poor — but dumb . |
| 28 | Simplicity , however — at least the sort that scores in argument or fiction — can be a highly achieved state of mind , ‘ costing not less than everything ’ , and only highly complex beings arrive at it at all , or need to seek it out . |
| 29 | Doubt in such a case is not only highly understandable , it is even a mark of spiritual and intellectual sensitivity to error ; for their picture is not of God but an idol . |
| 30 | As such , the experience of beauty is not only highly motivational , setting in train a search for more similar experiences , it also establishes a model for effective learning . |