Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How thrilled the girl had been to be going to the Holy City , how lovely she had looked in a jacket of scarlet silk , a birthday present given only the day before by Mrs Browning , how she had glowed and shivered with anticipation … |
| 2 | There must be very few bird reserves situated only a few minutes ' walk from the centre of a town which turn out to be as rewarding as Radipole Lake , another RSPB reserve . |
| 3 | On most days the official programme occupied only the evenings so that day time was available for sightseeing . |
| 4 | Had Purcell composed only the string parts , leaving the trumpet parts to be added later ? |
| 5 | The last few feet required only a very slight rearward movement of the yoke to arrest the sink , and she touched with just one stiff-legged little bounce . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is fortunate that the fossil record preserved only a fraction of the truly stupendous total number of species that must have lived since the Cambrian , for otherwise the scientists ' task to catalogue 600 million years of life would be an impossible one . |
| 7 | The clash marked only the second occasion in 70 years on which police had opened fire on a white crowd . |
| 8 | Despite the overall improvement in both groups , one patient on elemental diet and two on prednisolone achieved only a partial remission at four weeks . |
| 9 | But to many of the naturalists actually involved , the new discoveries required only a revision of traditional ideas rather than a revolution . |
| 10 | Subscribers to the service required only a cable line , an amplifier , a pair of speakers and a computer pad , on which to tap out the number of their choice . |
| 11 | Opaque scummy floods lapped only a metre below her feet ; a foul smell made her nauseous . |
| 12 | A dense darkness you could touch , the whirring din of the coal-cutting machine , throwing into the air black dust so thick that the light beams from the miners ’ lamps could only shine into it a few inches — the impression of numberless , short pit props placed only a foot or two apart , to support above them a mile 's weight of rock and earth ceiling — all this in the stifling heat . |
| 13 | The assumption that the rate of technical advance is exogenous has meant that tax policy affected only the steady-state levels of the capital-labour ratio , wages , etc . |
| 14 | This has given them a movie picture of the structural changes , built up from snapshots taken only a few seconds apart . |
| 15 | ‘ I think that the young painters are more intelligent than the others , the old ones can see in me only a disastrous rival ’ , he said to his son in a letter written only a few days before his death . |
| 16 | It was also recognised that there were patients whose language disorder affected only the processing of written language ( reading and writing ) and others where it was only the processing of spoken language that was impaired . |
| 17 | Through a ‘ deal ’ with Keynes at the Treasury , the financial implications of the report involved only an extra 100 million per annum from central government , far less than Beveridge himself had initially estimated . |
| 18 | The task is to determine what we can know about the meaning and context of an utterance given only the knowledge that the utterance has occurred … |
| 19 | White Doves is a Victorian terraced house situated only a few minutes from the famous Minster , in a quiet cul-de-sac . |
| 20 | The authorities approached the crisis cautiously ; in Suffolk the dukes arrested only the four principal offenders , and even they were pardoned when they were brought before the Star Chamber ( 66 , pp.115–16 ; 73 , pp.17–19 ) . |