Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] only [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other extreme , special educational needs — with only a third as many courses as social issues — accounted for slightly more teacher-days , although still only 11 per cent of the total time . |
| 2 | As more and more of the presented word is heard , the size of this cohort will shrink , until eventually only one word detector remains activated . |
| 3 | Founded in 1878 , the CBS was one of a network of societies which in those days provided not only private financial insurance against adversity but social fellowship in regional lodges , where members referred to themselves as " brothers " . |
| 4 | If even only some of these criticisms were true , then national leadership in the agricultural sphere , and above all the subjugation of the Famine , was in precarious hands . |
| 5 | Having become interested in aviation as a teenager , he worked his way up from the workshop floor and designed his first glider in 1924 while still only eighteen , following this with his first powered aircraft , the VVA–3 , two years later . |
| 6 | The Act imposed penalties for neglect of children , whereas previously only wilful cruelty had been penalized . |
| 7 | This is mental imagery , though not only visual , and it leads to and encourages a reconstruction of events and a process of creativity . |
| 8 | The fact , therefore , that much of art education is concerned with a direct pupil/teacher interaction , in which informal discussions about problems , and their possible resolution , establishes a crucial but essentially informal kind of diagnostic assessment , means that many art teachers view any externally imposed structure upon this process as not only irrelevant , but potentially damaging to that very quality of personal involvement and development that characterizes good work . |
| 9 | Perhaps a more apt title would be the Demolition Years , as not only whole industries , jobs and homes were destroyed , but also an attempt was made to change our whole way of life . |
| 10 | At a time such as now , when vocationalism is fashionable , schools in particular but colleges also to some extent , will be characterised as not only different from industry but also inferior because of the academic or rarefied nature of much of their work . |
| 11 | Most cranes lay two heavily marked eggs which hatch two days apart , though usually only one chick survives . |
| 12 | But somehow the little orphan survived the ordeal , as she also later survived the farce of being crated up and flown to the Mara game reserve when still only six months old , to be shown to the Pope . |
| 13 | Walter Geikie was born on 9th November 1795 in Edinburgh , the eldest son of Archibald Geikie , a pharmacist by occupation but a philosopher by inclination , and when still only two years old , contracted a ‘ brain fever ’ ( probably meningitis ) which left him deaf for life . |
| 14 | Polish housewives no longer have to spend two hours a day in queues , and they can choose between 15 brands of mineral water , when once only one diesel-flavoured Polish brand was on offer . |
| 15 | At Lyons , the bridge over the Rhone collapsed from the weight of the men trying to cross — though fortunately only two were drowned . |
| 16 | As yet only two parts of the continuing education programme are compulsory , those being : ‘ Advice to Counsel ’ and Advocacy . |
| 17 | Like the regulationist school , however , this view of long waves would stress that the fifth wave is as yet only embryonic and its form is still to be determined . |
| 18 | The idea , as yet only half formed , seemed preposterous … and yet … it would be interesting to know if he had learned something of which she was unaware . |