Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very strange to find , after wearing thick overcoats in Peking only a few weeks ago , that we are in the middle of hot summer weather ( by British standards ) here . |
| 2 | Will insists , downing tea in quantities only a survivor of the planet SquatWorld could manage . |
| 3 | With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film . |
| 4 | At Ten Bel , Geminis provides the best of both worlds — an ideal environment for a relaxing holiday , with the lively activities of Drago only a moment 's walk away . |
| 5 | Klopf accuses artificial intelligence researchers of building only the top ( logical , verbal ) storey of a 1000-storey building . |
| 6 | He had become a legend and he ensured he got the kind of treatment only a legend deserved . |
| 7 | When ‘ untreated ’ timber ( ie , wood which has not been impregnated with preservative ) is built into solid walls , it has no protection from dampness in the wall and it is common for joist-ends to be shielded by a skin of brickwork only a half-a-brick thick ( Fig 31 ) . |
| 8 | The risk was undoubtedly greatest for those living closest to the plant , particularly in the village of Seascale only a mile away . |
| 9 | Such a move offered the possibility of a major confrontation between executive and legislature over the contentious issue of abortion only a year before the 1992 presidential elections . |
| 10 | When work is complete on a range of entries only the text of the latest version of a new or changed entry is transferred to the main archive . |
| 11 | In the decades before Emancipation only a few isolated individuals had carried dissent to the point of revolutionary commitment . |
| 12 | But of Hippys ' work on Italy only a few quotations survive , and these are about foundation myths of places , or physical curiosities . |
| 13 | It was the sort of brooch only a very little boy could admire . |
| 14 | If you think that sounds like the sort of luxury only the likes of Joan Collins would have in her bathroom , you 'd be wrong . |
| 15 | By contrast , the legends concerning Atlantis and the others refer to a period of time only a few thousand years ago . |
| 16 | J Wood in the Custom House and Silvertown Ward expressed the need to administer effectively the 1918 Education Act , 1918 Maternity Act , and the 1919 Housing and Town Planning Act : ‘ In a period of reconstruction only a majority of conscious Socialist and labour men and women on the council will have the determination to make West Ham a healthier , cleaner , more sanitary town to live in ’ . |
| 17 | While all kadis were appointed by the state and received allowances , for example , certainly in the period under review only the most important of the muftis received official appointments or salaries ; and indeed , even the salary of the Mufti of Istanbul , until the very end of the period , was considerably smaller than the allowances ( to say nothing of the income ) of a number of kadis over whom he clearly took precedence , the pattern possibly having been established by the perhaps consciously modest demands made by Fahreddin Acemi . |
| 18 | He informs his head of security only a few minutes before he wants to go somewhere , not trusting even him . |
| 19 | allocated in August 1991 and another £50,000 in loans only a week or so ago . |
| 20 | A reformed chocoholic and one who turned her back on butter only a few months ago , I was interested to see if my attempts to live more healthily had borne fruit . |
| 21 | Signal averaging is a technique used to decrease random noise in the amplified ECG in order to enhance the detection of signals only a few microvolts in amplitude . |
| 22 | The finished clothes were delivered to the hotel on her last morning in Paris only an hour before Bob Storrington was due to collect her for lunch . |
| 23 | ‘ I gave twenty quid to Oxfam only the other day , ’ said Emma . |
| 24 | Of the many species of Dictyonema only a few have a colony as regular in shape as this one , which can grow to a length of more than 20 cm . |
| 25 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |
| 26 | She raked and kept the gravel sweep as meticulously as she kept her house — a convenient house , its well of water only a field distant . |
| 27 | These rubber Hammers failed to respond even when Allen marked his transfer from one club to the other with a spectacular , 27th minute shot that cancelled out Wise 's rather streaky opening goal for Chelsea only a minute earlier . |
| 28 | Economic pressures producing changes in family structure may , for example , influence the higher-order structure of society only a generation or two later . |
| 29 | Within a couple of years only a few hundred of them survived . |
| 30 | Historians might say that in the twentieth century in Britain only the reforming administrations of 1906 and 1945 provided a major change in direction to be followed by administrations which consolidated the changes . |