Example sentences of "only the [adj] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the poor will face the bailiffs . |
| 2 | Only the affluent could afford to take vacations or to travel abroad because holidays with pay were not mandatory in the 1920s . |
| 3 | No spark of humour ( even of sanity ) was allowed to invade the hallowed Mixture as Before : Beauty , Knitting , Fashion , Cookery , Short Story , in embalmed vacuity , delivered from that pinnacle of self-righteousness which only the mediocre could sustain . |
| 4 | If they have money , they can go into private homes or villages where only the elderly can live . |
| 5 | When the Malay leaders of Malaysia assert that the Malays are ‘ bumiputras ’ , sons of the soil , and therefore to be accorded privileges as against the Chinese and Indian Malaysians , only the unkind would point out that the Malays were also immigrants from an earlier period , and that no-one has paid attention to the claims of the real indigenous peoples , the Dayak and other tribes of the forestland . |
| 6 | Only the best will do , in everything from personnel through equipment and working practices . |
| 7 | And for people for whom only the best will do , the magnificent Eclipse has everything … from hob light to an automatic oven timer . |
| 8 | Affluent , up-market , very fashionable : only the best will do . |
| 9 | But if this were to happen , only the rich would benefit . |
| 10 | There was little social justice in a system whereby simony could dictate the duration of one 's time in purgatory ; was it right that only the rich could secure such release ? |
| 11 | Hot cross buns , Simnel cake and Easter biscuits ( see recipes on page 60 ) contain currants and mixed spices that have been eaten at Lent since Elizabethan times , although their use goes back to the Middle Ages when only the rich could afford spice . |
| 12 | Only the rich can ski in Switzerland which makes for a degree of civilisation neighbours ca n't match . |
| 13 | Contrary to popular belief , recent studies reveal that wood ( especially firewood in the shape of logs rather than small twigs and branches ) has become so scarce that in many villages only the rich can afford to buy it . |
| 14 | Suppose everyone buys meals , but only the rich can afford to go to the cinema . |
| 15 | But the point is what we 're being told is effectively that only the rich can have second marriages , that 's what this Child Support Act brings about . |
| 16 | Indeed , if tennis was just the French Open , only the strong would take it up , and even then , many would n't survive . |
| 17 | Only the strong will survive . |
| 18 | Certainly , but knowing that captains had to make official reports on the umpires after each match , only the foolhardy would go against such an influential skipper , who had played six times for the Gentlemen against the Players . |
| 19 | Subsequently only the latter could pay to have complicated machinery repaired . |
| 20 | He was enthralled by the entire proceeding and remarked that only the English could make a contest between two crews which would not rank in the World 's top 10 into a bigger spectacle than the Olympic final . |
| 21 | The road wound gradually upwards towards the Downs — only the English could call uplands downs — until I was clear of the motorways which cut through Kent like the prongs of a carving fork stabbing at France . |
| 22 | Whether the men of the Eighties want to risk their ageing bodies against such threats , only the Nineties will reveal . |
| 23 | It would be wrong to assert that Ayrshire 's claim to Old King Cole of the nursery rhyme can be substantiated beyond reasonable doubt but only the foolish would ridicule the ancient legend . |
| 24 | Only the bravest would break in , light fires on the tile floors . |
| 25 | They require a special new social psychology for , as Durkheim circuitously asserted , only the social can explain the social . |
| 26 | Only the healthiest will get it , the agency says . |
| 27 | Shipbuilding was in crisis , and it was clear that only the fittest could survive . |
| 28 | If only the British would pull their socks up things would be different . |
| 29 | Only the better-off could afford to travel at more than a walking pace in eighteenth-century England — unless , that is , they had access to a riding horse . |
| 30 | Most important of all , diplomacy remained an expensive and , except in the highest ranks , underpaid profession , one which only the well-to-do could hope to enter . |