Example sentences of "only [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But given the current mood of the Cabinet on public expenditure , only projects with a thumping and tangible economic return seem likely to get through . |
| 2 | ‘ The word ‘ void ’ only projects modern people 's irritation with anyone outside their own trap . |
| 3 | British Coal says that it is not worried by the change because these days it considers only projects which beat 8% by a decent margin . |
| 4 | Despite the persistence of huge environmental problems , Western donors and lending institutions are financing only projects that give a good return on investment and are expecting Eastern European countries to pay for much of the clean-up themselves . |
| 5 | Only crypts longitudinally sectioned and visible in their entire length were analysed . |
| 6 | An employment contract not only individualises what is essentially a class relation , but it individualises it in such a way that it expresses the dominance of the employers and their ideological grasp of the apparent relations between individuals . |
| 7 | On a number of occasions we can note that only coins of a relatively high denomination were minted and hence available for use . |
| 8 | Only reactions with negative 4G values can take place . |
| 9 | Only brunettes . ’ |
| 10 | Marjorie named her Lizzie ( she 'd always intended to call a daughter Lizzie but had produced only sons ! ) and the two forged a strong bond . |
| 11 | They did not often do so , and the women had no recorded daughters , only sons . |
| 12 | Only sons . |
| 13 | Or a card which contains only notes from Monk 's book The Sublime : a Study of Critical Theories in Eighteenth-Century England . |
| 14 | ‘ They 're only vagabonds , not real Romanies , ’ Farmer Yatton told Cheryl and Angela-when he came back to the farmhouse after seeing the gipsies off his land . |
| 15 | Only products specifically formulated for food industry use should be considered . |
| 16 | Only products containing blue asbestos , which is today used only in very small quantities , will now be affected . |
| 17 | Their Mostly Men range with its distinctive packaging is a superb collection of men only products . |
| 18 | But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions . |
| 19 | More voyages were made in 1577 and 1578 to bring ore back , but the whole enterprise collapsed when the ore turned out to be only pyrites . |
| 20 | Only VIPs and foreign diplomatic missions are given permission to utilise such dishes . |
| 21 | Against : Only scans up to 300 dpi resolution . |
| 22 | Against : Only scans up to 300 dpi resolution . |
| 23 | left hand right hand Only helices of the same hand entwine together . |
| 24 | It seems to me that these dreams were not only manifestations of hunger , but that they also evinced a desire to be normal and part of the natural world . |
| 25 | Operation only takes 10–15 minutes . |
| 26 | Like the cross-dressing explored in the last chapter , gender inversion remains controversial because it allegedly only inverts , rather than displaces , the gender binary . |
| 27 | In the immediate aftermath of the rioting the vignerons tried to excuse their actions by claiming that only houses which practised the blending of wines from the Midi had been molested , but there was no evidence to bear this out and even houses which had kept strictly to the noble blends had been attacked . |
| 28 | Only houses in the D-H bands face increases . |
| 29 | Not only houses had glass , of course . |
| 30 | In traditional society ( taken as ideal-type ) , there are only strategies . |