Only the heavy bones of the oxen kept them anchored.

Only when the newest Mr. America or Mr. Universe discovers them and puts them into practice are we reacquainted with them and once again see how effective they really are.

Only 8% of the worries had behind them real causes which demanded attention.

Only too often, however, you have the feeling that you are sitting in a room with some of the instruments lined up on one wall to your left and others facing them on the wall to your right.

Only context could differentiate them.

Only two weeks after the agreement, the Soviets had removed the missile systems and their support equipment, loading them onto eight Soviet ships from November 5 – 9.

It included a number of cover songs, among them the 1966 Beach Boys hit " God Only Knows ".

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

While City Streets and other pre-WWII crime melodramas such as Fury ( 1936 ) and You Only Live Once ( 1937 ), both directed by Fritz Lang, are categorized as full-fledged noir in Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward's film noir encyclopedia, other critics tend to describe them as " proto-noir " or in similar terms.

Only a few fans could afford more professional printers, or the time it took them to print, until photocopying became cheap and ubiquitous in the 1970s.

Only about seventy people remained in the town, most of them religious, people without family or belonging to the Genoese trader colony ( see list in ).

Only the mummy of Khufu can save them.

Only those whose persistent pride prevents them from sincere repentance will remain forever in Hell.

Only a dozen or so were taken by British Columbian stations, nearly all of them in 1953 at Coal Harbour.

Only they are not true for me to live in them ...

Only one of them is stable and one has half-life exceeding 10 < sup > 14 </ sup > years ; the most stable other indium isotope is indium-111, which has half-life of approximately 2. 8 days.

Only a few local authorities have implemented the regulations, one of them being Oxford City Council.

Only a few of them remain in service today.

Only Jainas have been absolutely unwilling to allow such ideas to penetrate their community, despite the fact that there must have been tremendous amount of social pressure on them to do so.

Only six episodes of the show were made, and it was cancelled after only four of them had aired.

Only when some of these presuppositions are not necessarily agreed to by the person who is asked the question does the argument containing them become fallacious.

Only after we have been integrated within the environment so as to perceive objects as such can we turn our attention toward particular objects within the landscape so as to define them more clearly.

Only those who are anointed partake as the emblems are passed around the room to all who are present.

Only Manchus belonging to the Upper Three Banners, and selected Han Chinese who had passed the highest level of martial exams were qualified to serve as the emperor's personal bodyguards.

Only 18 people passed the impact zone through the available stairway and left the South Tower safely before it collapsed.

Only the first and last were spent at the school with the other three being passed at sea.

Only five students remained in the course at the end of the year and of the five, only two passed the AP Calculus exam.

Only four comets in the previous century had passed closer.

Only six days later, the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was passed, banning Jews from government jobs.

Only about ten to twenty percent of the organism ’ s energy is generally passed to the next organism.

Only German Shepherds that had passed a Schutzhund test or a herding test were allowed to breed and thus have their progeny registered as German Shepherd Dogs.

Only students who have passed at least two years of studies are considered for admission.

Only 15 private member's bills or private senator's bills introduced into the Australian Parliament since 1901 have been passed into law.

Only once a person has passed all these training stages they will be allowed to control on their possessions.

Only those who have passed the Ateneo College Entrance Test ( ACET ) and are accepted into the Loyola Schools of the Ateneo de Manila University will be considered for admission.

Only two national unions affiliated with the AFL at its founding openly included women, and others passed by-laws barring women ’ s membership entirely.

Soon afterwards he passed the controversial Sinhala Only Act, which led to communal clashes in 1958.

Only six acts have been passed.

** the Official Language Act No. 33 of 1956 ( Ceylon ), commonly known as the Sinhala Only Act, passed in Ceylon in 1956 to replacing English with Sinhala as the official language of the country

Only in 1876, twenty years after the Wensleydale case, was the Appellate Jurisdiction Act passed, authorising the appointment of two Lords of Appeal in Ordinary ( commonly called Law Lords ) to sit in the House of Lords as barons.

Only the approximate course of the wall is known: it began at the Church of St. Anthony at the Golden Horn, near the modern Atatürk Bridge, ran southwest and then southwards, passed east of the great open cisterns of Mocius and Aspar, and ended near the Church of the Theotokos of the Rhabdos on the Propontis coast, somewhere between the later sea gates of St. Aemilianus and Psamathos.

Only kicked or passed balls touching the slack nets behind the goalposts ( which were only about half of the traditional width ) are ruled dead at that point.

Only after assuring that he was dead did the enemies dare to come forward and severed his head, which was passed around for all to see.

Only a fortnight later, he passed it on to the Ingelheim pharmaceutical firm C. H. Boehringer Sohn.

Only one stellar occultation by Alkeste has been observed, when the asteroid passed in front of the third magnitude star Beta Virginis on June 24, 2003.

Only HMS Agincourt remained apart from the battle entirely, passing up the Dutch line at extreme range ; one anecdotal account reports that on board Agincourt a stray shot passed high over the deck and an officer was seen to flinch, drawing a scornful call from the crew that " There is no danger yet, Sir ".