Example sentences of "[noun] has only " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the first retailer has only been in business a short time before the second retailer opens his store then it is unlikely that anything can be done . |
| 2 | The report also notes that owing to serious technical difficulties a new assembly building has only just been commissioned , which means that nuclear-warhead production has had to continue in old buildings which should have been closed down . |
| 3 | There is one remarkable difference between the two texts , and that is that where the responsa version has the composite wording lego concedique volo the digesta text has only concedi volo . |
| 4 | In polygamous monkeys each male has only a few females , but with species such as fur seals , the harems can be huge — up to one hundred females . |
| 5 | Step one : Sexing Sexes can be differentiated by the female having two spots above the anal fin , while the male has only one . |
| 6 | For reasons unknown this privilege has only recently been denied the young rugby followers of today . |
| 7 | But the story has only just begun . |
| 8 | H. raised his special grievance , but his complaint published in the Sunday Express has only added to the completeness of his downfall … |
| 9 | A Home Office spokesman said : ‘ The decision has only recently been made . |
| 10 | Since March 1985 a full written decision has only been provided at the request of either party . |
| 11 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 12 | If the golden age for Byrd 's motets has only just begun to dawn , then Byrd 's songs are still in their dark ages . |
| 13 | Already reeling from the loss of skipper Jonathan Davies , Griffiths was rocked by the news that Kevin Ellis has only a 50–50 chance of being fit . |
| 14 | If a buyer has only one option — to buy from the seller in question — then that seller is in a powerful position . |
| 15 | Up to now this demarcation of activities has only come about by delegation , no control system could enforce these roles . |
| 16 | Surprisingly , LA has only about half the police force of London for a city of ten million . |
| 17 | The PC has only a limited amount of memory in which to store all the possible patterns , and , in fact , can never ‘ remember ’ the wide variety of shapes that even a young child will have seen . |
| 18 | The options are provided in the menu : the user has only to select the option required by pressing the appropriate key ( following the question mark ) . |
| 19 | Even Mary Vetsera has only one wish , to be possessed by him , and is prepared to go to any lengths to achieve that end . |
| 20 | Among their other talismans is a little Buddha to which the Buddhist Society of Great Britain have apparently taken exception , although the Cross of Lourdes has only attracted five letters of complaint to the magazine since it first was advertised nine months ago . |
| 21 | A sentence has only one invariant meaning , or if it has more than one , as in the case of structural or lexical ambiguity , its meanings can be exactly specified . |
| 22 | However , if a sentence has only just been heard , subjects should be able to tell the difference between that sentence and all other sentences — even sentences which mean the same . |
| 23 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 24 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 25 | This assessment has only been enhanced since then by the spectacular achievements of experimental science . |
| 26 | That assessment has only to be read to indicart to indicate what it fortended for future success in her chosen career . |
| 27 | Unlike industry rivals such as Guinness , Highland has only a relatively small export business — about a third of its sales . |
| 28 | The museum part has only cost FFr150 million and the rest was for the library ’ . |
| 29 | We considered that it would be reasonable to take peptic ulcer in people admitted after 1976 as a proxy for cimetidine use ( bearing in mind that cimetidine has only been available since then ) and to see if peptic ulcer was commoner in people with motor neurone disease than in others . |
| 30 | A. abyssorum has only been recorded from the Eastern Atlantic and Davis Strait . |