Example sentences of "[vb base] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cite only a few . |
| 2 | We have as many lovely things here as on the Mountain of Butterflies but we lack only a prophet and the eyes and emotions to see them . |
| 3 | Frequently , the analytical courses are cut out in joint schemes , and the students gain only a superficial introduction to both subjects . |
| 4 | A recent article in the Lancet states that a Dundee Medical School team headed by Prof. Peter Howie ( Obstetrics ) have found that babies who are breastfed for 13 weeks or longer suffer only a third of the stomach infections experienced by bottlefed babies , and have fewer respiratory infections . |
| 5 | Note that the target struck by the cauldron suffers a strength 5 hit , while remaining targets suffer only a strength 3 hit . |
| 6 | That is another way of saying he wants his team to win , because they remain only a point clear , although after tonight they will still have a match in hand . |
| 7 | City analysts expect it to pass its final dividend , or make only a token pay-out . |
| 8 | This would not be too great a bother if morels could be collected in the wild for a reasonable length of time each year , but the fruiting bodies of the morel make only a brief appearance , sometime between March and May . |
| 9 | The private sector service industries make only a small contribution while the public services make none . |
| 10 | The insect may be 50 yards away , and so make only a tiny image on my retina . |
| 11 | But opera , whether their texts are well-written in the conventional literary sense or not , have almost no value as plays , and their librettos make only a shadowy sense away from their music . |
| 12 | From her sample she recorded 1,964 separate job descriptions in the 1770s and 1780s , yet lists from the late seventeenth century designate only a few hundred . |
| 13 | Campra , whose expressed aim was to combine French musical expression with Italian liveliness , was perhaps copying the acknowledged pioneer of the French cantata , Jean-Baptiste Morin : four of the 12 works in Morin 's first two collections ( 1706,1707 ) introduce only a change of mode from air to air by way of contrast , and in the others the only secondary keys used in principal movements are the relative , IV and V. But as Morin was an otherwise obscure figure it is more likely that Campra was pursuing his own ideals , themselves anchored in Lullian tradition . |
| 14 | It is clear why ministers , who lose only a little and gain a great deal from the doctrine , should want to keep it going . |
| 15 | The detailed changes to the boundary layer structure during this development are complicated , although they occupy only a small fraction of the total distance over which transition occurs . |
| 16 | My friend , you say only a merlan , I say give me your whiting and I will create a masterpiece — a soufflé de merlan à la Didier . ’ |
| 17 | Suspended sediment load data , however , provide only a crude measure of overall erosion and do not reveal the proportions of that load which are due to agriculture , logging , urban development , etc . |
| 18 | High latitude and frequent cloudiness provide only a short growing season , and a suspended peat limits photosynthesis to shallow photic ( light ) zone of about 6 m . |
| 19 | The problem is not just that MOX reactors provide only a narrow channel for disposing of military plutonium , or that the channel will be clogged by the plutonium from uneconomic civil reprocessing programmes . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , hospitals provide only a small proportion of respite care — perhaps as little as 7% . |
| 21 | The network news programmes provide only a ‘ headline service ’ , nothing can be dealt with in any depth and everything that is covered has to be supported by good televisuals . |
| 22 | The Ediacaran fossils , however , provide only a brief isolated glimpse of the progress of the invertebrates . |
| 23 | Alternatives to this usually provide only a palliative for the rural transport problem . |
| 24 | Pluralists provide only a partial perspective on the inactivity of certain interests and groups . |
| 25 | Although the above extracts , which are taken from a more detailed investigation ( Osbourn , 1988 ) , provide only a brief description they do demonstrate the potential offered by RGT for exploration and education within the area of aesthetic appraisal . |
| 26 | At the same time , they provide only a limited basis for understanding the determinants of the long-run rate of growth , particularly technical progress and entrepreneurial activity . |
| 27 | The settlement of the barbarians was plainly varied , and our sources provide only a hint of its complexities . |
| 28 | Publishing exam results is fine — We have been saying that for three years , but as the Secretary of State managed to point out in his contorted evidence to the teachers ' pay review body , exam results alone provide only an elementary indication of the effectiveness of a school . |
| 29 | Faecal concentrations , however , provide only an indirect estimate of the drug available in the tissues . |
| 30 | The instructions for folding a piece of paper involve only a few operations like folding and unfolding . |