Example sentences of "only [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A blonde , like me , only few years younger ? ’ |
| 2 | So far , only few introns have been detected in mitochondria from angiosperms and gymnosperms and all belong to group II ( 9 , 10 , 11 ) . |
| 3 | The proposed concentration would not only have significantly strengthened ATR 's position in the commuter markets , but also have eliminated De Havilland from the relevant market , where there are only few competitors , namely British Aerospace , Saab , Fokker , and some minor firms . |
| 4 | Some managers who carry a smaller team of paid workers with only few volunteers have indeed shown support for the new breed of ‘ unemployed ’ worker , in order to broaden the CAB volunteer base . |
| 5 | The absence of any legal bar to association will not , for example , create the ability to associate if there are heavy costs involved which only some groups can bear . |
| 6 | As chapter 3 shows , however , such developments have been possible in only some industries and to varying degrees . |
| 7 | Alternatively , assistance can be based on a sliding scale , with greater financial help given to key employees and the more junior workers given only some elements of the package . |
| 8 | Some children do n't seem to do as much if their parent is on the premises so maybe parent help in the classroom should be restricted to only some activities , at specific times . |
| 9 | Tone-unit boundary placement can , then , indicate grammatical structure to the listener and we can find minimal pairs such as the following : a ) The Con servatives who like the pro posal are pleased b ) The Con servatives who like the pro posal are pleased The intonation makes clear the difference between ( a ) ‘ restrictive ’ and ( b ) ‘ non-restrictive ’ relative clauses ; ( a ) implies that only some Conservatives like the proposal , while ( b ) implies that all the Conservatives like it . |
| 10 | ‘ Only some things are beyond price . ’ |
| 11 | Many of the dichotomies traditionally employed in this area — for example between constraints operating through reasons and constraints due to other factors — are formulated with individual subjects in mind , and so do not apply , while others , which were originally intended to apply to only some properties of individuals and collectives , must bear extra weight . |
| 12 | In order to explain why only some women but not others who experience such problems develop depression , they suggest that other social factors ( such as a lack of a confiding relationship in marriage ) make some women more vulnerable than others . |
| 13 | Hey , do n't look so terrified , ’ she smiled , ‘ it 's only some letters and a little ornament that Gramps thought you might like . |
| 14 | They 're only some letters that I thought your mother would like to have ! ’ |
| 15 | At the time of going to press only some companies had increased their prices . |
| 16 | At the time of going to press only some companies had increased their prices . |
| 17 | Commercial property values are depressed and only some companies may have adequately written them down in their accounts . |
| 18 | However , little is known regarding how much information is actually provided voluntarily , whether such information meets the requirements of users of accounts and why it is only some companies which provide such information . |
| 19 | He not only has room in his science for God ; he tries to create God using only some laws of physics , some simplifying assumptions , some outrageous extrapolations , and truly cosmic gall . |
| 20 | So , only some horses were receptive to such telepathic messages . |
| 21 | Suppose we can rescue only some prisoners of tyranny ; justice hardly requires rescuing none even when only luck , not any principle , will decide whom we save and whom we leave to torture . |
| 22 | When the picture is sharp enough on fast search ( machines vary ) , then you have a way of skipping through a long programme , perhaps selecting only some sections for normal viewing . |
| 23 | Whether you prefer to follow Turner , and use the idea of a ‘ liminoid ’ period for those times and situations when only some members of a society pass through the rite of separation , is a matter of personal choice . |
| 24 | Then she was in the empty hall , with all the candles blown out and only some lamps guttering here and there . |
| 25 | The Drugs unit aims to expand pupils ' knowledge of drugs so that they appreciate that only some drugs are socially acceptable . |
| 26 | The rhetorical theorist does not assume that only some societies possess the rhetorical capacity to argue . |
| 27 | Only some sailors in blue jerseys who appeared as the Shirley chugged alongside the boarding pontoon . |
| 28 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 29 | The House has not focused its mind yet on whether any name should be published , or whether only some names should or should not be published . |
| 30 | It was only some years later that Jacques learned of the Board 's initiatives and that it had failed because members of the county council had been deeply suspicious of the radicalism associated with liberal adult education in the industrial areas of the county . |