Example sentences of "[verb] only a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the greater profitability of restaurants and garages along an upgraded road should not be included , as this is simply a reflection of more journeys undertaken along this route and represents only a transfer of business from other establishments on less popular routes . |
| 2 | To that extent , modernization represents only a potential for development , not necessarily an actual development ; indeed , form itself , in its stability , may challenge the continuum of lived experience ( Arato 1974 : 158 ; compare Giddens on routinization 1984 : 61 ) . |
| 3 | Style offers only an illusion of democracy , an illusion , indeed , that in a capitalist society is a necessary part of the leisure process . |
| 4 | The farmworker receives only a pittance in pay-off — perhaps £2,000 in redundancy pay — whereas the owner of the land may receive thousands of pounds for several years . |
| 5 | Where the groups are of similar social and economic level with no particular dislike for each other , the supplanting of one group by another usually involves only a minimum of friction . |
| 6 | Democracy is not always taken to signify only a form of government , or of choosing a government : it may be a term applied to a whole society . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You will need only a smear of oil for the face ; if you drench the skin , oil is liable to seep into your partners eyes . |
| 9 | Having done so , it then regrows its tail , though it is not always as long as the original and internally it is quite different , for instead of bony vertebrae , it has only a tube of cartilage . |
| 10 | For him to go to Stuttgart he would have had to pay his own way ( I was gaining only a pittance from athletics at this time ) . |
| 11 | However , too often , their attitudes reveal only a narrowness of mind and a sad lack of common humanity , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Hodge and Parker commanded the midfield , Crosby and Rice , strongly supported by Laws and Pearce , drove forward on the flanks and it seemed only a matter of time before the right sort of cross reached Chapman or Clough . |
| 13 | The Phoenix King himself was trapped within the city , and it seemed only a matter of time before the entire land was devoured . |
| 14 | The electronic popular music of rock is so different in form and function from the old print-based pop of ‘ moon and June ’ , and so akin to the old pre-literate oral forms of folk music , that most of the assumptions made today about the relations between the two are misguided , based on theories devised at a time when the complete destruction of folk culture by the industrial state seemed only a matter of time . |
| 15 | It seemed only a matter of time , therefore , before the spending cuts and restrictions already imposed on the ILEA were followed by more drastic action . |
| 16 | It was an object lesson in finishing that would have preyed on the minds of the Belgian team at half time as they reflected on an opening 45 minutes during which it seemed only a matter of time before they took the lead . |
| 17 | When he thought back over it , as he lay on the bunk and water drips splattered every eleven seconds between his ankles , he could remember only a film of excitement that had wrapped him . |
| 18 | ( In fact we will use only a dichotomy of age by crudely grouping people above and below 45 , but we shall ignore that complication for the time being . ) |
| 19 | What could be more appropriate at Christmas than to remember children who have been deserted by their mothers and know only a hospital as home . |
| 20 | Party leaders in many republics have been openly demanding one : it seems only a matter of time before the president offers them what they are asking for . |
| 21 | It seems only a matter of time before there is a major collision ’ |
| 22 | Morphology was already a well established discipline , which required only a change of emphasis to become the basis for the reconstruction of phylogenetic ( evolutionary ) relationships . |
| 23 | The hall should have only a minimum of furniture in it , and nothing too near to the bottom of the stairs which could increase her injuries if she fell . |
| 24 | The guarantee , however , generated only an action in personam , and admitted only judgment in terms of money . |
| 25 | The minister would retain only a right of intervention if hospitals or health authorities ‘ abused ’ their freedom to develop pay-beds at will . |
| 26 | The point means only a likelihood of harassment etc. not an actual harassment . |
| 27 | Fen gave only a grunt of acknowledgement . |
| 28 | It 's a weird feeling to have only a layer of ice between you and the sea ; weirder still to drive out across the Baltic in a Volkswagen . |
| 29 | I catch his head on the tilt , and he rights it without shame , showing only a flicker of annoyance at not catching a snippet of a sight . |
| 30 | It had taken only a moment of time ; and in a certain sense everything else that had ever happened to me was insignificant in comparison . |