Example sentences of "[verb] only a [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 2 | But Kraal only shook his head and stared mournfully out on to the lovely morning , seeing only a memory of an old eagle he had argued with but always loved and who would never come back . |
| 3 | She had scarcely seen the Mercedes that had swung into the drive just as she 'd been about to go out , but by sheer instinct she had swerved to miss it , sparing only a glance in the mirror to tell her the other car was safe before speeding on her way again . |
| 4 | Schemes for the unemployed , such as community work , might be helpful for those involved but would cover only a fraction of the three million people out of work , he said . |
| 5 | On the other hand , once estimated , the known user total still represents only a proportion of the total user population and , thus , a multiplier factor is needed , that is to say , a ratio of unknown to known heroin use , in order to determine the size of the total heroin user population ( Hartnoll et al. |
| 6 | Wilson points out that the designer side represents only a fraction of the fashion industry 's £6.5 billion turnover . |
| 7 | However it seems that the slowest time constant represents only a subset of the GC sites since we observe dissociation from some GC sites at rates closer to the faster species . |
| 8 | In December 1985 the long-awaited Fowler review of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) produced only a reduction in the pension benefits rather than an abolition of the scheme ( it is worth noting , however , that the encouragement to leave SERPS for private schemes has had some success ; by mid-1989 over one million people had left ) . |
| 9 | On abortion , the Committee accepted the medical view that any abortion entailed danger to life and health and recommended only a clarification of the law to allow therapeutic abortion on health grounds . |
| 10 | Electricity again but using only a fraction of the power . |
| 11 | Thus this paper supplies only a part of the substantiation which the foregoing analysis requires . |
| 12 | The Committee can consider only a fraction of the instruments laid before Parliament . |
| 13 | This is especially true of those , often identified as burgi , which protected only a very small part of the settlement ( p. 35 below ) ; but even where larger areas were enclosed , most included only a fraction of the total , as for example at Catterick , Ilchester and Water Newton , where the inhabited extra-mural areas extended for considerable distances . |
| 14 | It would need only a charge of the cavalry , or a shot fired over their heads , to set them off . |
| 15 | In order to be elected , a constituency candidate needs only a plurality of the votes cast . |
| 16 | If Glynn had wanted a cover for visits to his woman friend , his charitable trips to St Ives served him well ; New Mill involved only a detour of a mile or so from the direct route . |
| 17 | To achieve this they may have to adopt conservative technology — that is , technology that has only a fraction of the communications power of optical fibres — and to pander to the needs of a mass audience . |
| 18 | The famous " Big Mac " has only a fraction of the vitamin B content it should have . |
| 19 | But in 1934 , the District managed to obtain only a promise of a mere £70 in grant-aid from the LEA for those courses provided by Whiteley — a wholly inadequate offer . |
| 20 | The reporting system covers only a proportion of the chemicals emitted and also exempts many types of plants , including public utilities . |
| 21 | In most cases the answer will include only a fraction of the total . |
| 22 | The excavation of the villa , directed by Marisa de Spagnolis , has so far revealed only a portion of a room decorated with wall paintings most of the remains lie under the soil of an adjoining property . |
| 23 | Birth and inherited status played only a part in the stories of Bernard and Adalard . |
| 24 | Tropical oceanic waters , generally poor in nutrients and productivity , support only a fraction of the biomass found in the cold northern and southern oceans . |
| 25 | Robert Hooke urges in his Micrographia that ‘ the science of nature has already too long been made only a work of the brain and fancy : It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things . ’ |
| 26 | UNFORTUNATELY the majority of memorial dedications tend to receive only a fraction of the publicity they deserve . |
| 27 | Support staff , numerically increased in some areas , but threatened with further reductions in others , are able to reach only a minority of the estimated number of children in need of special attention . |
| 28 | Manley claimed that it would provide training , marketing and financial advice to help " ambitious and disciplined young people " , but the benefits were expected to reach only a minority of the young unemployed . |
| 29 | Rupert Rosser , a villager and member of the GVPG , thinks a bypass would divert only a fraction of the traffic . |
| 30 | As far as my own case is concerned , the scapegoating theory , delineated above , describes only a portion of the truth about emptiness . |