Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] only a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , he endeavoured to introduce into Siberia something which was after all only a rudimentary concept at that time in metropolitan Russia , that is , the ‘ rule of law ’ . |
| 2 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 3 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 4 | In general only a small proportion of the specialised product enterprises involved the women of the family with a high involvement in North Yorkshire ( 100% ) and Wester Ross ( 67% ) . |
| 5 | Before 1772 only a little ale-house stood here , on a sandy waste . |
| 6 | Neglect or minimization of a task is at best only a short-term expedient , and the housewife 's awareness of this fact causes time pressures to be felt possibly more acutely than they are in other kinds of work . |
| 7 | Intelligence , even codebreaking , is at best only a fragmented adjunct to strategic planning . |
| 8 | In particular , we need to know far more about those numerous families which moved from the countryside but which experienced only a hum-drum life in the towns or at best only a modest prosperity . |