Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] only a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was running what was mostly a sixties disco with a sprinkling of classic rock and only a few recent standards . |
| 2 | Some guides are indeed very brief , suggesting visits at breakneck speed where only a few items or rooms will be seen . |
| 3 | But this was such specialized work that only a lucky few got it , none of them women . |
| 4 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 5 | CHEMICALS companies have made further cuts in capital spending this year and only a modest improvement is in prospect next year before a further fall in 1994 , according to an industry survey published yesterday . |
| 6 | Innocent moved within the framework of the old doctrine that only a general council could declare or pronounce on the faith ( Isidore of Seville ) , establish doctrine and condemn heresies . |
| 7 | There was a certain warmth and cosiness in this great dilapidated old house that only a gentle soul could create . |
| 8 | When we introduced lexical stress we found that all content words but only a small proportion of function words were marked for lexical stress , and that the number of word paths was reduced primarily because these function words no longer matched parts of content words . |
| 9 | It is necessary by way of preface to emphasise that in no circumstances can in-house benefits give rise to no taxable benefit or only a small taxable benefit if that benefit is to be assessed on an average cost basis . |
| 10 | The need for laboratory investigations should be determined by the clinical problems posed by individual patients and only a few tests need be considered as routine ( table III ) . |
| 11 | This was a famous and magnificent building but only a small , well preserved , portion remains . |
| 12 | Although some of these issues went beyond the main remit of his Inquiry , he drew the conclusion from this basic finding that only a national government-led initiative to deal with problems of policing , unemployment , poor housing , and racial disadvantage could get to the roots of the unrest . |
| 13 | This morphology does not lend itself to analysis after conventional staining since only a few of the autosomes show distinguishing features in the form of secondary constrictions ( Figure 3a ) and , of the sex chromosomes , only the Y of some strains can be recognized by virtue of occasionally visible unique features ( Figure 3a ) . |
| 14 | No camera lens can match the flexibility of the human eye and only a few experiments in stereoscopy attempt two-eyed ( binocular ) vision , essential to true 3-D perception . |
| 15 | The lottery business is basically a very very small business with limited competition , and for a state the size of California it makes it very difficult to have large competition because only a certain number of companies can actually put in a system of this size . |
| 16 | Of course , one cornerstone of this model of the structure of heroin ‘ epidemics ’ is the questionable assumption that only a certain proportion of the population are likely to take heroin , the corollary assumption being that the ‘ epidemic ’ must have a life cycle because it will eventually exhaust the pool of potential heroin users . |
| 17 | About four in 10 companies provide rented accommodation but only a fifth provide a housing allowance . |
| 18 | Since the whole edition was of only one thousand copies and only a small number had been circulated when the suppression was ordered , this is obviously a rare book and one that is likely to be costly unless the seller is ignorant of its history . |
| 19 | Day-trippers and weekend visitors have filled the streets and riverside paths every summer for more than sixty years but only a tiny percentage are aware of the village 's remarkable gastronomic distinction , about which most communities would continually drum up a publicity fanfare . |
| 20 | Many were sent to psychiatric hospitals and put in overcrowded wards with real mental patients and only a few overworked nuns to supervise them . |
| 21 | These books show us a great adventure that only a few people undertake and finish . |
| 22 | Social conventions would clearly be of little use if only a small proportion of members was aware of them , and the same holds for the interpretative rules which guide the manner in which meanings are attached to objects and situations . |
| 23 | The process was never completed owing to a lack of consensus in a number of important areas and only a few piecemeal changes have been made over the years , most recently the creation of Schools in 1989 . |
| 24 | It should not be a series of coded sign-posts that only a small élite can decode and which lead us round and round in circles . |
| 25 | The reports have attracted considerable publicity although only a tiny proportion of the reports have been debated in the House . |
| 26 | Palmerston was clearly satisfied with Scott 's plan and layout and regarded the provision of classical elevations as only a minor revision . |
| 27 | A number of salts are found in the soils of arid regions but only a few are generally quantitatively significant — , , , , , and KCI . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's something about its jizz which makes me think it 's a … ’ is a very handy phrase when only a brief glimpse of the bird has been caught . |
| 29 | Most people who abuse alcohol will develop hepatic steatosis but only a few alcoholics develop more serious forms of liver disease — hepatitis , fibrosis , and cirrhosis . |
| 30 | This ability removes the restriction on context-free grammars that only a finite set of grammatical categories are allowed . |