Example sentences of "[adj] only [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the market making arm of the company has run down its holdings , in-house arbitrage of overpricings ( which involves ‘ buying ’ shares from the market maker ) will be possible only to a limited degree . |
| 2 | Julian Huxley 's directional component in evolution is made possible only by an increasing subtlety of internal integration of the body and a corresponding increase in the inter-individual integration in societal processes involved in reproduction . |
| 3 | In that case it is no obstacle to freedom that actions are predictable ; indeed , free and rational action is possible only in a predictable world . |
| 4 | Orchomenos was the only state in Boiotia other than Thebes which had any natural claim to rule all Boiotia ; Tanagra 's brief attempt was possible only in an unusual period when Thebes after her medism was in temporary discredit . |
| 5 | Armed only with a false beard , a small knife and a lot of cheek , Mr Vendu would cut the paintings out of their frames and walk off with them ; he even took a Renoir from the Louvre . |
| 6 | And Chain isolated substances which could be recognized as novel and peculiar only with a considerable knowledge of chemistry . |
| 7 | This implies that , if one is interested only in a limited number of eigenvalues , the power method is the obvious choice . |
| 8 | Earliest into the national newspaper market after 1945 was the Pearson group , previously interested only in a regional newspaper chain ( Westminster Press ) . |
| 9 | Hyde mentions a program that can automatically provide precis of news stories , but does not point out that it can attempt to do this only for a restricted range of stories . |
| 10 | However commonsense has prevailed and in Re Transatlantic Life Assurance Slade J. felt able to hold that ‘ the wording … is wide enough in its terms to empower the court to order the deletion of some only of a registered shareholder 's shares . ’ |
| 11 | The foreman of his jury wrote a letter to " The Times " : " Where a jury has to decide , as men and women of the world , " how much " " , the degree of uncertainty is so great that a random answer , consistent only with a total lack of any sort of yardstick , can be expected . |
| 12 | L. John Chapman ( 1987 , p.9 ) says rather primary ‘ there are many that are proficient only in a non-standard version of English ’ . |
| 13 | The cottage stood about two hundred yards back from the road , accessible only by a narrow drive flanked on both sides by stone walls . |
| 14 | Holding her breath , Theda crept behind one of the wide pillars , carefully put down her portmanteau , and crouched down , trying to make herself visible only as an unidentifiable hump . |
| 15 | My comments on his work were valuable only as an irritating pretext which permitted him to lecture me on Art . |
| 16 | Five minutes after half-time he was frustrated only by a glorious flying save by Beasant . |
| 17 | They are useful only for a single set of data and can not be used to compare two sets unless two pies each representing different totals are compared . |
| 18 | However , we should be conscious of the assumptions underlying these theories which , more often than not , despite the apparently general formulations , are valid and useful only within a specific framework . |
| 19 | He developed a technique whereby one can produce frailties ( Drosophila ) in which patches of tissue are genetically different from the rest of the body , usually by having two doses of some recessive mutant gene which is present only in a single dose in the rest of the fly . |
| 20 | It is actually a very good performance of the piece , so it is possible to conclude that Ravel was present only in an advisory capacity , if at all . |
| 21 | In the view of the British Treasury sterling convertibility , if accepted , would be feasible only with a floating pound . |
| 22 | You 're right to be sceptical : we should be indulgent only to a certain point with lovers , whose vanities rival those of politicians . |
| 23 | The City of London Police ( who are responsible only for a square mile at the centre of London ) are controlled by a committee of elected councillors . |
| 24 | It is because he is concerned only with a private set of notes that he is able to enrich his initial comments in this way . |
| 25 | It has the advantage that the user is given a feeling of security by being concerned only with a limited range of immediate decisions . |
| 26 | But planners are paid to be pessimistic , and for the time being they felt it prudent to assume that American assistance in a crisis — imperative though it would be — was likely to be forthcoming only after an unpredictable interval . |
| 27 | They confound you because there are times when conditions are compatible only to a warm bed yet you end the day with a netful of fish . |
| 28 | If I say : ‘ I have faith in you to post this letter ’ , such a statement is compatible only with an intellectual uncertainty that you will do so . |
| 29 | An unblinded design was necessary for this study , since artemether is commercially available only as an intramuscular injection , but intravenous quinine remains the treatment of choice for cerebral malaria in children . |
| 30 | A worker-directed study conducted in the mid-1970s considered as temporary workers all who had a job which was available only for a limited time and all who were themselves available for their jobs for only a limited period of time . |