Example sentences of "[prep] only [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a tedious pounding at the heart of this music , a sincerity that allows for only one angle of delivery , a passion that has created a pop atmosphere in which it 's impossible to be clever , cool or cynical , a soul whose impulse is NOT to embrace the avant-garde , like Faustus , and be cut into a thousand pieces by a sampling machine . |
| 2 | The reverse gradient applies for only one cause of death , malignant melanoma of the skin . |
| 3 | It talks about only another layer of government and more red tape and state control , not less . |
| 4 | Divorces rose steadily , though the real acceleration in the divorce rate was to come after the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act of 1 984 which allowed petitioning for divorce after only one year of marriage . |
| 5 | Yet sound will always be part of any future media , and I am pleased that sound recordings have reached such high technical and aesthetic standards after only one century of history . |
| 6 | Why , there had been Macphersons grinding flour in the Tollemarche district sixty years ago , and it had taken her years of hard infighting to reach her present exalted rank ; now this woman was , after only twelve months of residence , her vice-president . |
| 7 | We had come in search of raptors and we saw our first after only five minutes of walking . |
| 8 | This brings the total number of National Certificates awarded , after only five years of operation , to over 300,000 . |
| 9 | Hunter will fly home on Monday with his tour hopes shattered by a dislocated shoulder after only 39 minutes of action today . |
| 10 | In contrast with that of normal subjects , the biopsy specimens from coeliac patients show a conspicuous staining at the lateral membrane/ intercellular space after only 20 minutes of instillation . |
| 11 | Such activity is necessitated by the provision of only 420 km of game-viewing in a reserve of 1673 km 2 and the fact that there are relatively low populations of the carnivores , individuals of which do not always locate themselves in convenient spots ! |
| 12 | It also gained The Queen 's Award for Export Achievement , making us one of only three winners of Queen 's Awards in two categories in 1993 . |
| 13 | Sometimes , he said , they worked with only two feet of air along the roadways , not enough to breathe . |
| 14 | Suffice to say we spent two fruitless days at Glastonbury and left as we came with only two scraps of information : first , Hopkins had been a monk at the abbey , and secondly had discovered his famous riddle there . |
| 15 | With only two gallons of water left there was no chance of washing and I would have to cut my consumption by half . |
| 16 | Cunningham 's centralized system did not permit this since all submissions to the Home Secretary were channelled through him , with only one course of action being recommended . |
| 17 | Unlike the true rambler types with only one flush of bloom , the climbers group contains varieties that flower more or less continuously , and others that make two or more bursts or displays with periods between , during which little or no bloom is carried . |
| 18 | BRITISH hopes of returning to normalcy in negotiations with China over the future of Hong Kong appeared to have been thwarted yesterday as the 14th round of Sino-British talks ended with only limited signs of progress . |
| 19 | With only thirteen degrees of wing sweep sea-level maximum speed is still an exhilarating 349 knots IAS ( although is 400 knots and max Mach is a surprisingly high .82 ) . |
| 20 | The engine-out approach is flown ten knots faster with only fifteen degrees of flap . |
| 21 | With only small amounts of money changing hands , a limited number of dedicated venues , and , if it were to restrict itself solely to black audiences , a finite number of punters , the black comedy scene is clearly still in its infancy . |
| 22 | The most common result of a visit to a museum is to come away with only disparate fragments of information , together with some general impressions which may well be , in certain important respects , incipiently misleading . |
| 23 | Or as a bonny nine-year-old , celebrating her first Christmas at Watton … with only five years of life left to her . |
| 24 | In place of the comfortable doctrine of sedimentation keeping pace with subsidence , we were now faced with the notion of empty troughs forming in the sea floor , with only occasional rushes of sediment to fill them . |
| 25 | The correlation between risk and P(A) across the six exemplars of each junction ranges substantially , from -0.67 to 0.88 , though only one of these ten is significantly different from zero with only four degrees of freedom ( for junction 2 , r=0.88 , p<0.05 ) . |
| 26 | The filming began with only 57 pages of script and the rest of the story was simply blank . |
| 27 | It is a warm , mostly oceanic world with only rudimentary forms of life , whose few land masses had been restructured and reatmosphered as holiday havens for the rich . |
| 28 | With only 6000 years of life left the temperature rockets to 620 million degrees , to convert carbon into neon . |
| 29 | We , in Norfolk , are exceptionally proud that their determined effort and hard work has enabled both to pass the exam in only eighteen months of training . |
| 30 | I once lost a whole Bronica set in the Maldives while in only two feet of sea — but that is another story . |