Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] only a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Where a restaurant certificate or a restricted hotel licence is being granted or transferred , if it appears to the licensing board that only a mid-day meal or an evening meal is being provided , it can restrict the permitted hours to the mid-day period , if only a mid-day meal is being provided , or to the evening period , if only an evening meal is being provided .
2 Only ten per cent of the items in the Hatfields store were made from the tropical hard wood and only a minute proportion of those goods were made from solid mahogany .
3 With this unstable machine and the limited resources of post-war Spain , Ferdinand hoped to recover the American Empire ; his dilemma was that only American silver could stave off bankruptcy while only a solvent state could reconquer America .
4 The Evolution V PC is targeted at system integrators and resellers and uses the 60MHz processor but only a 32-bit bus .
5 Every year thousands of people , including many young children , with leukaemia and other bone marrow diseases reach a stage where only a bone marrow transplant can save them .
6 A choice of colour or new hairdo , lipstick that only a fashion model would wear , could work wonders for a woman .
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