Example sentences of "[noun sg] only [prep] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prefaced by an ‘ urgent remonstrance ’ to the gentlemen of England , warning them that the young Queen Victoria 's announcement of her intention to marry Prince Albert may lead to great numbers of her female subjects taking a similar nuptial initiative owing to Leap Year of 1840 ( traditionally a woman could make a proposal of marriage only in a leap year ) . |
| 2 | It was in fact a large room divided in two , one half being given over to the mistress 's wardrobe and dressing stool , with the pier-glass in the corner , the other providing a small chamber with room only for a cot bed . |
| 3 | DNA changes by biological evolution only on a time scale of millions of years , but our powers of destruction are increasing on a time scale for the evolution of information , which is now only twenty or thirty years . |
| 4 | Something of all that had rubbed off on Zeinab , although Zeinab was Nuri 's daughter only by a slave girl , a well-known courtesan , who had had mind enough of her own to refuse to join Nuri 's harem . |
| 5 | For free sheets , of course , the direct cost to the reader was nil ; and for ITV programmes , the viewer paid directly for the cost only of a TV set and electricity . |
| 6 | Microwave to cook 2 trout : heat butter only in a micro-proof dish on High for 1 min . |