Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] only [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with all water fowl the female is less flamboyant than its partner and the duck is sooty brown with only a hint of a crest . |
| 2 | Not this one ; it rides easy with only a trace of load-carrying compromise . |
| 3 | More people had attended the early services , but the day seemed as quiet and peaceful as usual with only the sound of church bells and the occasional ship 's hooter breaking the silence . |
| 4 | Sound-insulating quilt is laid above the new ceiling , and though a good space between the new and old ceiling is ideal , in houses with low ceilings , the method can be quite effective with only a gap of an inch or two . |
| 5 | He protested that the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , had been present at only the start of the debate . |
| 6 | In all of the forested areas sampled by Eyre , commercial lumber production was responsible for only a proportion of the deforestation . |
| 7 | This situation only arises when the motor is stationary ; if the motor is moving the phases are excited in sequence and any one winding is excited for only a fraction of the cycle . |
| 8 | Given the fullness of most fields by the end of the first main phase of the PCAS cycle , the continuing applications procedure and late applications are relevant for only a minority of subjects , sometimes including new fields which suffer from uncertainty as their approval is pending . |
| 9 | The village was quiet with only a couple of old men sitting on a bench outside the church as we drove through the gates of the big house and along the road through the village , passing the Chateau where the Commando dead had been placed on the front lawn shortly after we had entered the village , and during the bitter fighting of the first ten days . |
| 10 | Our ears are sensitive to only a fraction of these sounds . |