Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] only [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | But when morning came , bright and clear with only a slight breeze , it arrived alone . |
| 3 | The evidence suggests that they are often indifferent to their educational attainment and are interested in only a narrow range of basic skills or in traditional education for the ‘ high-fliers ’ . |
| 4 | Each such coherent structure is identifiable for only a limited time . |
| 5 | In fact , the diamonds we see in jewellers ' windows are typical of only a small percentage of natural diamonds . |
| 6 | The arm spines of A. palmeri are very different from Mortensen 's specimen ; they are thick with a very distinct hook , the arm spines of A. otteri are slender with only a small hook , like those of the Ingolf specimens . |
| 7 | It was possible with only a small selection of gouges to find the appropriate one to fit the circumference of the eyeball , using the gouge on both sides . |
| 8 | However , in 1971 Gerard 't Hooft showed that a unified model of the electromagnetic and weak interactions that had been proposed earlier by Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg was indeed renormalizable with only a finite number of infinite subtractions . |
| 9 | Cytochrome P450 was present in only a small proportion of normal colon samples , whereas epoxide hydrolase and glutathione S-transferase β were identified in about half , and glutathione S-transferase α and γ in most normal samples . |
| 10 | At higher Re the flow becomes turbulent in only a small fraction of the total length and so the variations in flow rate are again too small . |
| 11 | It is true that Edinburgh University is active in more than one of the earth science sub-fields — geology per se , geophysics , geochemistry , mineralogy , geomorphology etc. — whereas some universities are strong in only a single sub-field , such as palaeontology . |
| 12 | Each of those four nations er really ought to test the software pretty thoroughly before they hand it over but because er we could n't afford four lots of test equipment we said right , ship your software out , in tested to only a modest level and it 'll all be tested centrally in the Deutsch Aerospace facility . |
| 13 | Proper buffet cars are economic on only a small handful of their routes , notably Waterloo-Bournemouth . |
| 14 | That is why , to date , food has been available through only a limited number of channels . |
| 15 | The fourth attribute demanded by George Corner , that of understanding , is possible for the first time in the history of civilization ; but it is a possibility which so far is available to only a small minority of specialists . |
| 16 | At high stepping rates each phase is excited for only a short time interval and the build.up time of the phase current is a significant proportion of the excitation interval . |
| 17 | While arbitrage is open to any investor , these two alternatives strategies , which will now be explained , are open to only a limited number of investors . |
| 18 | It is well known that the authorities are aware of only a small proportion of crimes , and that administrative processing of those crimes further distorts official statistics . |
| 19 | Causton plans to alter the ends of the polymers to make them stick better to specific surfaces or make them attractive to only a particular protein . |