Example sentences of "[vb base] only a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campra , whose expressed aim was to combine French musical expression with Italian liveliness , was perhaps copying the acknowledged pioneer of the French cantata , Jean-Baptiste Morin : four of the 12 works in Morin 's first two collections ( 1706,1707 ) introduce only a change of mode from air to air by way of contrast , and in the others the only secondary keys used in principal movements are the relative , IV and V. But as Morin was an otherwise obscure figure it is more likely that Campra was pursuing his own ideals , themselves anchored in Lullian tradition . |
| 2 | However , too often , their attitudes reveal only a narrowness of mind and a sad lack of common humanity , ’ she said . |
| 3 | What could be more appropriate at Christmas than to remember children who have been deserted by their mothers and know only a hospital as home . |
| 4 | Rhodes ( 1981 , p. 17 ) observes that ‘ although central government has an impressive list of controls at its disposal they constitute only a potential for control ’ . |
| 5 | They can distinguish between two sounds which are only 18 inches apart at a distance of 60 feet ; they can separate with ease two sounds that are coming from the same direction , but at different distances ; and they can differentiate two sounds that have only a half-tone of difference between them . |
| 6 | Voters with above the minimum of education are more likely than those who have only a minimum of education to vote Conservative . |