Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Innocent moved within the framework of the old doctrine that only a general council could declare or pronounce on the faith ( Isidore of Seville ) , establish doctrine and condemn heresies . |
| 2 | No camera lens can match the flexibility of the human eye and only a few experiments in stereoscopy attempt two-eyed ( binocular ) vision , essential to true 3-D perception . |
| 3 | Of course , one cornerstone of this model of the structure of heroin ‘ epidemics ’ is the questionable assumption that only a certain proportion of the population are likely to take heroin , the corollary assumption being that the ‘ epidemic ’ must have a life cycle because it will eventually exhaust the pool of potential heroin users . |
| 4 | Jimbo himself had made the one effort that only a patient can make . |
| 5 | The radical right mainly drifted back towards the Conservative party and only a small minority associated with the emerging fascist movement . |
| 6 | Course , Derek Weintraub just sat there , totally gormless and I-know-it-all at the same time as only a fifth-year O-level repeat can be . |
| 7 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 8 | For the twentieth-century facts were that they were a small , oppressed , poor and exploited people , in thrall to the then all-mighty English , and their sole singularity was the Welsh language and only a quarter of them spoke that . |
| 9 | Because of the barrier against incest , the final object of the sexual instinct ‘ is never any longer the original object but only a surrogate for it … . |
| 10 | Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep . |