Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [conj] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was running what was mostly a sixties disco with a sprinkling of classic rock and only a few recent standards . |
| 2 | Tears were a kind of emotional richness that only a man who was really warm and human could afford . |
| 3 | Social conventions would clearly be of little use if only a small proportion of members was aware of them , and the same holds for the interpretative rules which guide the manner in which meanings are attached to objects and situations . |
| 4 | The yew contains a mixture of poisonous compounds and only a chemist can extract anything good from it so people should n't eat or drink anything connected with the Yew tree . |
| 5 | It should not be a series of coded sign-posts that only a small élite can decode and which lead us round and round in circles . |
| 6 | Palmerston was clearly satisfied with Scott 's plan and layout and regarded the provision of classical elevations as only a minor revision . |
| 7 | The process was never completed owing to a lack of consensus in a number of important areas and only a few piecemeal changes have been made over the years , most recently the creation of Schools in 1989 . |
| 8 | A number of salts are found in the soils of arid regions but only a few are generally quantitatively significant — , , , , , and KCI . |
| 9 | We found that only about one in five of all establishments used either form of temporary worker and only a third of those used them in numbers equivalent to at least five per cent of their labour forces . |
| 10 | It contains all the flavour of common salt but only a third of its sodium . |