Example sentences of "have only a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Collor 's National Reconstruction Party was created as an election vehicle and has only a handful of members . |
| 2 | The town , sprawling along the side of Lake Managua , has only a handful of buildings over one storey and is without any identifiable centre . |
| 3 | Having done so , it then regrows its tail , though it is not always as long as the original and internally it is quite different , for instead of bony vertebrae , it has only a tube of cartilage . |
| 4 | The hall should have only a minimum of furniture in it , and nothing too near to the bottom of the stairs which could increase her injuries if she fell . |
| 5 | I detest William S. Rubin , former head of Paintings and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art in New York , who spotted the deception too late , and then unintentionally justified the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ by stating that ‘ the Reina Sofia will find it hard to acquire a collection of twentieth-century masterpieces to match ‘ Guernica ’ ’ , and that its removal reflected a wish to ‘ attract crowds to a museum which would otherwise have only a handful of visitors ’ . |
| 6 | Nayland in Suffolk was obviously a centre of the clothing trade ; a couple of miles away , Stoke , though equal in size , was completely different , having only a handful of clothiers whose businesses , by local standards were not large . |
| 7 | It 's a weird feeling to have only a layer of ice between you and the sea ; weirder still to drive out across the Baltic in a Volkswagen . |
| 8 | In good English that had only a speck of accent , just a faint edge that you would wonder every time you heard him if it really was some kind of accent . |
| 9 | Gould had only a couple of weeks to spare here ( he had been delayed a week in Maitland on the lower reaches of the Hunter while he waited to meet up with Stephen Coxen ) , having promised Eliza to forsake his desire to continue collecting , and to return in time for the delivery of their child . |
| 10 | Some parliamentary constituencies had only a handful of electors : known as " rotten boroughs , " they were often in the pocket of an aristocrat or local landowner . |
| 11 | It was fluent educated English and the accent had only a trace of French as well as a trace of English nanny . |
| 12 | But we had only a month in Borneo and after just three days — rather than the recommended three weeks — relaxing in Miri , the capital of Sarawak , we were looking forward to getting down to some trekking , the purpose of the trip . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Voters with above the minimum of education are more likely than those who have only a minimum of education to vote Conservative . |