Example sentences of "have [verb] only a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee on Safety of Medicines ( personal communication ) has received only a single report of visual disorder associated with chlorambucil — namely , corneal opacity — and the manufacturers ( Wellcome ) have only a single report of optic neuritis , occurring on day 1 of chlorambucil treatment and not resolving on withdrawal . |
| 2 | Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms . |
| 3 | The huge world market out there was worth $330 billion between 1989 and 1992 , but the industry has won only a small share of that business . |
| 4 | The Government has said only a full end to violence is acceptable . |
| 5 | The Muslim Brotherhood has made only a marginal impact on Jordanian life since its entry into parliament . |
| 6 | Thanks to the vagaries of international politics , Ethiopia has had only a tiny slice of this aid cake . |
| 7 | He has arrived only a short while before , but did not question the order that von Keller gave to Lt Rosen and several men of the 10th Company to remain close to the vehicle and to bring it up to the battalion by road . |
| 8 | The solar system has travelled round the galaxy almost 20 times since it was formed , and it has described only a tiny arc of its journey during the two million years that people have been on the Earth . |
| 9 | She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time . |
| 10 | There are hundreds of places for mooring boats on the Thames — and this boat may have needed only a temporary mooring . |
| 11 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 12 | Will they think that he is getting a massive discount , as he will have to pay only a small amount ? |
| 13 | As sport is popularly thought of as a leisure time distraction rather than a central life interest or a possible career , it would have held only a marginal interest to the first generation . |
| 14 | Yet mercenaries seem still to have formed only a small part of the German army ; the fief-rente was almost exclusively used to supply garrisons for castles and fortified towns ; and as the Church and its ministeriales became a less reliable source of troops , the twelfth-century emperors resorted to the practice of strengthening feudal bonds and building up the resources of their own domains . |
| 15 | The defendant can already count himself lucky to have received only a two-year sentence , having regard to the amount involved and to the position of trust which he held . |
| 16 | The relaxation of advertising regulations , initially in 1979–80 , and more fully in 1987 , seems to have had only a limited impact on the profession . |
| 17 | While the Odiham Society has earned and received its fair share of credit , it must be concluded that this modest proposal , so long in incubation , was likely even if put into effect , to have had only a marginal impact on the situation it was meant to remedy — as the society soon realised . |
| 18 | And on that occasion print propaganda appears to have played only a minor part . |
| 19 | Other prominent industrialists were involved in canal promotion , though as a group they seem to have provided only a small part of the necessary finance . |
| 20 | THE Irish Republic 's tottering coalition government last night appeared to have gained only a temporary stay of execution . |
| 21 | Thus far , Kirov had received only a vague brief about his current project . |
| 22 | Rico Gopul , a staff nurse in the villa at the time of the alleged incidents , told the tribunal he had been accused of the same offences as Mr Reid but had received only a written warning . |
| 23 | Dadda he had told , though even to him he had given only a vague location , but he had n't said a word to his grandmother and he was sure Peter would n't have told Uncle Leonard and Auntie Midge . |
| 24 | The survey briefing had included only a verbal specification . |
| 25 | The day belonged unquestionably to the Germans , for their six divisions had withstood the heroic , doomed assault of 18 Allied divisions and had relinquished only a small area of ground . |
| 26 | Although he had suffered only a broken arm , it had been feared by two doctors at the scene that he had suffered serious head injuries . |
| 27 | Catalonia had possessed only a small section of a textile industry scattered all over Spain but it was round Barcelona that the cotton factory made its appearance . |
| 28 | In the area of closest scrutiny only 14 per cent of males ( 45/311 ) and 19 per cent of females ( 75/390 ) aged over ten at the time of the 1861 census were living in the same house as the one they had inhabited in 1851 ; but many of them had moved only a short distance . |
| 29 | Goodness knows I 've got only a bare chance of catching her , though . ’ |
| 30 | After his death Margaret had had only a widowed mother 's pension to support Dickie and herself . |