Example sentences of "only [verb] [prep] a small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public-sector contracts anyway only account for a small proportion of Olivetti 's sales , says Mr De Benedetti . |
| 2 | died as , whatever and they went to his eldest brother he said he had to burn all because he only lived in a small flat , he and his wife and two children and they 'd got no room for them to so he had to burn them . |
| 3 | For the rest of the decade the working classes were only depicted in a small number of undistinguished films which celebrated or exploited the skills of particular groups of workers . |
| 4 | ( This exchange system enabled some universities to establish very large collections of theses , but it was very costly , since it depended on the production of multiple copies of theses , and the practise was only operating in a small number of American universities by the start of Worl War II . |
| 5 | The Commission and the European Parliament have conducted regular opinion polls over many years to monitor the development of such an identity , but it is still only felt by a small minority of Europeans . |
| 6 | Each outer cave or vault can only entered through a small version of the iris-like Vadinamian Valve . |
| 7 | It would only call fur a small diversion from the direct route from Stanley to McMurdo Sound to give him a glimpse of the Ice Shelf and the area where Shackleton 's Endurance was beset and finally sunk . ’ |
| 8 | With a very shallow L curve ( as in Figure 18.3 ) , a rise in money supply from M to M' will only lead to a small fall in the rate of interest from r 1 to r 2 . |
| 9 | So , if we knew that P was the first letter of a word we would know that the second letter could only come from a small group , and that A , E , I , O , and U are the most likely candidates , H and S are less likely but possible , and F and N very unlikely , but not impossible . |
| 10 | You see some of them only live in a small cottage with no garden and that 's an extension to their home , you can go down there with the children |
| 11 | Clevedon Veals skipper Ray Bazeley had only planned for a small squad outing after their first choice match on the Nene at Peterborough was cancelled . |
| 12 | During the course of the day the Bank 's objective will be to provide enough assistance to the money market ( through outright bill operations and the other techniques discussed below ) to relieve the overall expected shortage , but purchases of bills by the Bank at the early rounds of assistance during the course of the day might only account for a small proportion of the overall assistance provided , for four main reasons . |