Example sentences of "only a [noun sg] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A computer is a wonderfully useful tool but it will be only a nuisance to your wife if all the language data is locked up on disks and she has nothing to look at in a spare five minutes . |
| 2 | I also heard that my parents both died of an illness only a year after their wedding . |
| 3 | With just 12 tied houses , only a fraction of its output was being sold . |
| 4 | But because of a contract signed by Darlington Borough Council and the hotel 's former leaseholders in 1974 , the rent paid by the company running it is only a fraction of its market value . |
| 5 | It is pursuing the Comex with an offer of $10m ( still only a fraction of its book value ) . |
| 6 | ( The collisions are messy , so only a fraction of their energy goes into producing massive new particles . ) |
| 7 | After all , ’ she added as he looked back at her impassively , ‘ it accounts for only a fraction of your business interests . |
| 8 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 9 | She forgot where they were , lost all awareness that they were surrounded by people , knew only a craving for his touch . |
| 10 | Even when the soul man is ‘ hurt ’ , it is only a celebration of his ability to be ‘ touched ’ . |
| 11 | And even this unobtrusive surveillance might be only a part of her fantasy . |
| 12 | Studies by McLeod , Becker , and Byrnes ( 1974 ) and Iyengar and Kinder ( 1987 ) , for example , suggest that the media set the agenda for only a part of their audience : those highly reliant on a particular news source , those low in political involvement and information , and those who are relatively inattentive to the news generally — in short , those who are marginal to politics . |
| 13 | In earlier times many miners had worked only a part of their time digging coal ; the rest of their income came from labouring jobs or from a smallholding . |
| 14 | Herein you will see a series or medley of events , pictures and scenes ( not what the butler saw which was rather mundane ) which are only a part of my memory store . |
| 15 | This is only a part of our commitment to deliver Quality , Service , Cleanliness and Value to our customers . |
| 16 | But it was true ; it was only a sign of their stupidity or their fear ? — that they were taking him so seriously . |
| 17 | If he loved Emmie , then , his love was only a projection of his need , and even if he found that need curiously weak and shameful , it was common enough . |
| 18 | In a flash all has disappeared ’ , as the narrator realizes it was only a vision of his youth , now past ( ex.4 ) . |
| 19 | This year America 's deficit and Germany 's surplus are forecast to be less than half as big , as a percentage of GNP , as they were at their peak ; Japan 's surplus may be only a quarter of its peak level . |
| 20 | Is the Minister aware that 18 schools in the Cleveland authority area were built before 1914 and that in the current financial year Cleveland has received only a quarter of its capital allocation ? |
| 21 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |
| 22 | So immediately after launching the competition , Hall was having second thoughts about it , and on 28th March , only a fortnight after its inception , wrote an extraordinary letter to the Treasury , killing it off completely . |
| 23 | He had sought and received asylum in the Senegalese embassy in Conakry only a month after his return home from a long period of exile [ see p. 38181 ] . |
| 24 | ‘ Dance Energy is only a phase in my life and unless I can do every idea I want on the BBC , then I 'll obviously have to do them somewhere else . ’ |
| 25 | Anything she said was only a symptom of her condition . |
| 26 | The other half of the club has a stage surrounded by white plastic tables and chairs , above which a blonde girl in a white body stocking was dangling from a rope , with only a ligature around her ankle saving her from crashing head first to the floor . |
| 27 | Thousands of others wed clutching only a photograph of their partner . |
| 28 | Only a failure on their part to contest all the events will give the youngsters of Lagan Valley any chance of survival . |
| 29 | The three asserted that their only observation had been to suggest that because such a rumour was circulating it would be wise for it to be firmly denied or some enquiry made , and that they had not made any allegation against Profumo but only a suggestion for his benefit . |
| 30 | Well , yes , we all know that , but if it gives the autograph seeker pleasure and it takes only a moment of your time , then it seems pointless not to oblige . |