Example sentences of "only a [noun sg] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the level of the household , land-use decisions are often only a sub-sector in a range of income opportunities , and this range has to be fully specified to include the most common forms of income generation since land-use decisions are affected by these other forms . |
| 2 | He was only a man in a queue but something in his voice suggested that what she had said struck a chord in him . |
| 3 | Only a man in an anorak . |
| 4 | It 's only a needle in a vein , after all . |
| 5 | Miguel Rafaelo was now only a colleague in an emergency . |
| 6 | She says she was only a courier in an operation organised by Lock . |