Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the problem is that this requires a teacher of genius ; and that a pupil has anyway only a brief time to get through work which has taken the lifetimes of many eminent predecessors : there must always be something artificial about heurism . |
| 2 | JCT 80 provides that ’ Full discharge by the Contractor in respect of payments for materials or goods supplied by the Nominated Supplier shall be effected within 30 days of the end of the month during which delivery is made less only a discount for cash of 5% if so paid . ’ |
| 3 | Johnson flits over it all in a sentence , and in his letters to Mrs Thrale he came forth only a little more , alluding only to the success of the visit , and to the debate as to whether the savage or the shopkeeper had the best life . |
| 4 | But I mean , now you see erm I , I 've got to er go to since they closed Central , and I have n't got a car erm so I 'm not going to carry thing , I ca n't I 'm with , with arthritis in my back I ca n't , I ca n't carry really only a very small bag , so this was |
| 5 | Khomeini seemed then only a very small voice in the wilderness , Bit in retrospect , the party at Persepolis can be seen to symbolize the end of the most successful years of the Shahs reign . |
| 6 | When she woke again only a little time had passed . |
| 7 | The Longman Group 's semi-official history of the party will doubtless provide the basic starting-point for scholars of twentieth century Conservatism for years to come , but to date it offers still only a largely introductory , if more detailed , survey of the Conservative party in the first three decades of this century . |
| 8 | Everything had been going swimmingly only a moment before . |
| 9 | The latter makes economic sense as water reed costs approximately only a third more for double the life expectancy . |
| 10 | My mother had died unexpectedly only a few months before . |
| 11 | To most , if not all , British trade union leaders it seemed to be suicide to follow Larkin 's " fiery cross " into a confrontation with the state in circumstances in which it was clear that their members would not follow them ; why should they make such a sacrifice for Larkin when they had been unwilling to do so only a year earlier for the London dockers ? |
| 12 | I enjoy my Stag most when it is loafing along in overdrive ( the DIY box has longer legs than the automatic ) , exhaust burbling as only a twin-pipe V8 can burble . |
| 13 | Your forefathers landed here only a few generations ago . |
| 14 | I have given here only a superficial account of the business of signatures but sufficient , I hope , to indicate something of their history , use and worth . |
| 15 | The interludes at the start of each act determine the character of the music for a time ( except for Interlude V , which is abruptly curtailed by the Barn Dance music of Act Three scene one , lending thereafter only a few sinister flecks of moonlight ) . |
| 16 | " Oh boy , " breathed Chuck Sherman , gazing longingly at the impenetrable green wall of tropical foliage slipping past only a few yards from the ship 's rail , " this is going to make the mountains of West Virginia seem a bit tame . |
| 17 | And here he is , ‘ duckering ’ his guv'nors and betters as only a plain-straight-talking Bristolian working man , with , erm , a huge sound system and a record deal , can . |
| 18 | The Network will have , as one of its strengths , the ability to carry ‘ live ’ events that now generate maybe only a package on a bulletin or a two-way interview on PM : press Conferences and select committees . |
| 19 | But the gem of the whole disc is Cordelia Brown , haunting as only a song in Caribbean rhythm can be , a sort of fast tango , which White sings with real love . |
| 20 | And it was composed either only a short time after those events by someone who played a role in them , or more probably by someone with direct access to the testimony of an eyewitness . |
| 21 | He felt like some programmed thing with a piece of its instructions missing , battering itself repeatedly against the same piece of wall while a door stood open only a few feet away . |
| 22 | There were relatively fewer pure gangster films after 1933 but there were a large number of social or ‘ social-problem ’ films although even they remained as only a small percentage of the total Hollywood package . |
| 23 | Not counting the number of times she put her fat face round the door & said , nodding and smiling as only a Frenchwoman can , with an air of delighted gaiety ( ! ) |
| 24 | I stayed there only a few days , and then for some reason I was removed to the Colegio Fray Luis de Leon , where I was given a somewhat larger and more comfortable room . |
| 25 | From St. Peter 's he went to Selby in 1836 , but stayed there only a year before returning as incumbent of Chadkirk Chapel in Romiley , where he served until his death in 1862 . |
| 26 | When his father died in 1933 Dawson inherited the family property in Yorkshire and went to live at Hartlington Hall , but stayed there only a few years because of his frail health . |
| 27 | He stayed there only a short time before moving to Gloucestershire where he has been ever since . |