Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | From March 1918 it was clear that only a crushing military victory by one or other side would bring ‘ peace ’ . |
| 2 | After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital . |
| 3 | Schools are given the same written guidelines as in the Major Project , but it is made clear that only a short proposal document is required to accompany the school 's spending plan . |
| 4 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |
| 5 | In the preface , the editor of the catalogue makes it clear that only a representative selection of coins is listed . |
| 6 | The cost of freehold land is so high that only a wealthy man who farms intensively can hope to make a living on his own small farm . |
| 7 | A sheltered housing project in Thornaby has proved so popular that only a few flats are left . |
| 8 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 9 | President Bush had stated on Aug. 2 that only a health problem — which he stressed did not currently exist — would deter him from seeking re-election for a second term . |
| 10 | It is interesting that only a few years ago Mr Albert Baker of Baker Bros. , Upper Halling , paid the Vicar part of the cost of wood he had cut in Halling woods . |
| 11 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 12 | But Gallagher does not decide this and only a House of Lords judgment on the point can resolve the uncertainty . |
| 13 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 14 | Of the two types of bend tests the four-point is the more reliable since only a pure bending moment is applied to the centre section of the beam and the relation becomes exact , for small curvature , since the deformation is truly into a circular arc . |
| 15 | It is possible that only a very marked and rapid reduction in interest rates , which might cause a substantial shift in confidence , would be effective . |
| 16 | depending on whether we take the " " mayden " " as a vocative ( i.e. " girl , I love no one more than thee " ) or as the object of the lost verb of line 14 , whereby the -clause becomes a restrictive relative clause ( " I love no maiden more than you … " [ but I might love some just as much or only a bit less ] ) . |
| 17 | He said this knowing that the architects were designing for a larger site quite unaware that only a portion had been authorized . |
| 18 | On the other hand , if the scores of the standardisation sample were such that only a very small proportion — say , 5 per cent — scored 40 or less , then a child with this score may be identified as being in need of further , more detailed assessment . |
| 19 | The demands of such actions for lawyers ' services are such that only a large and complex firm can meet them , with corresponding implications for costs , restricting , in turn , the availability of such services to all but the wealthiest . |
| 20 | This limits the number of possible combinations such that only a few examples exist in this category . |
| 21 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 22 | But the judge said : ‘ This offence is so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified . |
| 23 | The men who led the Cracow revolutionary movement ( the Polish insurrection of 1830 ) were deeply convinced that only a democratic Poland could be independent , and a democratic Poland was impossible without the abolition of feudal rights , without the agrarian movement which would transform the tied peasants into free proprietors . |
| 24 | He came back several times , quite convinced that only a little greater effort would supply him with the treat he had in mind . |
| 25 | Many were convinced that only a proletarian revolution could remove discrimination . |
| 26 | The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known . |
| 27 | The second method is appropriate when only a small number of arithmetic operations are to be performed on each of a large number of initial items of data . |
| 28 | It was as simple as only a barefaced lie could be . |
| 29 | Each on its own seemed admirable and only a small addition to the government 's total expenditure . |
| 30 | He chose a way of loving which was so outrageous and costly that only a few friends could follow him into his dark night of the soul . |