Example sentences of "[prep] only a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not be the number of establishments , since many of these will account for only a relatively small proportion of the total output . |
| 2 | By any reckoning , the path into the future is exceptionally perilous and uncertain for this generation , and political sociology , I fear , can at best illumine it for only a relatively short distance ahead . |
| 3 | Other components of the cuticle account for only a very small part of its weight but are of great physiological significance . |
| 4 | After all , the physical facts of life are commonplace throughout the universe ; the biological , so far as we know , are peculiar to this planet and then for only a very brief part of its history . |
| 5 | He will recall that inflation never fell below 7.4 per cent. , and that for only a very brief period , while the Labour party was in Government . |
| 6 | However , that buying policy seems to have existed for only a very short period and to have been an aberration , as indeed is Fishbane 's reign . |
| 7 | Indeed on being presented with a picture , pupils may look at it for only a very short time and give only the most cursory replies when questioned about various features . |
| 8 | The reasoning in the lawyer/client cases can not automatically be transferred to the financial services area because of the particular nature of the lawyer/client relationship including the fact that in order to prove a breach of confidence a client might be forced to forfeit the lawyer/client privilege , and that the very restrictive Law Society rules provide for only a very limited role for the Chinese wall where law firms amalgamate and the clients consent . |
| 9 | These parties I 'm talking about only a very dumb blonde would ask questions . |
| 10 | Everything eaten turns to wind and they may feel full and distended after only a very few mouthfuls with momentary relief ( > ) from belching . |
| 11 | Black holes are one of only a fairly small number of cases in the history of science in which a theory was developed in great detail as a mathematical model before there was any evidence from observations that it was correct . |
| 12 | Developments in the creative and performing arts coincided with only a slightly later phase . |
| 13 | Yet , with only a slowly emerging technical understanding of how to build on the large scale in durable materials and with immense difficulties of transport , lack of communications and inadequacy of power , vast buildings were erected and these cathedrals and churches of Romanesque Europe still stand as testimony to the determination of man when his spirit is sufficiently aroused . |
| 14 | To have seen it is associated with a more positive attitude towards SSE , not to have seen it with a neutral attitude ; to recall it well is associated with an even more positive attitude towards SSE , not to recall it well with only a mildly positive attitude ; to associate changes with its use with a very positive attitude ; not to do so with only a mildly positive attitude . |
| 15 | To have seen it is associated with a more positive attitude towards SSE , not to have seen it with a neutral attitude ; to recall it well is associated with an even more positive attitude towards SSE , not to recall it well with only a mildly positive attitude ; to associate changes with its use with a very positive attitude ; not to do so with only a mildly positive attitude . |
| 16 | But when we talk about our conscious experiences we are providing our listener with only a very crude approximation to the actual phenomenal content of experience . |
| 17 | These days , when she occasionally took over from Annunciata and brushed Mrs Browning 's hair , she marvelled that a woman so much older than herself should still have such black , black hair with only a very few silver threads in it ( which she was instructed to pull out ) . |
| 18 | He 's taught many a Clubrep to ski and with only a very few exceptions , he can virtually guarantee to get you up and around the bay first time . |
| 19 | With only a very slight hesitation she launched into her part . |
| 20 | Thus the greater the earning potential of non-money assets , the less will be the demand for money ( with its zero earning potential in the case of M0 and much of M1 , and with only a relatively low earning potential in the case of broader definitions ) . |
| 21 | The unexpected news , however , was that Edward Balliol himself had here , for some unknown reason , left his army and with only a comparatively small escort of possibly five hundred men , struck off north-eastwards into the Ettrick Forest hills in the direction of St Mary 's Loch and Selkirk . |
| 22 | This project was therefore able to draw on findings from only a relatively small number of other experimental services . |
| 23 | In addition he has stressed the crankish nature of many of its supporters and the fact that it drew that support from only a very small section of the working class — even though they may have formed a significant proportion of the BUF 's small membership of between 5,000 and 40,000 members throughout the 1930s . |
| 24 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 25 | The route from gene to observed effect can be very tortuous and has been worked out in only a very few cases so far . |
| 26 | So far , we have looked at the external environment in only a very general kind of way . |
| 27 | Indeed , large deletions of this domain in dystrophin result in only a very mild phenotype . |
| 28 | This procedure is different from an appeal in only a very formal sense . |
| 29 | This has several drawbacks , including the fact that even when all the weak stems of the words in a search co-occur , they may do so in only a very few records , and there may be other relevant records retrievable by adding one or more strong stems . |
| 30 | He comes to a similar conclusion to that of the classical theorists of the nineteenth century : face-to-face contacts are many and multifarious , but they are again secondary , fractionalised and based on only a very partial knowledge of a particular individual . |