Example sentences of "[noun sg] only [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is at present only one study , and that unpublished . |
| 2 | We shall have more to say about this in the next chapter : it was to produce a quite bewildering variety of ‘ reconstructions ’ of Jesus ' personality and history , having for the most part only one thing in common — the conviction that whatever the truth about him might be , it was not the traditional Christian picture of him . |
| 3 | There is of course only one way to prove how good the Sherpa Underblanket really is . |
| 4 | In the west London population in McKeigue and Leon 's study only one urine sample was used to define whether the subjects had microalbuminuria , whereas our subjects were characterised by overnight and daytime urine collections . |
| 5 | Of the forty-odd subheadings in the plan only two point explicitly towards drama , " Socratism in tragedy " ( under " aesthetics " ) and " The tragedians and the state " ( under " politics … " ) , although in the retrospective light of BT a considerable number of the others can be seen as bearing specifically on the tragic ethos : for instance , " music and poetry " , " Aristotle 's aesthetic " , " ecstatic art in Greece " , " Dionysus and Apollo " . |
| 6 | For firm B a going concern qualification would correctly predict failure only one time in five , while for firm C a going concern qualification would never be ‘ correct ’ in this sense , even though four times out of five investors in C would see a very substantial diminution in their wealth ( assuming an investment based on expected present values ) . |
| 7 | However , as there are only six notes in the system it is obvious that in four-part harmony without octave doublings only two notes can remain unused in each chord , and in five-part harmony only one note ; in six-part harmony all notes are used in each chord , even though the registers change . |
| 8 | It may simply mean that at this moment only one entrepreneur has taken the step of presenting this particular opportunity to the market . |
| 9 | The fact that at any given moment only one producer is making a particular product is not by itself an impairment of the competitive process . |
| 10 | We work , to my knowledge only one girl . |
| 11 | The cell developed at the Swiss Federation Institute of Technology in Lausanne superimposes a light-sensitive dye only one molecule thick on a thin layer of titanium dioxide , a commonly used industrial chemical . |
| 12 | In the event only one station , Hinkley Point A , was modified . |
| 13 | He considered the link between the money stock and aggregate demand shock only one period before , that is the policy parameter γ 1 and found , as we have , that the size of that policy parameter was unimportant . |
| 14 | He is going , Alida thought in despair , and no more is to be done , no examination is to be made , tranquillisers are the only treatment I am to have … . ‘ a full medical check-up only one month before . ’ |
| 15 | By last night only one victim remained in hospital — a 25-year-old man recovering from surgery to remove glass from his arm . |
| 16 | And coach Bill Calcraft , a lock in Australia 's 1984 Grand Slam-winning team , agrees : ‘ If we can get promotion , and it 's a big if because this season only one club goes up , I do believe the club , with all its superb facilities and tradition , can attract the players to put it in the top flight again . ’ |
| 17 | Hibs started the game only one point better off than the ailing home side , and they , too , needed to smarten up their ideas if the last quarter of the season were not to be fraught with danger . |
| 18 | He is aware , as we are all aware , that the sudden-death coronary shocks of the FA Cup offer only one kind of pain . |
| 19 | In total only four library authorities did not say that some money was available to be spent , from one source or another , although some named very small amounts : |
| 20 | If it extends in the 3' direction then the two molecules will together occupy 6 base pairs ( i.e. each one bound to GTT ) whereas if it extends in the 5'-direction only 4 base pairs will be covered by the two drug molecules ( i.e. drug is bound to CGT ) . |
| 21 | He had made a will only one month before and when Mr Smith reminded him that the lease of the office premises was due for renewal , he remarked that he would n't be needing them . |
| 22 | Since members of this genus form only one component of the total parasitic burdens of the large intestine , the other aspects of infection will be dealt with after a description of the life cycles and pathogenesis of the other genera . |
| 23 | The darker humour associated with ED 209 , which does indeed look quite large and threatening at first ( and not at all like a model only one foot ( 30cm ) high , which it is ) is typified when it , in error , riddles a young executive with machine-gun bullets on its first official presentation and the stunned silence is broken by a cry of ‘ Someone send for a paramedic ! ’ |
| 24 | But in a few more months , Joyce wrote his apologia and made it clear that despite their apparent freedom of choice , there was in reality only one decision that he could have taken : |
| 25 | For instance , in the hypothetical case of the Peruvian bladder-grass , there is in reality only one class of plants . |
| 26 | Uhlenhorst , from Germany , have held the European Cup for the past four years and during their reign only one club , Atletico Terrassa , of Spain , have maintained a challenge to this supremacy . |
| 27 | To establish if a pupil can be sustained within St Augustine 's ( to date only one panel declined to accept a pupil ) . |
| 28 | In Germany , owning Nazi material is legally akin to hard drug possession , but to date only one arrest has been made . |
| 29 | To date only two research studies , based on fundholding practices in the south of England , have published any results . |
| 30 | For a text-to-speech system only one parse can be accepted and failed parses are unacceptable . |