Example sentences of "[coord] only a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ] ) . |
| 2 | We must have done because they talked , as we drove , of common friends we had had at that time , but I remembered none of them — or only a name , here and there . |
| 3 | Sometimes forks would appear on the right and knives on the left ‘ sometimes ( Henry always felt this was Maisie 's way of telling people they were not welcome ) two knives or only a spoon . |
| 4 | Some of them took great satisfaction in provocative statements of their position : there is no such thing as law , they said , or law is only the prediction of what the courts will do or only a matter of what the judge ate for breakfast . |
| 5 | It is non-productive however , to treat only a kitchen , or only a canteen , as pest infestations occur in all parts of buildings . |
| 6 | Even when the lexemes are the same , they may be used very differently in address and reference ( see e.g. Beck , 1972 : 290ff for Tamil usage ) , or only a sub-set of the reference terms may be used in address . |
| 7 | And only a Wall , a Seal , between the two . |
| 8 | The World Bank reckons that on most measures of welfare it ranks down with much of sub-Saharan Africa , and only a bit above Haiti . |
| 9 | They had no windows or windscreen and only a canopy and storm curtains for protection . |
| 10 | Wakefield was a court creature , and only a draught animal at that . |
| 11 | He was alone at the centre of driving lines of grey and wet , and only a will that had already taken him across wide seas and a wider continent drove him forward . |
| 12 | The pupil is very large and only a portion of the iris is present , so the eye appears dark in colour . |
| 13 | It contains a sensible stimulus , a great deal more federal spending , an energy tax , a guarantee of higher income tax for people and companies and only a promise of future spending cuts . |
| 14 | Disease , and only a year later — they 're dead ? |
| 15 | Queen 's Bench Masters ' Practice Direction of 25 March , 1988 requires that where an order is made transferring an action from the Queen 's Bench Division to a county court , the party having carriage of the order by himself or his solicitor shall forthwith produce at the Filing Department of the Central Office the order transferring the action and shall file : ( 1 ) a copy of the order transferring the action ; ( 2 ) a statement of the names and addresses of the parties and of their solicitors ; ( 3 ) copies of any pleadings served ; ( 4 ) if he is the plaintiff and has not served a statement of claim , particulars of his claim together with a copy for each defendant ; ( 5 ) if he is the defendant and only a counterclaim is transferred and no counterclaim has been served , particulars of the counterclaim together with a copy for the plaintiff ; ( 6 ) where money has been paid into court , a copy of the notice of payment into court ; ( 7 ) a statement of the index numbers of any affidavits filed . |
| 16 | Rock is n't the art form of the chattering classes and only a minority of its practitioners have any expertise in elucidating a rigorous conceptual rationale for their work . |
| 17 | Bournville , the community that has grown up around Cadbury 's Birmingham factory , is widely regarded as a company town , although from its foundation it has been open to people who do not work for the company and only a minority of the residents now have any link with Cadbury 's . |
| 18 | It should be stressed that this complication is rare , and only a minority of cases go on to develop long-term problems . |
| 19 | This has been recognised in particular by UK companies , and only a minority of large UK companies do not now use graphical means of data presentation in their corporate annual reports . |
| 20 | The majority of obese individuals will have one parent who is overweight , and only a minority would be the offspring of two obese or two thin parents . |
| 21 | On average , both sexes achieve 80% of the employment rate in the general population over 16 years , with no reduction in working hours and only a minority reporting prolonged sick leave . |
| 22 | Indeed , in the first series of patients only 72% were bleeding from varices , haemostatic treatment was not uniform and only a minority were treated with sclerotherapy . |
| 23 | Thus only a parent may see information on the record concerning the pupil 's racial group , language or religion , and only a parent may see a statement of special educational needs ( under the Education Act 1981 — see Chapter 4 ) or results of the pupil 's assessment . |
| 24 | With no food and only a couple of bottles of Lucozade in the car , she knew that if the delay lasted much longer , her blood glucose could fall to such a dangerously low level , that she risked slipping into a diabetic coma . |
| 25 | The vegetation was covered in snow , and only a couple of Arctic and one pomarine skua flew past . |
| 26 | Siemens Nixdorf is in as bad a way as IBM , and only a couple of years behind Bull , and that simply because the German public sector still has n't realised it 's crazy to pay $50,000 or more per MIPS for computing power . |
| 27 | There are no parrots in Madame Bovary or Bouvard et Pécuchet , no entry for PERROQUET in the Dictionnaire des idées reçues ; and only a couple of brief mentions in La Tentation de saint Antoine . |
| 28 | Gilbert tried to scream , but his mouth was clamped shut by Rohmer 's grip and only a ululating , muffled howl vibrated from his throat . |
| 29 | Even in these circumstances project support would still in all cases be cheaper than hospital care , and in four cases cheaper than residential care ( and only a proportion of these clients would have been considered eligible for residential care ) . |
| 30 | Indeed , competition may be so fierce that pricing is based on a Contribution basis , that is , covering variable costs and only a proportion of the business ' fixed costs . |