Example sentences of "[vb infin] only a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The hall should have only a minimum of furniture in it , and nothing too near to the bottom of the stairs which could increase her injuries if she fell . |
| 32 | I detest William S. Rubin , former head of Paintings and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art in New York , who spotted the deception too late , and then unintentionally justified the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ by stating that ‘ the Reina Sofia will find it hard to acquire a collection of twentieth-century masterpieces to match ‘ Guernica ’ ’ , and that its removal reflected a wish to ‘ attract crowds to a museum which would otherwise have only a handful of visitors ’ . |
| 33 | Apart from the difficult steering in a heavy following sea our suspect could maintain only a speed of about five knots . |
| 34 | No , they would not serve only a drink , she should recall that . |
| 35 | Brearley did his best , but four were still needed off the last ball and he could manage only a single . |
| 36 | The minister would retain only a right of intervention if hospitals or health authorities ‘ abused ’ their freedom to develop pay-beds at will . |
| 37 | They are class-blind , in that the programme may reach only a minority , and separates this elite from the bulk of girls who are defined as failures and frequently pushed into opposition to the school 's programme . |
| 38 | Elisabeth , whose knowledge and love of Møn were demonstrable , could afford only a week 's visit annually . |
| 39 | Of the five candidates for the leadership , two will get only a handful of votes . |
| 40 | Any cuts would be on top of production line redundancies and would come only a year after GM finished cutbacks which slashed its white-collar staff by 40,000 to 140,000 worldwide . |
| 41 | Its main power over the economy lies in its control of the central bank , but Mr Yeltsin has made the bank promise that it will issue only a quarter as much credit in the second three months of the year as it did in the first . |
| 42 | Five years ago , he said , Ash could list only a handful of companies with smoking restrictions . |
| 43 | The RHA could foresee only a worsening of the position on mental health . |
| 44 | The demand for personal freedom , a recurrent feature in late medieval peasant society , does not reflect only a wish for improved social status , but also a hope for potential economic advantages . |
| 45 | Accordingly , the difference between the groups on the generalization test might reflect only a difference in the amount of associative strength acquired in the aversive conditioning phase . |
| 46 | A chital hind may last only a day but a chital stag weighing up to 200 lb ( 90 kg ) will feed a tiger for two or three days . |
| 47 | Because of the heavy outlays which will be required to develop the field , profits eventually flowing to the companies would represent only a fraction of the value of the oil , particularly after various taxes have been applied . |
| 48 | It was always assumed that Urban Programme funding would represent only a proportion of total expenditure in the Partnerships — most would come through a diversion of mainstream budgets to the benefit of the older urban cores . |
| 49 | I should ask only a smile in return … ’ |
| 50 | ‘ Schemes will help only a fraction of three million people out of work ’ |