Example sentences of "[vb infin] only a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the South Midlands and a few other areas where farm labourers could earn only a pittance crafts that employed mothers and daughters provided welcome extra income . |
| 2 | From this month on , junkies need make only a telephone call to exchange their used , possibly-AIDS bearing , needles for new clean ones , delivered free of charge . |
| 3 | ‘ Shush , Mamma , ’ Rosa had said , and then Sabina had come in again with the bird — it would make only a bite to eat . |
| 4 | Schemes for the unemployed , such as community work , might be helpful for those involved but would cover only a fraction of the three million people out of work , he said . |
| 5 | Their frustration that they would always remain only a mummy could be challenged . |
| 6 | The regulations will sometimes affect only a manufacturer ( e.g. where they govern design or composition ) . |
| 7 | The Committee can consider only a fraction of the instruments laid before Parliament . |
| 8 | You will need only a smear of oil for the face ; if you drench the skin , oil is liable to seep into your partners eyes . |
| 9 | It would need only a charge of the cavalry , or a shot fired over their heads , to set them off . |
| 10 | In most cases the answer will include only a fraction of the total . |
| 11 | Here I can sketch only a part of that answer — although , as might be expected after seven years , I can also now take it a little further . |
| 12 | Each class is given a credit rating ( normally one credit per class , but some half-classes like Quantitative Methods or Computing , which are obligatory in the Business School , may carry only a half credit ) . |
| 13 | Many of the coaxial links in the ground today can carry only a handful of different channels at the same time . |
| 14 | The other EDC members would allocate only a proportion of their armed forces to the European army . |
| 15 | I always look forward to his waking up , he looks so antediluvian he makes me feel only a girl again . |
| 16 | Rupert Rosser , a villager and member of the GVPG , thinks a bypass would divert only a fraction of the traffic . |
| 17 | I would n't be surprised to learn that many people do now smoke only a quarter of their cigarettes on the bed when worried , simply because they have seen it so often in films . |
| 18 | THE law stipulates that on school days people under the age of 16 can work only a maximum of two hours . |
| 19 | When he thought back over it , as he lay on the bunk and water drips splattered every eleven seconds between his ankles , he could remember only a film of excitement that had wrapped him . |
| 20 | ( In fact we will use only a dichotomy of age by crudely grouping people above and below 45 , but we shall ignore that complication for the time being . ) |
| 21 | Although I believe that hysteria , as classically defined , can provide only a part of the answer to the problem of anorexia nervosa , it is a starting-point and , in the light of Szasz 's observation that ‘ hysterical conversion is best regarded as a process of translation , ’ I propose to translate the history of my own symptoms back into the language in which they were intended to be expressed . |
| 22 | With limited space , it is unavoidable that I can provide only a summary of the work of a very active Association , but I thought your readers would be interested to know that schools are not being neglected . |
| 23 | ‘ Although the applicants would employ only a fraction of the present dock labour force , the proposal would provide an active economic use at an early date following the closure of the yard . |
| 24 | Below is a list of equipment which is available for use in Home Corner areas , though quite obviously any one Home Corner will contain only a selection of the items mentioned . |
| 25 | It may well take only a quarter of an hour to train a worker in the future but industry is also going to have to change how it treats that worker . |
| 26 | Volvo 's over-the-counter US shares jumped more than $5 on word of a merger with Renault , while Jaguar — the object of a run-up since Ford hinted at takeover plans two weeks ago — fell nearly a dollar on word that rival General Motors will take only a minority share in the British car maker . |
| 27 | The Chancellor said that together with changes in tobacco and alcohol duty , the changes would produce only a quarter of a percentage point increase in inflation compared with indexation . |
| 28 | The new information will indicate that the project will succeed or fail but the information itself will have only a probability of being correct . |
| 29 | The new information will indicate that the project will succeed or fail but the information itself will have only a probability of being correct . |
| 30 | You know , particularly , you know the female may have only a state pension you know the part state pension nothing else coming in , and a lot of these accounts are still net , not gross , so the revenue have got money to give away , and they 're quite happy to do that providi providing that people tap them on the shoulder . |