Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] only a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | No , they would not serve only a drink , she should recall that . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Their frustration that they would always remain only a mummy could be challenged . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The regulations will sometimes affect only a manufacturer ( e.g. where they govern design or composition ) . |
7 | 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 ’ . |