Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] only a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight owned only a morning Paper ( such as the Liverpool Daily Post ) and a ninth , Outram 's , owned two in the same town ( Glasgow ) . |
| 2 | A smaller 9.6 volt model is also offered , but this has only a 330mm ( 13in ) cutting capacity , and takes 12 hours to recharge . |
| 3 | Remember part of that time we were in div 2 getting only a fraction of the TV and Sponsorship money that Scum and Scouse were getting . |
| 4 | This lasts only a second or two . |
| 5 | When cΔt exceeds Δr , the interval is positive and P 2 can be reached from P 1 by travelling at a velocity less than the speed of light ; the interval is called time-like because we can choose an inertial frame such that r 1 = r 2 leaving only a time separation between the two events . |
| 6 | Yet this provides only a part of the explanation . |
| 7 | The evident ascendancy of conservatives , who succeeded in getting one of their number elected as leader of the new party , appeared to bode ill for President Mikhail Gorbachev , the CPSU general secretary , at the crucial 28th CPSU congress , due to open only a fortnight later . |
| 8 | Without the information contained in the parish register , one might reasonably suppose that Joseph and Ann had three children , who were each to receive only a shilling unless Ann remarried , upon which occasion they would inherit the entire estate . |
| 9 | Figure 4.1 shows only a difference according to sex of speaker , but as this is quite consistent between generations , it has another quality : it is also a stable variable . |
| 10 | The basic problem remained , as always , the cost of providing a service to a large number of individual freight terminals , many receiving only a handful of wagons each week . |
| 11 | Support staff , numerically increased in some areas , but threatened with further reductions in others , are able to reach only a minority of the estimated number of children in need of special attention . |
| 12 | Things which affect the person as a whole are of much greater importance than those affecting only a part . |
| 13 | I have been able to offer only a summary of the GR-1 's facilities , knowing that the curious amongst you will want to seek one out and demand a ‘ hands on ’ demo at your leisure . |
| 14 | That lasted only a minute though , so I tipped the wheelbarrow on its side and hauled the dead weight to the second track , which proved even worse than the first . |
| 15 | Yasmin 's brother brought her to London from their home in Bradford for the day , but meeting at the tube station proved nearly impossible , as we each had only a telephone description of the other and had unfortunately arranged to meet the same Saturday as a huge poll tax march . |
| 16 | Since it was possible to examine only a sample of such studies , what follows is aimed to reflect the fact of risk related fertility patterns rather than to give an accounting of the extent and paths of influence . |