Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] with only [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Go , for example , to a meeting of the European Space Agency and the place will be crawling with European technical journalists with only a few desultory Brits , as often as not from the show-biz pages . |
| 2 | In effect this is already starting to happen through television concentration on a few top clubs with only a brief nod in the direction of the rest . |
| 3 | At thirty-two , he was young enough not to look completely haggard , even after thirty-six hours with only the odd hour 's sleep , but his dark hair was plastered to his head and the brown eyes were sunk back in his head and reddened with smoke and exhaustion . |
| 4 | It was a huge house , too big to survive as a single occupied unit ; a developer had stripped it out and done a thorough conversion to make it into four self-contained apartments with only the hall and stairs common to each . |
| 5 | Three times astute passes by Tony Cottee , Gary Ablett and Peter Beardsley ripped through the Liverpool defence but three times with only the goalkeeper to beat , Barlow failed even to hit the target . |
| 6 | This area became our most precious place ; where we took the children to teach them how to fish ; to watch black , and red-throated divers , golden eagle , golden plover , greenshank and dunlin ; where we could walk endless miles with only the sky and the wind for company . |
| 7 | The true jellyfish spend most of their time as free-floating medusae with only the minimum period fixed to the rocks . |
| 8 | Some of the technology the group is using such as speculative loads has never been used before and as a result the designers believe the specification will stand unmodified for the next twenty years with only a few extensions . |
| 9 | It had four companies with only a 67 per cent . |
| 10 | Richmann glared back down the road at the settling dust , and seethed that two men with only a double-barrelled shotgun could get away from him . |
| 11 | I can only hazard a guess at what it must have been like to sail in a typical convoy , with bombers and submarines liable to strike at any moment , or to brave the Western Approaches with only a couple of inches of rusting metal between yourself and the enemy . |