Example sentences of "[adj] only [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children with special needs have long been welcomed into playgroups or mother and toddler groups but members have tended to worry on two counts — first , that only a minority of families with children with special needs were finding their way to playgroup , and second that the playgroup was not fully able to meet the children 's needs . |
| 2 | Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status . |
| 3 | After that only a matter of confidence . |
| 4 | Each side claims to want mutual disarmament most of all , and claims , furthermore , that only the aggressiveness of the other side prevents this . |
| 5 | It is claimed , however , that only the female of the species is fertilized . |
| 6 | It was argued earlier that only the use of higher level knowledge will enable any additional success . |
| 7 | Nor is this only a question of a difference between writing and speech , as might at first appear . |
| 8 | The Education Reform Act 1988 has produced a degree of prescription and central control to which the government was apparently resistant only a couple of years before its enactment . |
| 9 | In the 1840s only a quarter of London 's newcomers ended up south of the Thames , but during the following three decades the proportion grew to a third . |
| 10 | By 2040 only a handful of currency dealers remained , huddled in tatty offices in Tirana and Ulan Bator , trading the lek against the tugrik . |
| 11 | It seems reasonable that they should share the cost of what is after all only a system of humane debt collection acting on their behalves . |
| 12 | LEFT Home computers were unheard-of only a couple of decades ago ; now they have become routine magic' . |
| 13 | In general only a minority of holidays are affected in this way and most changes to the published arrangements are small and whenever possible these changes will be advised at the time of booking or as quickly as possible after they occur . |
| 14 | This improvement became available only a couple of years ago in the shape of Gore-Tex booties . |
| 15 | By 1957–58 only a quarter of male students were manual workers and men were down to 42% of the total student body . |
| 16 | When IBM 's AT ( the 286 based computer ) was launched in late 1984 , it ran at 8MHz , but it was n't long before faster and faster oscillator speeds were used — a 25MHz 286 based machine was quite common only a couple of years ago . |
| 17 | This is usually achieved easily enough by line breeding , though if the mutated genes are not dominant only a percentage of each brood is likely to be of the new form . |
| 18 | But we can be fairly confident , as a starting-point , that Rizzio , Darnley and Bothwell , chief actors in the drama of the last two years of her personal rule , are at best only a part of the explanation . |
| 19 | In the 1950s only a quarter of the growth in sales of electricity to domestic consumers came from newly-connected homes and another quarter from the extended use of existing appliances , but as much as half came from newly-purchased appliances . |