Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] only a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Some 40 per cent of women with gonorrhoea are found to harbour the bug in the rectum and it is clear that in only a minority of cases has the gonococcus been ‘ placed ’ there . |
| 2 | The issue of competence to carry out a review is critical considering that in only a quarter of all cases were outsiders much involved . |
| 3 | The dividing wall holding this tank only attracts sunlight from one side and for only a couple of hours a day , and only at the height of summer . |
| 4 | To date we 've printed several thousand pages of WP text , DTP and Graphics , all without a hitch , and with only a couple of paper mis-feeds . |
| 5 | The shutdown yesterday by Huddersfield 's eight main minicab firms , all Asian-owned and with only a handful of non-Asian staff , followed a fatal stabbing in the most serious incident in an outbreak of violence involving drivers and their customers . |
| 6 | In all three cases the method of construction was changed , with turf on a stone , or part-stone , platform at Brough and Rochester and with only a palisade at Caister . |
| 7 | We established that she and Sir Richard are lovers , adulterers , fornicators , and in only a matter of time we could have had a confession that they were guilty of Sir Thomas 's death as well as the . |
| 8 | Airdrie are anchored at the foot of the Premier Division , but with only a couple of points separating the bottom three clubs , they are not yet adrift , and a good run could yet make them safe . |
| 9 | The late Armand Hammer 's museum , which opened in December 1990 with a lavish $60 million building by Edward Larrabee Barnes ( likened by one critic to a consulate in a Middle Eastern emirate ) , but with only a $36 million endowment , has come under the management of the adjacent University of California at Los Angeles . |
| 10 | Put in perspective , that was equivalent to the achievement of the whole of Fighter Command during a day at the height of the Battle of Britain , but with only a handful of men and stores involved . |