Example sentences of "[conj] only a [adj] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the key elements of ‘ owlness ’ were absent , or only a few were present , the birds showed some curiosity about the dummy but were not stimulated to perform the full mobbing response . |
| 2 | The trouble is that only a few are privileged to see that side . |
| 3 | Anthropology had begun the slow erosion of certainty of the absolute superiority of European civilization , although only a few were aware of what was happening . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sure that the majority of runners have to get money because you can not survive without it , and only a few are in a position to do otherwise . ’ |
| 5 | First , there is the question of condition : with a few exceptions the books listed have their entire life in front of them , certainly hundreds of years , and only a few are even what the booksellers would call ‘ reading copies ’ . |
| 6 | The Laboulbeniales demonstrate a high degree of host specificity , and by this criterion are highly advanced ; most infect only a single species of arthropod , or at most a small group of closely related host species , and only a few are known to occur on a variety of distantly related hosts . |
| 7 | Seeds are projected from the tree and only a few are actually germinated to continue that species . |
| 8 | The Austrian students have an entrance examination and only a few are allowed to enter annually . |
| 9 | The disadvantage of the latter system is that there is a tendency to stuff all the envelopes in a section with the material simply because it is easier than going through m all , and because the gaps will have to be made up envelopes wasted if only a few are to left out of one section . |
| 10 | A number of salts are found in the soils of arid regions but only a few are generally quantitatively significant — , , , , , and KCI . |