Example sentences of "[conj] only a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information collected about the relatives of cancer patients showed that only a minority have anything more than superficial contact with the staff caring for the patient , and a number of these relatives would have welcomed an opportunity to share their anxiety , not only about the patient but about their own feelings ( Bond , 1982 ) . |
| 2 | He said this knowing that the architects were designing for a larger site quite unaware that only a portion had been authorized . |
| 3 | However , although only a minority affected by it develop microcephaly and other conditions associated with mental handicap , it is common and attempts have been made to develop a vaccine which would prevent potential damage . |
| 4 | On average , both sexes achieve 80% of the employment rate in the general population over 16 years , with no reduction in working hours and only a minority reporting prolonged sick leave . |
| 5 | But the actual letter survives and only a mind predisposed to suspect the sender could think it pompous : ‘ After the most careful consideration I have decided , if you are willing that I should do so , to recommend your name for the succession to the see of Durham . ’ |
| 6 | Even for those who reach the last year of secondary school , only about 50 per cent pass the matriculation exam , and only a handful achieve the higher grade of ‘ matric exemption ’ which is required for university entrance . |
| 7 | There 's a party at Liston Hall tonight ; he could have gone , but instead he 's here , same as every night , in this hundred-year-old hunting lodge with its rambling outbuildings and its faulty generator and only a photograph to talk to . |
| 8 | Most of the southern states score particularly badly on economic discrimination , but only a minority do so on the third and none do on the first . |
| 9 | People , after all , are often involved in disputes and difficulties with their relatives , but only a minority commit suicide . |
| 10 | Two years ago I planted over sixty daffodils , they all seem to have come up , produced plenty of foliage , quite a few had flower buds , but only a handful managed to actually flower . |
| 11 | It was hard for the active trade unionist of the day to believe that W.P.Lind could combine the secretaryship of the London Seamen 's Protection Society with his role as Superintendent Registrar for the Port of London or that his organisation , with large numbers of members on its books but only a handful paying contributions , was not actually in the hands of the shipping interests . |
| 12 | The computer did not plan an Agnes or a Paul , but only a prototype known as a human being , giving rise to a large number of specimens which are based on the original model and have n't any individual essence . |
| 13 | Because only a logomachist weaves a rope of sand when the saints go marching in . |
| 14 | He was , I think , even more solipsistic than I was : self-centred as only a man constrained within his own view of what constituted his masculinity could be . |