Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] only a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | But when morning came , bright and clear with only a slight breeze , it arrived alone . |
| 3 | The evidence suggests that they are often indifferent to their educational attainment and are interested in only a narrow range of basic skills or in traditional education for the ‘ high-fliers ’ . |
| 4 | It is significant , however , that the feedback involved is fairly simple , and dependent on only a few physical parameters , so that the computations concerned are relatively inflexible . |
| 5 | Each such coherent structure is identifiable for only a limited time . |
| 6 | In fact , the diamonds we see in jewellers ' windows are typical of only a small percentage of natural diamonds . |
| 7 | After 1967 , when it was no longer a separate organisation , it had to be content with only a provisional annual budget . |
| 8 | The arm spines of A. palmeri are very different from Mortensen 's specimen ; they are thick with a very distinct hook , the arm spines of A. otteri are slender with only a small hook , like those of the Ingolf specimens . |
| 9 | Of course we should n't have expected anything , but Mary and I would have felt rich with only a thousand pounds each , and St John would have been able to help so many more poor people ! ’ |
| 10 | It was possible with only a small selection of gouges to find the appropriate one to fit the circumference of the eyeball , using the gouge on both sides . |
| 11 | However , in 1971 Gerard 't Hooft showed that a unified model of the electromagnetic and weak interactions that had been proposed earlier by Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg was indeed renormalizable with only a finite number of infinite subtractions . |
| 12 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 13 | This feature allows the virus to persist in the environment even though its host , the insect larva , may be present for only a few weeks during the year . |
| 14 | Lochryan shore sport poor with only a few dogfish from Old House Point and Lefnol . |
| 15 | Cytochrome P450 was present in only a small proportion of normal colon samples , whereas epoxide hydrolase and glutathione S-transferase β were identified in about half , and glutathione S-transferase α and γ in most normal samples . |
| 16 | It is interesting that the anion-cation charge transfer is so marked in and and that they are stable in only a few inorganic solvents — eg liquid . |
| 17 | However , analysis of genotype-phenotype association is possible in only a few frequent mutations ; the majority of the mutations are rare . |
| 18 | At higher Re the flow becomes turbulent in only a small fraction of the total length and so the variations in flow rate are again too small . |
| 19 | It is true that Edinburgh University is active in more than one of the earth science sub-fields — geology per se , geophysics , geochemistry , mineralogy , geomorphology etc. — whereas some universities are strong in only a single sub-field , such as palaeontology . |
| 20 | Each of those four nations er really ought to test the software pretty thoroughly before they hand it over but because er we could n't afford four lots of test equipment we said right , ship your software out , in tested to only a modest level and it 'll all be tested centrally in the Deutsch Aerospace facility . |
| 21 | Proper buffet cars are economic on only a small handful of their routes , notably Waterloo-Bournemouth . |
| 22 | Detailed experimental analyses of wing-movements during flight are available for only a few species and probably differ in different insects ( Weis-Fogh , 1956a , 1956b ; Jensen , 1956 ; Jensen and Weis-Fogh , 1962 ; Nachtigall , 1966 ; Neville , 1960 ; Vogel , 1966–67 ) . |
| 23 | That is why , to date , food has been available through only a limited number of channels . |
| 24 | The fourth attribute demanded by George Corner , that of understanding , is possible for the first time in the history of civilization ; but it is a possibility which so far is available to only a small minority of specialists . |
| 25 | At high stepping rates each phase is excited for only a short time interval and the build.up time of the phase current is a significant proportion of the excitation interval . |
| 26 | Despite having been in the open for only a few seconds , they had been soaked . |
| 27 | One of man 's great intellectual adventures — the exploration and understanding of his own nervous system — is progressing at a rate undreamed of only a few decades ago . |
| 28 | While arbitrage is open to any investor , these two alternatives strategies , which will now be explained , are open to only a limited number of investors . |
| 29 | The oral shield may be rhombic or rounded triangular with only a slight distal projection . |
| 30 | In general symptoms are mild and admission to hospital is necessary in only a few cases . |