Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] only a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In mud wrestling both fighters wear only a jockstrap . |
| 2 | However , too often , their attitudes reveal only a narrowness of mind and a sad lack of common humanity , ’ she said . |
| 3 | As children grow up , and the pedal bike becomes the motorbike , they have areas to test their skills , where tumbles cause only a bruise or a tear . |
| 4 | Note that the target struck by the cauldron suffers a strength 5 hit , while remaining targets suffer only a strength 3 hit . |
| 5 | Aides know only a TV or radio employee could have taken the tape . |
| 6 | The settlement of the barbarians was plainly varied , and our sources provide only a hint of its complexities . |
| 7 | Firstly , such figures give only an average , and some men would therefore do far less well . |
| 8 | FIRMS have only a week left to apply for an enterprise initiative which pays half their consultancy fees . |
| 9 | In the zero-address computers discussed in the next section , some instructions require only an operation code field while others require an operand specification as well , so considerable variation in instruction length is possible . |
| 10 | It is better to keep a pair — adult males have long ‘ bristles ’ on their heads , while females have only a fringe of very short tentacles around the snout . |
| 11 | These examples give only a hint of the technical finagling that went on in the research centres . |
| 12 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 13 | Some hot lemon drinks contain only a painkiller as the active ingredient and these can cost a lot more than an unbranded painkiller . |
| 14 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that free markets need only a system of laws and not all that bureaucracy ? |
| 15 | With the exception of the GP , 1985 GHS data indicate that services reach only a minority of these two groups ( Table 7.7 ) . |
| 16 | Most transactions involving operational information produce paper as their by-product ( e.g. till receipts , credit card vouchers , tickets , prescription forms , invoices , and statements ) , but paper records represent only a fragment of the material in electronic form . |
| 17 | Yet others have only an interlude in the relative minor between two sections in the tonic . |
| 18 | Mortals see only a river or a hill , but somewhere on another plane , these natural objects are fierce , lusty or romantic men and women . |