Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] only a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , autonomous replication occurs in only 50-70% of the transformants , suggesting a defect in the recognition of the Tetrahymena telomeric template by the putative P. anserina telomerase so that only a fraction of entering DNA is stabilized into linear extrachromosomal molecules . |
| 2 | Eden is always somewhere else , or someone else 's — or else it is snatched away after only a moment , at most , or only distantly seen , felt or known . |
| 3 | If the result is never in any doubt , so that it is not ‘ the people ’ but always and only a section and that the same section of them which confers consent on government , then those who feel themselves permanently excluded will also feel no great obligations to the regime . |
| 4 | This is partly because only a proportion of hinds conceive in a given year and individual stags rarely hold harems throughout the whole breeding season , and partly because few stags breed successfully for more than four years . |
| 5 | Yet in our bones we all know that there is such a thing as national character , even if only a fool or a racist would attempt to define its precise ingredients . |
| 6 | Only , I wish I had ever shown some sign of affection ; I wish I had perhaps written to her — even if only a card ( and even though I was rather far down in the family hierarchy ) . |
| 7 | He became ‘ clan ’ chief after father 's death , yet for most of his life , even when only a boy , he was Mum 's adviser and confidant . |
| 8 | There is , of course , absolutely no doubt that even when only a facsimile of a document is available a professional historian or amateur specialist can gain a great deal from its perusal ; much more so when there is the opportunity to examine the original itself . |
| 9 | It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog . |