Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] only a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a restaurant certificate or a restricted hotel licence is being granted or transferred , if it appears to the licensing board that only a mid-day meal or an evening meal is being provided , it can restrict the permitted hours to the mid-day period , if only a mid-day meal is being provided , or to the evening period , if only an evening meal is being provided . |
| 2 | However , when language is used within a specific domain , it is often the case that only a subset of those senses is appropriate . |
| 3 | FISH THE ISLANDS AND BACKWATERS , FISH THOSE INACCESSIBLE SPOTS , ENJOY THAT MOBILITY THAT ONLY A CRUISER AND DINGHIES CAN GIVE YOU . |
| 4 | Tears were a kind of emotional richness that only a man who was really warm and human could afford . |
| 5 | For too long now , she had been starved of one particular need , the kind a respectable woman should not dwell on for too long , a deep-down need that only a man could satisfy . |
| 6 | With a joyousness that only a child could understand ; |
| 7 | They can produce these solutions with the speed , recall and immediate availability that only a computer can provide . |
| 8 | It is appalling to hear a doctor describe , with the detailed anatomical knowledge that only a doctor can have , exactly what happened to his poor body when he was tortured ceaselessly , unendingly , with just short gaps to let him regain consciousness , for weeks on end . |
| 9 | On 22 January 1917 , President Wilson responded to the obduracy of the Allies with a passionate endorsement of the argument that only a peace without victory could lay the foundations for a world without war : |
| 10 | Mrs Hatton , even more expertly , kept it under a piteous control that only a brute would have the brashness to disregard . |
| 11 | The best speech synthesisers are capable of producing speech of such high quality that only an expert can distinguish it from a recording of a human being 's speech ; less sophisticated synthesisers are becoming so cheap that they can now be bought for attaching to ordinary micro-computers . |
| 12 | The Financial Secretary during the course of the relevant Act — Finance Act 1936 , s18 at that time — gave an assurance that only a transferor or his spouse could be made liable under what is now s739 ( HC Deb Vol 313 , cols 676 , 678 and 689 ) an assurance which was repeated by the Attorney General ( HC Deb Vol 313 , col 701 ) . |
| 13 | After a long , lonely , sweat-filled stay in a small cubicle of the Grosvenor House ladies ' room , I wriggled the dress vaguely back into position and called out ‘ Help ’ in a voice that only a bat could hear . |
| 14 | Expert systems can produce solutions with the speed , recall , accuracy and consistency that only a computer can provide . |
| 15 | Jimbo himself had made the one effort that only a patient can make . |
| 16 | For example , some people define ‘ language ’ in such a way that only a system of intentional communication between conspecifics could count as language , and some regard abstract features such as syntactic structure or individuating reference to past events as necessary to ‘ language ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ But Mrs Goreng , ’ the German said with a mild surprise that only a paranoiac could think assumed , ‘ you do n't have to ask , surely ? |
| 18 | However , it should be noted at this stage that only a minority of elderly patients are heated by the geriatric services . |
| 19 | A choice of colour or new hairdo , lipstick that only a fashion model would wear , could work wonders for a woman . |
| 20 | Chico made the kind of face that only a mother could love . |
| 21 | The questions which our proposal can usefully address are : ( i ) Will it lead to any discriminating predictions about observable data which differ from what would be expected under the assumption that postnominals are simply normal attributive adjectives ? ( ii ) How might our claim relate to the characteristics of postnominal attributives discussed in Sections 3.5 to 3.7 ? ( iii ) Can it cast any light in particular on the fact that only a subset of adjectives can occur as postnominal attributives ? |