Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] only a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On abortion , the Committee accepted the medical view that any abortion entailed danger to life and health and recommended only a clarification of the law to allow therapeutic abortion on health grounds . |
| 2 | Second , the greater profitability of restaurants and garages along an upgraded road should not be included , as this is simply a reflection of more journeys undertaken along this route and represents only a transfer of business from other establishments on less popular routes . |
| 3 | There at Bruges negotiations , which had been initiated by the papacy in 1374 , foundered on the issue of sovereignty over Aquitaine and produced only a succession of fitful truces until April 1377 . |
| 4 | Mr Collor 's National Reconstruction Party was created as an election vehicle and has only a handful of members . |
| 5 | In the seventy fifth minute , Swayles repeated his elbow in Aries ' face , and received only a booking this time . |
| 6 | He was caught on the sciatic nerve and suffered only a dead-leg and an abrasion . |
| 7 | It is usually a facultative characteristic and affects only a proportion of the worm population . |
| 8 | What could be more appropriate at Christmas than to remember children who have been deserted by their mothers and know only a hospital as home . |
| 9 | The instrument is self-standing and requires only a mains connection . |
| 10 | The end of the bridge was clearly visible as it grew out of the far bank , and needed only a couple of rafts to make it complete . |
| 11 | I meant the people who gather by the sea and the noise and the colours and the smell of frying , but Syl had gone pale and sworn at me , using a word I had never been called before , and saying only a moron would say she did n't like the sea . |
| 12 | They cost more to start with , but last up to eight times as long , and use only a quarter of the energy . |
| 13 | This view argued that section 7 was meant as an accounting section only and contained only a prohibition against annual accumulation deficits . |
| 14 | Thirdly , regulatory agencies are specialist enforcement authorities , having a finite domain of control , consisting of particular behaviour and involving only a segment of the population at large , defined by the kind of economic activity subject to regulation . |
| 15 | Because he was so isolated physically , and knew only a handful of fellow artists — his friends did include John Minton [ q.v. ] , |
| 16 | Rehearsals were held in the Club 's premises at 136 Bree Street , a former gymnasium acquired and converted only a couple of years before . |
| 17 | According to Grosskurth ( 1984 ) , some innovative schemes along these lines have already been set up by a few progressive British local authorities , but it seems that they are as yet rare , and reach only a minority of the people in need . |
| 18 | After a supper of pea soup — ‘ One pea each , ’ the duty corporal quipped — and bully beef , he was quartered — and learning new words by the minute — in a large gymnasium that temporarily housed four hundred beds , each a mere two feet in width and set only a foot apart . |
| 19 | Running their corporation according to the ancient precepts of the Talmud , they shunned all publicity and trusted only a handful of associates . |
| 20 | Laud , who was Visitor of All Souls College , Oxford , had him made a Fellow there , overruling the objections of the Warden of the College , Gilbert Sheldon , that he was disqualified by being too young and held only a degree from Cambridge . |
| 21 | Electricity again but using only a fraction of the power . |
| 22 | Blanche looked up and searched the sky , seeking some prophecy of success or failure , but found only a sprinkling of stars brave enough to outshine the lemon gleam of the city 's lights . |
| 23 | Queen 's finally began to play in the final quarter , but had only a consolation try from Ireland A out-half Davy Humphreys right on full-time to show for their efforts . |