Example sentences of "[vb infin] only a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that I shall make only a small start before Christmas , so perhaps I can take the opportunity afforded by this Newsletter to wish you all a very happy Christmas and a good New Year . |
| 2 | Observers commented that the modifications would make only a token difference to the King 's real power . |
| 3 | But it will make only a marginal difference to the stagnant housing market . |
| 4 | This is because the profit function before the change must have been horizontal at the optimum , so a small change in the optimum price will make only a marginal difference to the firms ' profits . |
| 5 | The change of context can influence only an excitatory association and thus the result of Fig. 4.6 , a loss of the CR , can be expected . |
| 6 | Organizations can absorb only a small number of people with these work goals . |
| 7 | The defence could always allege only a constructive possession and that there was no actual possession in the absence of a witness stating positive actual possession . |
| 8 | While the United States would yield a constant strategic threat to the Soviet homeland the USSR would yield only a first strike threat to the American fleet . |
| 9 | We should not overlook the possibility of attracting professional musicians into church music , and the teaching profession in particular contains people who might need only a little persuasion to help , at least on an occasional basis . |
| 10 | Yet , although that directive will need only a qualified majority vote , it is unlikely to whisk through the council . |
| 11 | For most chemical reactions the rate of reaction is much slower than the collision frequency so you must assume only a small fraction of collisions result in a reaction . |
| 12 | The relation ’ — larger than — ’ can thus generate only a non-branching hierarchy ; in such a hierarchy we would have to say that B and C above jointly occupied the same position . |
| 13 | Agency laboratories can process only a certain number of samples at any given time and organize the taking of samples to produce a steady and predictable flow . |
| 14 | The rest , certainly many fewer than now , will do only a limited business . |
| 15 | It was an enormous moment , this good-bye to the old home ; so enormous she could hardly grasp it , could feel only a vague regret . |
| 16 | Some of these factors are beyond the control of the individual worker ; others are his own to decide ; and others represent situations where the individual can exert only a minor influence . |
| 17 | By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times . |
| 18 | The first assumption is that each cell can accommodate only a single reach or segment of a stream , and the stream can therefore move through each cell only once . |
| 19 | This chapter can give only a general survey , intended to place the various methods in some perspective . |
| 20 | As there are several excellent histories of the development of town and country planning legislation ( Ashworth 1954 ; Cherry 1974a , 1974b ; Sheail 1981 ) , we shall give only a brief review here . |
| 21 | The house was n't visible from where they stood , in the cool beneath the branches , and even further along , where the path turned , following the contours of the shoreline , they could see only a small part of it , jutting up , white between the intense green of the surrounding trees . |
| 22 | Depending on where they are standing a person looking from either side will see only a partial image or a totally dark and blank screen . |
| 23 | Depending on where they are standing a person looking from either side will see only a partial image or a totally dark and blank screen . |
| 24 | With the torches extinguished , Rostov could see only a vague blur where each of the targets stood . |
| 25 | Every trip to the door was an expedition and it was acutely exasperating to arrive there and see only a little figure in the distance dancing about and grimacing at me . |
| 26 | Her involvement with Adam and Rourke had brought her nothing but trouble and recrimination so far , and when she looked ahead to the future she could see only a bleak landscape stretching out before her . |
| 27 | Kubrick can posit only a mystical promise of future ( individual ) development because he fundamentally has little faith in human nature or society , unlike Clarke ( most sci-fi writers seem to have a deep-down streak of optimism , even when as downbeat as Philip K Dick or as ironic as Kurt Vonnegut ) . |
| 28 | Section 12(3) applies to a contract where it appears from the contract or is to be inferred from the circumstances that the parties intended that the seller should transfer only a limited title ( whether it be the limited title of the seller himself or of some third person from whom the seller would obtain it ) . |
| 29 | In the complex interactions between myself and the countless others with whom I am remotely or directly engaged , my self-awareness and the self-regarding inclinations which it generates may occupy only a small part of my field of awareness , and not for any moral reason ; I feel myself spontaneously pulled towards admiration as well as pride , submission as well as power , masochism as well as sadism , judging myself from other viewpoints as well is judging others from mine . |
| 30 | Use of fixed format input means that many coded questionnaire responses need occupy only a single character field . |