Example sentences of "[that] only a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than a decade after the introduction of legislation against sex or race discrimination , it remains true that only a minority of senior business executives are women or members of racial minority groups . |
| 2 | After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital . |
| 3 | Mortality data indicate that only a minority of such deaths occur in ‘ the executive male ’ . |
| 4 | However , it should be noted at this stage that only a minority of elderly patients are heated by the geriatric services . |
| 5 | Although the finding of a colorectal stricture in ulcerative colitis very appropriately raised concerns of cancer , all studies including our own indicate that only a minority of these strictures are in fact malignant . |
| 6 | It is well known that only a minority of alcoholics are afflicted with clinical pancreatitis and the issue of individual susceptibility to alcoholic pancreatitis has recently been reviewed . |
| 7 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 8 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He said that only a couple of other booksellers in the country had been brave enough to ignore the letters . |
| 12 | But what makes me angry is that only a couple of these companies have bothered to alter their ads accordingly . |
| 13 | Some fella told me that only a couple of weeks ago , but the greatest rip off of them all , have you heard the greatest rip off about Betty and the , and the roof ? |
| 14 | Newman and his original associates ( all white and mostly women ) were hard-liners who argued that only a revolution of the working class could resolve the individual psychic crisis . |
| 15 | When we question the actual extent of lifetime employment it is not surprising to find that a fluid labour market requires that only a quarter of employees can expect such guarantees . |
| 16 | Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money . |
| 17 | His team went further in hoping that only a quarter of total investment would remain in private hands . |
| 18 | In Somerset a jury declared that only a corner of north-west Somerset ought to remain within Exmoor Forest : another Somerset jury made the startling statement that King John had afforested all England ! |
| 19 | When the Incas controlled this area , I was told by The Rough Guide to Peru ( my chattier , more colourful back-up to the ‘ bible ’ ) , ‘ they considered the Uros so poor — almost sub-human — that only a section of hollow cane filled with lice was required from them as a monthly tribute . ’ |
| 20 | However , when language is used within a specific domain , it is often the case that only a subset of those senses is appropriate . |
| 21 | One problem , however , is that only a subset of all texts do in fact have what might loosely be called a story structure . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | It was less crowded at the rear of the room and he thought of pausing there , where he could watch la Principessa and still draw a breath of air that was not perfumed half to death , but then he patted the slender cigar in the breast pocket of the dinner-jacket that had been hand-tailored to fit his sinew-hardened body and decided that only a whiff of tobacco would fully cleanse his nostrils of the mix of scents that hung in the over-heated room . |
| 24 | Taken to extremes , a Bonsai pine , cherry or plum can embrace many more elements than a mere dwarfed tree might at first suggest to the Westerner : antiquity , continuity ( the best examples have been cared for by successive generations ) , and symbolic qualities that only a study of Zen can fully bring home . |
| 25 | Labour 's spokesman , Mr George Foulkes , said that only a programme of assistance to Vietnam would improve the lives of the people there and encourage those who have already left to return . |
| 26 | Hong Kong says that only a handful of them should qualify as true refugees fleeing persecution , while the rest are ‘ economic migrants ’ escaping the pitiful poverty of their home country . |
| 27 | Starting with research on small towns in the mid-1930s and moving on to larger cities in the next decade , successive community studies analysed political processes as one aspect of the social life of the locality , and concluded that only a handful of people were influential in setting major decisions ( the Lynds , 1937 ; Warner , 1943 ) . |
| 28 | We were then told that only a handful of high-spending authorities would be capped . |
| 29 | The vicar is now so unpopular that only a handful of people still attend St Mary 's Church . |