Example sentences of "have only a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To achieve this they may have to adopt conservative technology — that is , technology that has only a fraction of the communications power of optical fibres — and to pander to the needs of a mass audience . |
| 2 | The famous " Big Mac " has only a fraction of the vitamin B content it should have . |
| 3 | Mr Collor 's National Reconstruction Party was created as an election vehicle and has only a handful of members . |
| 4 | The town , sprawling along the side of Lake Managua , has only a handful of buildings over one storey and is without any identifiable centre . |
| 5 | This is the route that Data Logic thought IBM was originally treading , a CICS/Open strategy in which the OLTP environment , plus the wealth of CICS applications already available , could be brought to the open systems market which has only a handful of fledgling OLTP technologies to offer , and few software packages . |
| 6 | Having done so , it then regrows its tail , though it is not always as long as the original and internally it is quite different , for instead of bony vertebrae , it has only a tube of cartilage . |
| 7 | Conservative Members have had only a fraction of the time in this debate . |
| 8 | The season began in January in Brazil and prior to that he had had only a couple of rainy test-sessions at Silverstone . |
| 9 | The new information will indicate that the project will succeed or fail but the information itself will have only a probability of being correct . |
| 10 | The new information will indicate that the project will succeed or fail but the information itself will have only a probability of being correct . |
| 11 | The hall should have only a minimum of furniture in it , and nothing too near to the bottom of the stairs which could increase her injuries if she fell . |
| 12 | I detest William S. Rubin , former head of Paintings and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art in New York , who spotted the deception too late , and then unintentionally justified the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ by stating that ‘ the Reina Sofia will find it hard to acquire a collection of twentieth-century masterpieces to match ‘ Guernica ’ ’ , and that its removal reflected a wish to ‘ attract crowds to a museum which would otherwise have only a handful of visitors ’ . |
| 13 | Having only a mattress in the floor is a perfect example of the Woolley 's minimalist style |
| 14 | Nayland in Suffolk was obviously a centre of the clothing trade ; a couple of miles away , Stoke , though equal in size , was completely different , having only a handful of clothiers whose businesses , by local standards were not large . |
| 15 | It 's a weird feeling to have only a layer of ice between you and the sea ; weirder still to drive out across the Baltic in a Volkswagen . |
| 16 | I mean you , you even get interest just , if you 've only a bit in at least ten have n't ya ? |
| 17 | She was moved to offer , ‘ You 've only a basket of a few items , you might as well go in front of me . |
| 18 | The public , however , had only a total of fifteen days to view the exhibition , between the hours of 10.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. , as Thursdays and Fridays were reserved for the judges . |
| 19 | There 's always a bad moment , Howard knows , after the porter 's unlocked your room , switched everything on , drawn the curtains , and gone away again with a huge tip because you had only a folder of fresh banknotes in your pocket , when you sit down helplessly and think , well , here we are , this is it , I 've arrived . |
| 20 | In good English that had only a speck of accent , just a faint edge that you would wonder every time you heard him if it really was some kind of accent . |
| 21 | Even to someone like myself , who has been envied in politics much more often for my physical stamina than for my brains , it was a severe pace , and I had only a fraction of the work and strain of Anthony . |
| 22 | I was frozen , although the weather had only a half-share in that . |
| 23 | Gould had only a couple of weeks to spare here ( he had been delayed a week in Maitland on the lower reaches of the Hunter while he waited to meet up with Stephen Coxen ) , having promised Eliza to forsake his desire to continue collecting , and to return in time for the delivery of their child . |
| 24 | Some parliamentary constituencies had only a handful of electors : known as " rotten boroughs , " they were often in the pocket of an aristocrat or local landowner . |
| 25 | It was fluent educated English and the accent had only a trace of French as well as a trace of English nanny . |
| 26 | Gwili tried to interpret for him the power of Welsh literature and especially the ‘ renaissance ’ of modern Welsh poetry of which he was himself a part , but Edward had only a smattering of Welsh and , judging from rough translations of folksongs and simple lyrics , he was disinclined to carry his studies further . |
| 27 | But we had only a month in Borneo and after just three days — rather than the recommended three weeks — relaxing in Miri , the capital of Sarawak , we were looking forward to getting down to some trekking , the purpose of the trip . |
| 28 | And all this in a conflict fought halfheartedly by many Norfolk farmers who had only an eye for renewed state intervention . |
| 29 | They can distinguish between two sounds which are only 18 inches apart at a distance of 60 feet ; they can separate with ease two sounds that are coming from the same direction , but at different distances ; and they can differentiate two sounds that have only a half-tone of difference between them . |
| 30 | The greater the number of lectures you must attend , the tighter and more automatic must be your techniques , or else you will find after a week or two that you have only a mass of undigested scribbles as the poor product of the many lectures you have attended . |