Example sentences of "only [vb infin] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will only make a powerful enemy . |
| 2 | Non-executive directors can only make a limited contribution to a company given that they have little knowledge of its day-to-day working . ’ |
| 3 | If a bird pecks at these it will probably only make a small tear in the edge of the wing and the butterfly may then escape . |
| 4 | ‘ It has already been said that the Duchess of York will only make a fleeting visit with princesses Beatrice and Eugenie so it looks like that the two royal outlaws will now just be bringing the children to tea . ’ |
| 5 | She could only make a calculated guess ; sheer horror at coming face to face with a former lover when the present one stood stiffly beside him . |
| 6 | I feel it can only damage a wonderful friendship . ’ |
| 7 | The old cooking cause he 'll only eat a cooked dinner |
| 8 | Even Signor Grignaffini with his big stomach could only eat a certain amount at one time . |
| 9 | She could only stay a short time , but long enough to hear John thank her for the gift of her daughter . |
| 10 | Scanning programs , such as Norton Disk Doctor , are incapable of diagnosing this precise disk fault , and can only describe a general fault . |
| 11 | Labour lost , and can only win a general election , in the community . |
| 12 | There will be gardeners with established rose gardens who can only introduce a new plant at the expense of something else — a replacement of a loss perhaps , a substitution for something better , an extension or changed layout . |
| 13 | I see from today 's papers that DOL will only need a small operation to remove a blood clout on his achellies . |
| 14 | We can only consider a small fraction of this work here ; little consideration is given to occupational environments , for instance . |
| 15 | We shall only consider a small number of the world 's religions . |
| 16 | When a monomer polymerizes it will only yield a useful polymer if it does so in the form of a long chain . |
| 17 | The ferry can only carry a limited number of cars per hours . |
| 18 | They are small and can only carry a small amount of human DNA ( which substitutes for some of the viral genome , providing additional safety as well as more space ) , and only infect dividing cells . |
| 19 | But now Laura could only feel a deep well of sympathy and compassion for the older woman . |
| 20 | Forgetting all her questions , Molly could only feel a secret satisfaction . |
| 21 | NERC is in a situation in which it can not please every department , and it can only achieve a limited degree of acceptability by adopting the negative posture of being seen not to be unfair to particular departments ( hence spreading small numbers of grants as widely as possible ) . |
| 22 | Trade unionists knew that they could only achieve a limited level of their ambitions through industrial means and they realized that they needed working class MPs to support them in parliament . |
| 23 | The letters alone , however , could only achieve a limited amount . |
| 24 | ‘ You can only evaluate a neural network empirically ; you can not guarantee up front that the neural network will work correctly , ’ warned Professor John Stonham of Brunel University . |
| 25 | A solution involving the secession of Eritrea , he said , " would not only bring a great deal of difficulty to Ethiopia , but also to a large number of other countries in similar positions " . |
| 26 | In addition , we can only bring a small area of the view into sharp focus , whereas the compound eye sees equally clearly over its whole field of vision . |
| 27 | This table can only give a general feel of the capacity of the corpus to cover the transitions likely to arise in unseen text . |
| 28 | I assume you are using a proper aquarium sea salt mix , as other salts , while providing the correct specific gravity ( 1.002 ) , will only give a neutral pH , whereas you need 7.6–8.0 . |
| 29 | This chapter can only give a broad outline of BM and further reading is certainly justified at this stage . |
| 30 | May 1758 brought a brief letter from Miller : he had been preoccupied with business in the country and could only send a small parcel of seeds . |