Example sentences of "only a [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	I should ask only a smile in return … ’
2	Yeah it looks like a satellite dish , it 's only a yard in diameter .
3	Lucier was accustomed to it : the wry grins as they acknowledged he was only a man in costume ; the superstitious snatching away of their hands for fear he was a little bit more .
4	It is false that only a person in authority is an authority .
5	It needed not only a revolution in organisation but in technology too .
6	The farmworker receives only a pittance in pay-off — perhaps £2,000 in redundancy pay — whereas the owner of the land may receive thousands of pounds for several years .
7	The opening of Sonnet 148 again criticizes his own powers of sight and discrimination : It is not only a failure in perception : as we have seen in 152 , the eyes were merely agents or instruments of the will or judgement , from which self-deception flowed , forcing the organs of perception to see what they are told to see ( as in the political conformity enforced in George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four ) .
8	Tai chi has far fewer styles than the hand system of kung fu , only a handful in fact .
9	A licence coupled with an interest , e.g. a profit , is irrevocable , as although the licence itself is only a right in personam , it confers a right in rem to do something once an entry has been made .
10	This is normally only an issue in purchase advisory work .
11	‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can .
12	According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’
13	The guarantee , however , generated only an action in personam , and admitted only judgment in terms of money .
14	An action in rem now lay against the trustee , where earlier law had allowed only an action in personam .

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