Example sentences of "only [verb] a [adj] part " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much more important than the Duchy was the royal household , whose financial institutions , the Chamber and the Wardrobe , not only consumed a large part of the Crown 's income but also assisted , from time to time , in national government . |
| 2 | At the cessation of the solo passage , if the instrument continues to play but only has a subordinate part , it is a good plan to place an asterisk at the point where the prominent passage ends . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've only seen a small part of the hospital wing , ’ Fairham observed . |
| 4 | My impression was that I was only getting a small part of his attention , that he was profoundly preoccupied and that the one thing he wanted was to be left alone . ’ |
| 5 | Matrix sampling is also used , such that each student only takes a small part of the total battery of tests . |
| 6 | Also , a reporter can only extract a tiny part from any whole event , and in many cases he extracts what will be eye-catching and provocative . |
| 7 | The problem is that despite all the well-intentioned efforts of those who have devised the various syllabuses , whether for the old CSE/ ‘ O ’ levels or the new GCSE , what can be accurately assessed may only represent a small part of what arts education is all about . |
| 8 | ‘ I only had a tiny part in Coriolanus , ’ he said a few years later , ‘ but it was the most exciting experience I 've ever had in the theatre . ’ |
| 9 | They call these intelligence , even though they only represent a small part of the mind 's capacity . |
| 10 | Social relations with the royal family were sporadic , especially as they only spend a small part of the year on their 20,000-acre estate . |