Example sentences of "only [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only through a very effective regional policy could these differences perhaps be reduced to an extent that would be compatible with the existence of a monetary union . |
| 2 | But only for a very short time . ’ |
| 3 | But only for a very short time . ’ |
| 4 | They saw the animal only for a very short time . ’ |
| 5 | She was hit by a wave of familiarity ; the sudden realisation that this was the man with whom she had shared so much , if only for a very short time . |
| 6 | Only when this phase has been completed , and perhaps only for a relatively brief period at the height of a crisis , can a second phase of overt conflict between proletarians and capitalists become manifest ( Przeworski , 1977 ) . |
| 7 | Becker and Engelman combined only for a pleasantly smoochy encore by David Jaeger , composed this year and arranged by Engelman from a piano accompaniment to the viola . |
| 8 | The size and weight of the larger models would suit them only for a fairly hefty boat . |
| 9 | Only during a relatively brief period in the 1950s and 1960s did another form — the high-rise block of flats — become almost as dominant in new local authority construction as the house with the garden , and then generally in the more densely populated urban areas ( Dunleavy , 1981 ) . |
| 10 | Schleiermacher 's own account of Jesus relied heavily on such psychological study ; so , for that matter , did that of Liberal Theology ; and so too did those which saw Jesus only as a particularly heroic and noble representative of the human race , as did the immensely popular Life of Jesus by the Frenchman Ernst Renan ( 1823–92 ) . |
| 11 | They know him only as a highly efficient and exacting captain . |
| 12 | As far as it is possible to ascertain , this particular meaning appears to manifest itself only as a purely human phenomenon |
| 13 | Its chief heterodoxy , ironically enough , was the large theory of Greek cultural development invoked to explain the mystery ; ironically , because the view of Greek culture actually advanced was based — with explicit acknowledgement — on ideas familiar to all classical scholars and accepted by them without demur , but accepted only as a purely historical phenomenon . |
| 14 | In practice there is much overlap and all of the above must be taken only as a very approximate guide . |
| 15 | Norman Davis will be remembered by many with affection not only as a very great scholar but also as a most delightful and faithful friend . |
| 16 | The extended families are split up as the men move first , to be followed only after a fairly long interval by wives and children and often never by other relatives . |
| 17 | And this pays in the results you get only after a very long time . |
| 18 | Only under a more plausible leader would it ever have a chance , particularly during a recession . |
| 19 | The words are revealing ; for this is a black film , not only with a mostly black cast but also with a black director , Mario Van Peebles . |
| 20 | It would be like building the Channel Tunnel in the Scottish Lowlands , only with a particularly unpleasant traffic . |
| 21 | Only with a more macabre edge . |
| 22 | Indeed , I am most likely to have relationships on a day-to-day basis only with a relatively small number of people . |
| 23 | On the next cast I touch-leger again , only with a fairly long loop of line pulled out from between butt-ring and reel ( see pages 15–17 ) . |
| 24 | According to early ethological studies , it seemed that the young of certain birds like ducks and chickens would follow the first moving object they met and form a lasting attachment to it ; also that this attachment could take place only within a sharply limited period early on in development , and that it would affect all subsequent relationships . |
| 25 | The limitations of this study as an approach to consumption in general derive not only from a rather unbalanced subjectivism in the authors ' theoretical models , but also from the particular selection of objects of concern . |
| 26 | In the early nineteenth century ice was used for this purpose only in a most limited way , on a few country estates and in the area around Barking , where it was collected from the marshes most winters . |
| 27 | As in previous exhibitions , artists like Alcide Le Beau , Segonzac and Luc Albert Moreau , whose paintings were related to Cubism only in a most general way , were invited to show , and the title may have been chosen partly to allow for this . |
| 28 | Hinrich Medau evolved a simple method of teaching piano improvisation so that even students who have never played the piano before and have no previous knowledge of music almost all learn to play well for movement , even if only in a very simple way . |
| 29 | It is worth trying , even if only in a very small quantity . |
| 30 | M paratuberculosis has been cultured from Crohn 's disease tissues but only after prolonged incubation and only in a very small minority of cases . |