Example sentences of "a [noun] only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 2 | Mr Delors said : ‘ In a referendum only the result counts . ’ |
| 3 | Unfortunately , such a concentration only a fortnight before the examination — which is too often the accepted state of affairs — is quite useless as a means of understanding and learning the skills of the subject . |
| 4 | The action for private nuisance is therefore designed to protect the use and enjoyment of land , and as a result only the occupier of the land affected or persons having some interest in that land are entitled to sue . |
| 5 | The first was on the local islet of Likangloe , where the once abundant population of wild goats had recently been massively reduced in inverse proportion to that of the snakes which ate them , and where the resident family of fisherfolk had lost a sixteen-year-old daughter to a python only the year before . |
| 6 | I brought the Ford to a halt only a foot or two from the fowl , which in turn ceased its journey , pausing there in the road in front of me . |
| 7 | There were no cries — no spitting of a cat , no squealing of a rabbit only the crackling of twigs and the tearing of the grass in violence . |
| 8 | If less than 3 waiting days have been served in a PIW only the balance of waiting days will remain to be served in a later linked PIW . |
| 9 | One of the sherds ( fig. 14.33c ) appears to be an arm with the skin of the Nemean lion draped over the shoulder and another sherd ( fig. 14.33b ) shows a hand holding a staff or rod being thrust into a creature only the head of which survives on the sherd . |
| 10 | If he had not known she had had a baby only a month before he would have wanted to make love to her , she was . |
| 11 | Or maybe — in a siding only a mile or two from where I lay — a cleaner 's brush was at this moment encountering the bag , wedged back under the seat … |
| 12 | I did have a man only a month ago with an axe injury , a seven-inch depressed fracture of the parietal bone and extensive extradural haemorrhage . |
| 13 | A face only a mother could love . ’ |
| 14 | She stood back and peeled off the shirt with a nonchalance only a trifle marred when a button caught in her hair . |