Example sentences of "with only a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth stood still — wondering , with only a kind of weariness , at what point she 'd determined to return into that burning castle for Adam . |
| 2 | Moreover , by adopting too clinical a scientific strategy , the spiritually enriching value in having an ecologically healthy and varied countryside for people with only a modicum of scientific knowledge , have been overlooked . |
| 3 | With only a minute to half-time Carol Burns made it four , and just into the second-half Rhoda Campbell added another . |
| 4 | Their trick is to have a very loosely connected skin , so free from the underlying tissue that a sudden gripping pressure can break it away , leaving the killer with only a mouthful of the instantly shed skin . |
| 5 | " The people " can not be equated with only a majority of them , nor can " government by the people " be equated with government by the majority , let alone the representatives of the majority . |
| 6 | With only a degree of oversimplification , his general conclusion can be summarised as saying that whatever is happening in the built environment will eventually be resolved to the benefit of the undifferentiated interests of capital in general , even if that resolution generates further problems that have to be resolved in turn . |
| 7 | Then she sat at the big table with only a pot of tea for herself while Frankie and his father cleared their plates in silence . |
| 8 | You receive this splendid , full colour magazine four times a year , with only a proportion of the postage costs coming from your subscription . |
| 9 | He was mad with anger and jealousy , so he locked her in the tower , with only a spinning-wheel for company . |
| 10 | Only then , as they swung in a half-circle with a hiss of blades between them , changing places on the slope like a pair of dancers with only a foot of air separating their faces , did Isambard know his mason again . |
| 11 | The Greece that got away from the Turks was a country of peasants , local clan chieftains and Orthodox priests , with only a sliver of a mercantile and professional upper class . |
| 12 | Maud waited patiently for him to finish , with only a sliver of dread , and they came back together to London . |
| 13 | The village was quiet with only a couple of old men sitting on a bench outside the church as we drove through the gates of the big house and along the road through the village , passing the Chateau where the Commando dead had been placed on the front lawn shortly after we had entered the village , and during the bitter fighting of the first ten days . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ We have dominated our last two games and come out with only a couple of points . |
| 15 | ‘ In some cases managers are stuck in the middle of supporters with only a couple of inches of space between them , ’ said chief executive John Camkin . |
| 16 | The fact that the Ceauşescus had countless colour televisions added to the perverse aspect of their superabundance since ordinary Romanians had to put up with only a couple of hours of black-and-white television each day — and that largely devoted to the doings of the residents of the Palaţul Primaverii . |
| 17 | It is a skill I have honed on a host of beautiful staircases and , before tonight 's professional debut , my most singular success has been at a large hotel in Sloane Street where we just chose Miss London.The marble stairs to the entrance hall are just too perfect to ignore , with only a couple of people chatting on the right halfway down.I take the left hand course and soar down and round the gentle curve in nothing short of majestic style , allowing myself the luxury of a smile and a brief wave to the startled pair as I rattle by . |
| 18 | With central heating and fewer smokers these days , the decoration in a home can last 10 years or more with only a couple of adult occupants and you could therefore feel the need for change long before it really needs doing . |
| 19 | Now , with only a couple of things left to read , I have suddenly had enough of the miserable food , of the noise — a sort of veech sound — of men sucking their teeth , of the monotonous landscape barely visible through the smoke-fogged window … |
| 20 | The handsome , blond cavalier of her youth was now bald and red-faced , with only a couple of teeth left in his head . |
| 21 | Michael Banks managed his lines fairly well , with only a couple of mishearings and one awfully long thirty seconds where he totally lost the thread . |
| 22 | To date we 've printed several thousand pages of WP text , DTP and Graphics , all without a hitch , and with only a couple of paper mis-feeds . |
| 23 | Airdrie are anchored at the foot of the Premier Division , but with only a couple of points separating the bottom three clubs , they are not yet adrift , and a good run could yet make them safe . |
| 24 | I can only hazard a guess at what it must have been like to sail in a typical convoy , with bombers and submarines liable to strike at any moment , or to brave the Western Approaches with only a couple of inches of rusting metal between yourself and the enemy . |
| 25 | A good example of this can be seen in the area of educational research : before 1944 in England and Wales , education at a grammar school was predominantly the preserve of middle-class children whose parents had the ability to pay , with only a minority of ‘ free-place ’ pupils attending . |
| 26 | The great bulk of planning applications are processed quickly and without difficulty — 41,000 planning decisions are taken each year of which only around 250 involve an inquiry , with only a minority of these attracting adverse public comment . |
| 27 | All this , says Mr Gates , means that three-quarters of his firm 's overall software revenues will eventually be generated by selling upgrades to existing customers , compared with only a quarter at present . |
| 28 | When the industry was nationalised , three-quarters of domestic consumers had fires , compared with only a quarter before the War . |
| 29 | Its two pink legs ended in four toes , all pointing forward with only a suggestion of balancing heel . |
| 30 | This definition is clarified when Sadat turns off the road through an entrance discreet enough to admit the car with only a centimetre on either side . |