Example sentences of "only a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this time there was only a disappointing click ; not even the percussion cap fired . |
| 2 | Taylor was surprised that Robson forced his way back into the side this season , after having only a disappointing performance against the Irish when he made his previous comeback in March . |
| 3 | Data from the Third World suggests that it may be dubious : mortality is only a good indicator of the overall health of a population when infectious diseases are a major problem ( US National Center for Health Statistics 1973 ) . |
| 4 | Only a good monitoring system would allow judgements to be made about the possibility of moving long-stay patients out of the asylums on a large scale . |
| 5 | The neophytes were still growing , and only a good while after they had received their final implant of all — the carapace — would they be able to jack into an armoured suit . |
| 6 | I see only a good case of thrush , minimum . |
| 7 | As a result , when classes were announced , he had not obtained a first , only a good second . |
| 8 | In the pursuit of both we can aspire to lead our country to find the real wealth which only a good society can provide . |
| 9 | Only a good crop in Kenya has saved Africa from another disaster . |
| 10 | Automation is the key to making not only a good product but the best product . |
| 11 | Automation is the key to making not only a good product but the best product . |
| 12 | While analysts appreciate more information — because they have the ability to separate the price sensitive information from the padding — shareholders may require only a good summary of performance to date . |
| 13 | Conditioning treatments wo n't cure split ends — only a good haircut will do that . |
| 14 | By 1852 the Court was established in the form which it was to retain until 1870 , and from its inception it became clear that this was not only a new Court but a new type of court . |
| 15 | This means that realistically it is only a new board , after a boardroom coup or a take-over , or the liquidator , who will be in a position to act . |
| 16 | If money as abstraction engenders this cynical attitude , so the plethora of products and pleasures creates the blasé attitude in which all objects are perceived as dull and unexciting , and only a new stimulation which rises above the others can produce some , usually temporary , interest ( 1978 : 256–7 ) . |
| 17 | While the norm was in effect a type of seduction poem , in which sexual love is frustrated and unrealized , Shakespeare drops that whole area of human behaviour yet shows that love-poetry is still possible — only a new kind of love . |
| 18 | By 1819 the balance of war had turned against Morillo , first in Venezuela , then in New Granada ; with his armies shrunken to 2,500 men , without pay or supplies , bothered by corrupt local officials , only a new expedition could save the situation in the north . |
| 19 | In the high growth area of optical fibres it produced not only a new coating to protect the delicate fibres themselves but the technology for continuous [ and cheap ] ultra-violet curing during the production process . |
| 20 | Medical negligence is not only a new speciality but the nature of the work , touching as it does the breakdown of the special relationship between patients and doctors as well as the trauma of the injury itself , means that lawyers dealing with the cases must have special experience and skills in handling clients in this field . |
| 21 | From Woolworths , we will hear that the Dixons management have brought their troubles on themselves , that their attempts to cope with the downturn have been lamentable and that only a new team — with a more analytical approach than the pile-it-high philosophy which did Dixons so proud when times were good — can engineer the necessary closure of small high street outlets in favour of a move to larger ones on the edge of town . |
| 22 | In some ways this boom is even more extraordinary , because it represents not only a new taste but a subtly different attitude towards works of art . |
| 23 | As our slogan says , only a new seed can yield a new crop . |
| 24 | Only a broad outline of some of these methods is possible ; the interested reader is referred to Beck and Emery ( 1985 ) for a more complete account . |
| 25 | It gradually became clear that the technological sequence was only a broad outline — the real situation was much more complex . |
| 26 | This report gives only a broad outline of ICI 's environmental performance . |
| 27 | Initially , most contracts are likely to include only a broad specification of the service being purchased . |
| 28 | Although the excavators have warned that these dates are only a broad indication of that of the complex and segmented line which is this phase of the Danevirke as a whole , they nevertheless believe that in a period of danger from Germany Harald rebuilt the central section , and was also responsible for the first phases of the flanking lines to east and west . |
| 29 | Time and again in England and Wales , the company that bought the bus undertaking in the first instance proved to be only a halfway house to resales , mergers and splits , and all the time the very last consideration was for the interests of the travelling public . |
| 30 | Image only A typical database might be a scanned collection of 35 mm slides , perhaps reproducing the contents of a major art gallery . |