Example sentences of "only by a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , despite earlier speculation that it would be supported by ex-Cabinet ministers , Heseltine 's nomination was ultimately signed only by a former junior minister and a backbencher who had never held ministerial office . |
| 2 | ‘ Thanks , ’ Trent said , to delay his death , if only by a few minutes . |
| 3 | The situation does not occur on stillwaters because there is enough water well out from the banks to allow the beats to be separated , if only by a few yards . |
| 4 | The red-brick government-issue buildings stand isolated within a security fence , surrounded even today only by a few houses , fields , orchards and small villages housing some of Britain 's finest racehorse stables . |
| 5 | San Vincenzo is a lovely resort of clear soft sands interrupted only by a few emerging reefs . |
| 6 | ( There is another argument , nowadays timidly advanced only by a few academics of the old hair-shirt tendency , that the white man has fixed the game , making it almost impossible for the others to get in . ) |
| 7 | His face was flat and wide , clean , the skin marked only by a few freckles on the right cheek , the eyes set far apart and shallow in their sockets . |
| 8 | For several hours they appeared to make little progress ; they were traversing a barren region of fine sand and yellowish clay , broken only by a few stunted , prickly bushes . |