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 | Fisons is to continue taking peat from the remaining bogs over which it has extraction rights for thirty years , leaving only a two foot layer of peat . |
| 4 | You 're only a two foot imp , cos er unlike me as a man being six foot |
| 5 | The studio is set in the heart of the South Downs surrounded by woods and fields with Lavington Common , once home to the painter Ivon Hitchens , only a two minute walk away . |
| 6 | no , I 'm sure one of you says it was seventy for the coast road , it 's only a two way traffic |
| 7 | Erm but obviously that was only a two metre mix . |
| 8 | We are doubtful that the benefits of the inner distribution onto other roads and into particular the B six one six two which is the only access onto the western relief road as currently proposed between the A fifty nine and sixty one would generate further problems , onto a road which is only a two lane B road compared to an A l A road Sorry and A three lane road , that the environmental damage far outweighs in fact the so called benefits that are being claimed which nobody 's disputed is only a vehicle every four point eight seconds instead of every three point five seconds . |
| 9 | Basically , water passes through a coarse strainer which needs a weekly rinse ; through foam that needs a weekly rinse and changing every four months ; through carbon that has only a two week life ; through two ceramic sponges that need rotating and one discarding every six months ; through the reusable Hex-Nodes and through a final polishing screen . |
| 10 | This simply gives you , it 's only a two page handout , it gives you some idea of the sort of motivations from what people have written about them . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I see only a good case of thrush , minimum . |
| 15 | As a result , when classes were announced , he had not obtained a first , only a good second . |
| 16 | In the pursuit of both we can aspire to lead our country to find the real wealth which only a good society can provide . |
| 17 | Only a good crop in Kenya has saved Africa from another disaster . |
| 18 | Automation is the key to making not only a good product but the best product . |
| 19 | Automation is the key to making not only a good product but the best product . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Conditioning treatments wo n't cure split ends — only a good haircut will do that . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |