Example sentences of "only a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | no , I 'm sure one of you says it was seventy for the coast road , it 's only a two way traffic |
| 2 | Since 1986 's ‘ It 's Only A Long Way Across ’ , his songs have come wrapped in an electric blanket which has been soaked in the bog-holes of Ireland and then dry cleaned in the side alleys of Greenwich Village . |
| 3 | To a post-Renaissance intellectual , the Middle Ages had advanced only a small way beyond the sixth century Goths ; it was the Renaissance which brought greatness to architecture . |
| 4 | It states that there is no one correct way to manage or design an organisation , only a best way for each individual organisation . |
| 5 | Deregulation has also extended to business organisation though , as yet , in only a limited way . |
| 6 | Relationship matters , formerly considered in only a limited way as ‘ discipline ’ , Discussing the relationships of the librarian with the users is one way of discussing the role of the librarian , a way that keeps the reader in the forefront of the issue . |
| 7 | Although the authors do not deny the importance of the social and political environment in which unions operate , as well as the effects of economic forces , these influences are dealt with in only a limited way . |
| 8 | ‘ The international division of labour ’ is only a fancy way of describing what people do when they go to work . |
| 9 | The proposed discount will go only a certain way towards doing what is needful . |
| 10 | Tired legs , sore feet and shortage of time should not deter an inspection of the unusual sight at the rear of the now unoccupied farmhouse here : in the backyard , only a short way from the buildings , is the impressive entrance to Bruntscar Cave which penetrates half a mile under the hillside . |
| 11 | She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time . |
| 12 | It is only a short way from this position to punishment of artists whose views are seen as heretical , a tendency which led in medieval times to burnings at the stake and , more recently , to the horrors of the Maoist ‘ cultural revolution ’ . |
| 13 | Rochers town , we were only a short way and we went to this house , we were only young coppers , and we had this friend call on us and we looked out , he was going back into the car and he looked down the street and he said , my God there 's an awful lot of children around here , they must do nothing but screw all the time |
| 14 | It was not only a neat way to ‘ finish ’ the interior but also gave the dressed corpse the appearance of being in a bed . |
| 15 | It was already almost five o'clock when they were only a little way past Bath . |
| 16 | They stumbled out drowsily , responding with reluctance to his repeated assurance that it was " only a little way " . |
| 17 | It 's only a little way up the track . |
| 18 | She had gone only a little way however , when she stopped to check her map and , to her consternation found that when she turned the ignition on again her car would n't go ! |
| 19 | She would rather talk to Pilade though she knew this was only a sophisticated way of talking to herself . |