Example sentences of "only has [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Appleton House only has 12–14 residents when it was built for 30 originally , ’ he said .
2 Not only has much explanation had to be included , but it is also difficult to make many useful comments after a visit of only a few days .
3 I mean , Essex only has 3,000 students on a good day , and modern university campuses may be foreign turf to you , but they 're happy hunting grounds to people like me .
4 THE MOST remarkable thing about Graham Watkins 's Macbeth is that it only has two women .
5 Lisson only has two women on his books , although he has shown women in the past .
6 It only has two eyes but they are divided for viewing above and below the water surface .
7 The saloon , which only has two doors and is not sold in Germany , will account for just a tiny fraction of the 37,000 cars Volkswagen intends to export to Britain during 1991 .
8 ‘ The thing is … well , this apartment only has two bedrooms … ’
9 She only has other people to her house .
10 ‘ This trio only has long-term chances of survival if it uses all chances to work together to get the best results , ’ he said .
11 Other sources now insist he only has one cap .
12 Besides , she only has one tennis racket to her name .
13 They have no choice at all , and we are in a most dreadful situation and government policy only has one choice and that 's you buy , and if you ca n't afford to buy , and at the moment only thirty five per cent of families in Oxford can afford to buy on the current wage levels and the current house prices , the other sixty five per cent have no choice whatsoever , so you know you 're talking nonsense to say we want consumer choice in housing .
14 The earnings potential of a first degree student with one year of office experience is the same as that of a second degree student who after six years still only has one year of experience to offer .
15 While the pump only has one outlet , separate delivery tubes can be attached by means of tee-pieces , but control valves are necessary to adjust the flow to each individual outlet .
16 This sentence only has one interpretation given a fine-class transcription .
17 The new University is still without a Chencellor and Princess Diana may be a candidate , even though she only has one o level .
18 What brings such ( men ( Aurigny only has one lady pilot — on the Shorts 360 ; all Trislander aircrew are male ) to a job like this ?
19 In a sense the real utilitarian only has one project he takes seriously , the satisfaction of preferences or desires ( whatever they are for ) or , in the older version , the maximisation of happiness .
20 She is especially renowned for creating a long silk jersey halter-neck evening dress , which can be worn five different ways and is easy to make because it only has one seam .
21 She is especially renowned for creating a long silk jersey halter-neck evening dress which can be worn five different ways and is easy to make because it only has one seam .
22 ‘ She only has one feeling — pride .
23 Here is one of the best riders in the province and he only has one ride at our final road race meeting .
24 ‘ Well , not exactly , no ; Lachlan Watt only has one eye ; the other one looks like a real one but it 's glass .
25 Thérèse whispered : Rose Taillé only has one eye but he 's got two .
26 If the flat only has one entrance/exit ( which it will because it is not on the ground floor ) , it should have a fire escape , or some means of escape over a balcony or roof .
27 Not only has that disc problem proved frustrating , but so has the inactivity temporarily imposed by a series of exploratory tests to assess the damage : ‘ Having been injured in the second tour match against Queensland I got back to full fitness , played in the First Test and was looking forward to the second .
28 It only has 3000 genes and by this criterion is about 20 times more complicated than a bacterium and 40 times less complicated than a human .
29 He only has specific proposals for 10% of the total entitlement spending cap , yet the across the board tax rate cuts would lose $25bn a year in revenue for each percentage point reduced , and conservatives are calling for a three point cut .
30 As Mayberry points out , if sign language only has concrete concepts then the signs are iconic and universally understood .
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