Example sentences of "only [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The omission of a material fact only involves an offence where that fact was concealed with dishonest intention . |
| 2 | The use of the word ‘ gender ’ not only denotes an emphasis on the social ( as opposed to biological ) attributes of women and men , but also indicates a recognition of the relationship between masculinity and femininity . |
| 3 | Once bitten twice shy , and a man only tackles a hell-cat once in his life . ’ |
| 4 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 5 | But , as Heydon says , judges attach little significance to the point and it really only plays a part if , as in Dickson 's case , one side refuses to adduce any evidence of reasonableness at all . |
| 6 | However , this only represents a proportion of the total wintering population , as other localities are known to attract substantial flocks ; for example , up to 250 have been recorded recently at Warnham Mill Pond and the Adur Levels , up to 300 at Pevensey Levels , up to 450 at Swanbourne Lake , and 500 in Lewes Brooks . |
| 7 | However , this is not unusual for this industry due to the long lead times involved and in fact only represents a recovery to 1988 levels . |
| 8 | It not only imposes a duty to pay , but also sets up ( not necessarily in the same statute ) the machinery for collecting and distributing the money . |
| 9 | She only wants a home . ’ |
| 10 | Collins only wants a wife because he feels that in the eyes of society it is about time for him to be married and to have settled down in life . |
| 11 | Because you can tape like music , beginning music and then he can tape it , he only wants a couple of minutes beginning . |
| 12 | Upvc does n't rot , split or warp , it ca n't be attacked by insects , it does n't need painting , and only needs a wash down with detergent , and a rinse . |
| 13 | ‘ The weir will last a lifetime , ’ Nigel said , ‘ and the millpond only needs a bit of clearing out . ’ |
| 14 | he only needs a couple to get them |
| 15 | He has said that one only needs a dispensation from the mines inspectorate . |
| 16 | I do n't know , I just do n't know anyway I mean it only needs a yard do n't it ? |
| 17 | Barbel Bohley , a founder of the New Forum reform group , said on West German television that ‘ one has the feeling that it only needs a spark for everything to blow up here ’ . |
| 18 | It only needs a spark from here to land in the stable hay and we 'll lose them all . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It really only causes a problem when only one partner wants to remain childless , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Not only has a trend towards the internalisation of negotiating activity been apparent in Britain but also in those countries such as the United States and Japan where enterprise level bargaining has predominated labour relations issues have long been handled by the managements of individual undertakings themselves . |
| 21 | Hauser not only has a twenty-acre estate at Livingstone Manor . |
| 22 | she only has a biscuit , sometimes she 'll bring scones or cake or , if she 'd been baking |
| 23 | The findings included caesium 134 which , as it only has a half life of two years , indicates that it must have originated in recent tests . |
| 24 | The train only has a guard . |
| 25 | The Christian faith is a view of history ; a process which not only has a beginning in creation but an end signalled by the personal return of Jesus Christ and the establishment of ‘ a new heavens and a new earth ’ . |
| 26 | In a year or two he should have a decent sized flock — of course he 's not normally down here this early , he only has a bit of a stable down here that he rents for the summer along with his few acres of grass and his bit of land for cultivation . |
| 27 | This means that each of these filters only has a capacity of 80% of the size stated , in imperial gallon terms . |
| 28 | The local council says he only has a licence for the fruit , and he needs another one to sell greens . |
| 29 | Prior to that it only has a potential for value . |
| 30 | Indeed she only has a place in the religion in relation to him . |