Example sentences of "only a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | I see only a good case of thrush , minimum . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |
| 6 | Only a broad outline of some of these methods is possible ; the interested reader is referred to Beck and Emery ( 1985 ) for a more complete account . |
| 7 | This report gives only a broad outline of ICI 's environmental performance . |
| 8 | Initially , most contracts are likely to include only a broad specification of the service being purchased . |
| 9 | Although the excavators have warned that these dates are only a broad indication of that of the complex and segmented line which is this phase of the Danevirke as a whole , they nevertheless believe that in a period of danger from Germany Harald rebuilt the central section , and was also responsible for the first phases of the flanking lines to east and west . |
| 10 | Although only a recent feature of modern financial systems , options have existed at various times in the past . |
| 11 | World War two was only a recent example of what had been an historical constant . |
| 12 | In contrast to figure 12.1 , the map resulting from this construal revealed not only a higher number of judgments but also a more effective structuring of their relationships . |
| 13 | K. The East Anglian Heights are only a low ridge of chalk hills which dip gently to the east . |
| 14 | If , however , there was only a low chance of treatment being effective , or there was a high risk of death or deterioration any risk of unbearable distress to the patient , or there could be an unwarrantable drain on resources , there was no obligation to proceed . |
| 15 | Sir Adrian Cadbury is not one of those who subscribes to the popular theory that a truly professional manager can take over the helm of any type of business with only a superficial knowledge of the nuts and bolts . |
| 16 | I have given here only a superficial account of the business of signatures but sufficient , I hope , to indicate something of their history , use and worth . |
| 17 | Even in St Petersburg , where the proportion of hereditary proletarians was greatest , only a narrow majority of workers had severed their ties with the countryside . |
| 18 | I mean it was only a narrow bit of earth like that . |
| 19 | But the board provides only a narrow range of sensitivity on the variables under its own control . |
| 20 | The evidence suggests that they are often indifferent to their educational attainment and are interested in only a narrow range of basic skills or in traditional education for the ‘ high-fliers ’ . |
| 21 | Often it is necessary to start activity with some contrived problems that restrict demand on the pupil , ie , only a narrow range of techniques and knowledge is involved , while the presentation level will depend on the group 's ability . |
| 22 | Only a narrow range of speeds was viable . |
| 23 | Each eye has only a narrow field of view , but it can be swivelled independently to scan over a hemisphere . |
| 24 | The words ‘ reasonably satisfied ’ and ‘ substantially fewer ’ are selected deliberately ; for the alternative is so grave that the choice ought not to be made on only a narrow margin of evidence or probability . |
| 25 | Remembering always to carry her gas mask , stumbling home through the blackout with only a narrow beam of light from her torch to help her , and going to services in churches lit only by candles with a blackout curtain over the door . |
| 26 | The two most likely services to trigger a process of decline are the post office , which often acts as a multiple service facility ( Taylor and Emerson , 1981 ) , and the primary school , which is not only a central feature of the community but also a vital ingredient in retaining a young and active population ( Jones , 1980 ) . |
| 27 | Houghton is a management analyst and appears to have only a hazy idea of how librarians organize book selection , and of the sources that they use . |
| 28 | The vast majority of such experiences can easily be interpreted in terms of orthodox science — usually statistics : most people , including myself , have only a hazy understanding of the workings of probability , and so perfectly commonplace coincidences seem to be outrageously improbable , and are therefore viewed as being in some way paranormal . |
| 29 | Having an ‘ eye ’ at each end of its body , this Oscar cichlid gives its predators only a fifty-fifty chance of striking its head . |
| 30 | Its outcome is not really in doubt , not because it is a put-up job but because the CEGB would not go into such an exercise if it had only a 50–50 chance of success . |