Example sentences of "only a [adj] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In summing up the workshop all agreed that there exists no coherent government strategy for community economic development in West Belfast , but that an incoherent piecemeal patchwork of programmes and initiatives had been introduced which had only a superficial effect on the area 's social and economic problems . |
| 2 | It was only a narrow mark on the wall , but all around seeped the red death . |
| 3 | The current Seventies retro trend is hopefully only a half-way house on the route towards a radically fresh set of fashion values , in which the tailoring disciplines so dominant over the last ten or 15 years might at last cease to be the basis of contemporary womenswear . |
| 4 | Chancellor Norman Lamont has bowed to pressure and will impose only a small rise on drinkers and smokers . |
| 5 | By 1840 Poles were almost entirely absent from the lists of Danzig merchants , were only a small minority on the list of Danzig house-owners , and were thus almost totally excluded from public life and government of the city . |
| 6 | It proved immensely effective at communicating party campaign themes to the electorate , but in the short span of an election campaign it had only a small influence on the public 's issue-agenda . |
| 7 | The Conservatives , with 42.3 per cent of the vote , won 376 seats ; Labour , with 30.8 per cent , won 229 , only a small improvement on the débâcle of 1983 ; and the Alliance won a mere 22 seats , with 22.6 per cent of the vote . |
| 8 | Reading a rightwing paper never had any significant effect on this aspect of Thatcher 's image and only a small effect on Kinnock 's image in the Pre-Campaign Wave , though its influence grew steadily thereafter : in the first fortnight of the campaign press bias was a little more influential than anything except partisanship and in the second fortnight it was far more influential than anything except partisanship ( Table 8.6 ) . |
| 9 | Jencks , referring to income from all sources including work , concluded that when social class background and measured ability were taken into account , schooling had only a small effect on income . |
| 10 | In the case of Jupiter it has probably had only a small effect on the rate of loss of heat . |
| 11 | Hence we argued that , for people already in work , changes in after-tax rates have only a small effect on hours of work supplied . |
| 12 | From examining the shapes of these graphs it would appear that increasing the size of the corpus would have only a small effect on the percentage of bigram transitions found . |
| 13 | Addition of almitrine enhanced the effect of inhaled NO on arterial oxygen partial pressure with only a small effect on haemodynamics . |
| 14 | Land which in 1947 had little development value , and therefore no claim or only a small claim on the fund , may at some future date acquire considerable development value . |
| 15 | Furthermore , although ‘ the advocate owes important duties to his client , even the wishes and instructions of a client form only a partial restraint on the liberty of counsel ’ . |
| 16 | Pluralists provide only a partial perspective on the inactivity of certain interests and groups . |
| 17 | Ford is budgeting for only a slight improvement on last year 's 1.6m market and has abandoned hopes of sales reaching 1.74m , while Peugeot Talbot is projecting a standstill . |
| 18 | This section should be an attempt to find a position which might be attained , albeit not without some difficulty , and neither only a slight improvement on the existing situation nor hopelessly out of reach . |
| 19 | But the results are so late in arriving that they will have only a limited influence on national policies for coronary prevention . |
| 20 | Deletion of POU S has only a limited effect on binding to this motif . |
| 21 | The relaxation of advertising regulations , initially in 1979–80 , and more fully in 1987 , seems to have had only a limited impact on the profession . |
| 22 | While , for the reasons just explored , raising the standard of care may have only a limited impact on the courts ' willingness to categorise a decision as negligent rather than as a mere ‘ error of judgment ’ , it may still nevertheless lead to the courts playing a greater role as monitors of business efficiency . |
| 23 | Currency movements had only a limited impact on the results for the half year . |
| 24 | Currency movements had only a limited impact on the results . |
| 25 | Currency movements had only a limited impact on the results . |
| 26 | More often Ministers are attracted to what is novel , makes only a limited demand on financial resources , and is not already identified with someone else . |
| 27 | The little terraced houses , with gardens front and back , that Loudon advocates have now doubtless been demolished as substandard , for each floor could measure as little as 12 feet by 12 feet ; but they were not only a great advance on the slum housing in industrial towns ; they provided interiors that could give the domestic virtues at least a chance of growth . |
| 28 | It does suggest that teachers corporately have a responsibility to assist in keeping alive the research tradition , but that there is also only a minimal obligation on individuals to participate in the research enterprise . |
| 29 | If corporations merely promoted or recruited new personnel to replace the faint-hearted or imprisoned , then frightening and removing executives to prison may have only a minimal impact on corporate crime . |
| 30 | Light chemical washes simply task the edge off the harsher colours , reproducing a degree of the tonal mellowness that comes with age , and have only a minimal effect on the integrity of the pile . |