Example sentences of "[conj] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some guides are indeed very brief , suggesting visits at breakneck speed where only a few items or rooms will be seen . |
| 2 | But the stage has probably been reached where only a politically unacceptable increase in those rates would stabilise the currency . |
| 3 | Mixed arable and dairy farms and vegetable farms are the easiest to convert to organic : the huge arable farms of East Anglia are more difficult because of intense production systems , as are chicken and pig farms where only a minimum of land is owned and would not be large enough to accommodate free range farming . |
| 4 | Have only low-level foliage in the front of the house , where only a garden gnome could hide . |
| 5 | A place is private and this offence can not be committed where only a minority group of the public are admitted . |
| 6 | The geography of fifteenth-century palaces had been relatively simple : there was a Great Hall , where ceremonious and public appearances were made , and the Chamber where the King withdrew and where only a few could follow him . |
| 7 | Polar desert is the area of bare rocks and soils beyond the tundra , where only a thin , patchy covering of plant life is found . |
| 8 | Thirdly , there is a group of institutions where only a minority of students are on advanced courses . |
| 9 | Every year thousands of people , including many young children , with leukaemia and other bone marrow diseases reach a stage where only a bone marrow transplant can save them . |
| 10 | Where only a proportion of the damage has occurred since we have been on cover , we should pay the cost of the underpinning , subject to the adequacy of the sum insured and the policy excess . |
| 11 | This may particularly apply where only a small number of items are involved , e.g. jewellery/carpets . |
| 12 | These are all roads where the pedagogical tradition has pointed signposts in the wrong direction , making us search for English ( the nature of English conversation , at least ) where it is not — and where only a careful analysis of natural conversational data can get us on the right road again . |
| 13 | " After seven hours we arrived in Ekondo Jundu , a village in a forest clearing , where only a few outsiders had been seen before . |
| 14 | It appeared from the poor showing of the pro-CPSU communists in the elections that a surprisingly large number of Russians had voted for Sajudis-backed candidates , or had boycotted the voting in overwhelmingly Russian-populated constituencies where only a pro-CPSU communist was standing . |
| 15 | ‘ A company where only a few outside interests own the shares . |
| 16 | Across the Atlantic , where only a tiny minority took a serious interest in global politics , there was little obvious response . |
| 17 | where only a cook |
| 18 | Multiple bands were also clearly seen in orangutan ( Pongo pygmaeus ) and the old world monkey Ceropithecus aethiops , but not in more distantly related species , such as pig or cow , where only a single hybridising band is seen . |
| 19 | Sometimes forks would appear on the right and knives on the left ‘ sometimes ( Henry always felt this was Maisie 's way of telling people they were not welcome ) two knives or only a spoon . |
| 20 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 21 | The map of population shows the areas where there has been a loss of people — depopulation — or only a very small , less than average gain . |
| 22 | If the key elements of ‘ owlness ’ were absent , or only a few were present , the birds showed some curiosity about the dummy but were not stimulated to perform the full mobbing response . |
| 23 | Reintroduced foods should be fed in the morning , and again in the afternoon , if there was no reaction , or only a slight reaction , to the first feeding . |
| 24 | Sometimes perpetual debt is issued which carries interest at a relatively high rate for a number of years ( ‘ the primary period' ) , and then bears no further interest , or only a nominal amount . |
| 25 | We must have done because they talked , as we drove , of common friends we had had at that time , but I remembered none of them — or only a name , here and there . |
| 26 | We must be careful with this argument because it is sometimes based on anatomical studies that have used insensitive methods or only a partial consideration of the data . |
| 27 | Whether this perspective represents wisdom or only a curious anachronism today , it commands the scrutiny of a post-war generation in the West brought up to respect the limits of military power more than its utility . |
| 28 | In the " Old Rental " of 1682 certain properties were described as " Proper lands " and were " supposed " to be the benefaction of Sir Edmond ; according to the Goldsmiths ' records they were yielding only 56 13 4d a year between 1671 and 1720 , or only a little more than half as much again as the rent receivable two centuries earlier . |
| 29 | It is necessary by way of preface to emphasise that in no circumstances can in-house benefits give rise to no taxable benefit or only a small taxable benefit if that benefit is to be assessed on an average cost basis . |
| 30 | So if , for instance , you are reading the earliest Gideon books of John Creasey , stop at each fact that you feel inclined to take unto yourself and ask whether it is a reasonably timeless fact , or only a temporary one . |