Example sentences of "with only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The managers produce a league table of 24 states with the UK third from the bottom with only Greece ( 5.5% ) and Turkey ( 4% ) spending less than Britain 's 6.2% . |
| 2 | Two women were trapped in the cabin , with only inches of air space , as the boat filled with icy water . |
| 3 | The same was true of market produce ; some growers concentrating on just one crop so that ‘ whole tracts , like large arable fields , were sown with only cabbages or asparagus ’ , and he also appreciated the local economy in forcing asparagus through the necks of broken bottles . |
| 4 | Fortunately , we escaped with only bruises . |
| 5 | There were 14 British players — 12 of them English — in the field , yet home interest ended in the second round , with only Peter Marshall showing any prospect of progressing further . |
| 6 | In the Spanish-American war of 1898 , troops arrived in Florida with only winter clothing . |
| 7 | Their victory over Rangers extended their unbeaten run to 11 games and with only Blackburn and Norwich three points ahead of them at the top , their sights are being raised ever higher . |
| 8 | Recently Cohn et al found that 73% of 11 large bowel cancer patients whose tumours had lost the nm23 allele developed metastatic liver disease compared with only 20% of the remainder . |
| 9 | The Community market now accounts for 39% of all Scotch Whisky exports , as compared with only 20% on UK entry ( Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 10 | JOHN PEEL tinkers away into the small hours with only Loudon Wainwright III and Jacob 's Mouse for company . |
| 11 | Alison escaped with only aches and pains from an accident which could easily have claimed her life … now she hopes she can put all the anxiety of the past few months behind her . |
| 12 | And , in describing the consequences of what he defines as literacy , he distinguishes between societies which employ the notion of ‘ logic ’ and those which do not , between societies with ‘ historical sensibility ’ and those with only myth , and between societies where ‘ scepticism ’ is present involving ‘ deliberate rejection and reinterpretation of social dogma and those limited to ‘ semi-automatic readjustment of belief . |
| 13 | However it turned out a dismal championship for them with only Noel Weir of Rathfriland giving the association an interest in the open singles final . |
| 14 | In December 1959 Congress announced the cancellation of the B-70 weapons system , leaving NAA with only permission to proceed with a single XB-70 prototype . |
| 15 | The sense of whizzing through the snow with only hills and trees around her made her jubilant . |
| 16 | For Anne it was not only the ordeal of the air raids but even more the terror that her mother would die on the bed in the cellar , with only Anne of all her family with her . |
| 17 | Close behind was Worcestershire rider Giles Turner , 19 , on the French bred Mavis Davis — who came from Nick Skelton with only £4 on her card . |
| 18 | They have made a strong bid for the 1995 World Cup with only NZ in opposition . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose he 's got flu now and I 'm expected to manage as usual with only half of you here . |
| 20 | Since Munich , the mood of the British people had changed almost tangibly , with only Chamberlain 's grey men in Parliament , backed by their poodles at the Daily Mail and the Express , not positively , atavistically , desiring the first shot . |
| 21 | We had a teddy bear without a head , a teddy bear without , with only feet , and know I 've got a teddy bear with an arm , without |
| 22 | The workload continues to fall sharply with only Scotland showing a rise for the quarter |
| 23 | When she promised not to attend any more meetings without his permission , they were reconciled , but he died the same night , probably of a heart attack , with only Agnes in the house . |
| 24 | True , there are a lot of them — 58m compared with only 3m people . |
| 25 | Not all the Lotus problems had been solved — the car was still very light at the front and had trouble coming out of the corners — but it was certainly thoroughly competitive and Fittipaldi 's confidence was high : especially when he won going away at Jarama in Spain , with only Ickx 's Ferrari providing any real opposition . |
| 26 | From her reclining position , Mrs Keith still took a controlling interest in the household , but with only Jim in the house and two farmhands in the hut , Tina had become used to being in charge . |
| 27 | Ervine , who last week finished runner-up in the Irish championship , took the lead from the start with only Jim Brown of BARF prepared to give chase . |
| 28 | US aid to Sudan stood at $64m in 1981 , rising to $121m in 1984 ; in 1986 total US military and economic aid to Sudan stood at $158m prior to total suspension in late February with only $50m of food aid being disbursed following Sudan 's developing relations with Libya . |
| 29 | • 47% preferred to remain in hospital for 3 days after with only 8% feeling a 6 hour stay was sufficient . |
| 30 | On May 24 after a week of intensive negotiations the Council of ( Agriculture ) Ministers agreed ( with only Italy voting against ) on the agricultural price and support measures for 1991/92 . |