Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] [noun] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took the corner in a skidding turn , and rocketed into the dark mouth of the alley only a few yards ahead of the second police car , which was racing up from the opposite direction . |
| 2 | For he can see in the X-ray picture of a chest only the shadows of the heart and ribs , with a few spidery blotches between them . |
| 3 | Of the rest of the text only a few small fragments survive . |
| 4 | Then there is a sudden rustling of materials , a hectic ordering of children and an opening of the door only a fraction . |
| 5 | In no time at all we were standing on a huge patch of snow at the summit of a mountain only a few feet short of a Munro . |
| 6 | Just think — the days when Leeds vs Bradford used to be the big game of the season only a few years back ( One of which was my first leeds game ! ! ) |
| 7 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
| 8 | Whatever people say to him in confidence and whatever they may say in twos or threes , if he had been here when the issue was raised on the Floor of the House only a week or so ago he would have realised — indeed he was here so he should have realised this instantly — that the leaders of the groups might come to an — |
| 9 | Too late , from the very top of his eyes , he saw the prone body laying in the gutter begin to move , and the black muzzle of the gun only a matter of inches from his face . |
| 10 | While there was very little dispute about the incompatibility of marriage with a career ( even at the end of the century only a very.few radical feminist theorists , such as Olive Schreiner , were prepared to argue that all adult women should be engaged in regular paid employment ) , the vote proved a much more contentious issue for feminists as well as non-feminists , because it required such a substantial redrawing of the boundaries between male and female spheres . |
| 11 | The importance of the amendment by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act was that it added the words from serious harm from him' to the end of the sentence only a custodial sentence would be adequate to protect the public' . |
| 12 | There were no cries — no spitting of a cat , no squealing of a rabbit only the crackling of twigs and the tearing of the grass in violence . |