Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For them aircraft represent only a small part of their huge engineering and shipbuilding businesses . |
| 2 | The aquarium fish form only a part of Chris ' hobby . |
| 3 | Fish have only a two-chambered heart , consisting of an atrium and a ventricle through which the blood passes on its way to the gills and back to the heart . |
| 4 | The official statistics reveal only a relatively small amount of such violence , yet most women are sufficiently convinced of its prevalence to organize their lives quite carefully in order to protect themselves from being exposed to such violence . |
| 5 | Erm some people put forward a very strong argument for legalizing it . |
| 6 | then erm that 's actually quite a worthwhile , you know some people get quite a lot of satisfaction from doing that . |
| 7 | Do n't be swayed by a large selection of programmes — as every washing machine owner knows , most people use only a few . |
| 8 | If we say , say twenty five percent , right mind you , you know these that most people have about a third to two thirds right |
| 9 | ‘ I still find some of the things she does difficult to understand even after all these years , but I have grasped her conviction that people have only a finite quantity of affection to give and her terror that if Anthony lets anyone new have any she will have that much less for herself . |
| 10 | Many children and even staff have almost a phobia about school toilets and try to avoid using them if at all possible . |
| 11 | I can not say with any degree of certainty that this is happening , but the rolling performance is part of the bream 's basic instincts , and therefore I can not believe that certain members of a species abandon entirely a basic behavioural activity . |
| 12 | In South America , cowbirds of several different species parasitise over a hundred different kinds of small perching birds ; in Africa , weaverbirds , whydah birds and honey-guides all exploit the loyal parental responses of others . |