Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee on Safety of Medicines ( personal communication ) has received only a single report of visual disorder associated with chlorambucil — namely , corneal opacity — and the manufacturers ( Wellcome ) have only a single report of optic neuritis , occurring on day 1 of chlorambucil treatment and not resolving on withdrawal . |
| 2 | Is the Minister aware that 18 schools in the Cleveland authority area were built before 1914 and that in the current financial year Cleveland has received only a quarter of its capital allocation ? |
| 3 | The village has attracted only a trickle of visitors . |
| 4 | Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms . |
| 5 | The huge world market out there was worth $330 billion between 1989 and 1992 , but the industry has won only a small share of that business . |
| 6 | The Government has said only a full end to violence is acceptable . |
| 7 | She has made only a handful of films in the past 20 years . |
| 8 | The Muslim Brotherhood has made only a marginal impact on Jordanian life since its entry into parliament . |
| 9 | Thanks to the vagaries of international politics , Ethiopia has had only a tiny slice of this aid cake . |
| 10 | If the user has requested only a subset the user will be prompted to enter a start and end module name . |
| 11 | Formerly a private hotel , it has needed only a little work to convert it to its new use . |
| 12 | He has played only a handful of games since breaking down with back trouble in St Lucia while touring his native West Indies with England in 1990 . |
| 13 | It is just too important a match to blood a player , who upto now has played only a handful of internationals . |
| 14 | He has arrived only a short while before , but did not question the order that von Keller gave to Lt Rosen and several men of the 10th Company to remain close to the vehicle and to bring it up to the battalion by road . |
| 15 | Thanks to Peterborough 's Hospital at Home ( HAH ) system , Jessica has spent only a few days in the local district hospital . |
| 16 | This book has discussed only a few of the innovations we shall have to assess in the next five years or so . |
| 17 | Someone who has taken only an option to buy has not ‘ bought or agreed to buy . ’ |
| 18 | The imagination must replace the lost steeples : the NE chapel of St Sepulchre , topped with the chapel of St Pancras , survives in its transeptal position , but the matching SE chapel of St Mary has lost its upper storey : the adjoining chapel of St Augustine to the W , and its upper chapel of St Michael , are now only crags ; the Bishop 's tower at the NW , late and ill-built , has fallen in , though some of its elevation remains ; and the SW tower of St John has left only a matrix on the W wall . |
| 19 | The solar system has travelled round the galaxy almost 20 times since it was formed , and it has described only a tiny arc of its journey during the two million years that people have been on the Earth . |
| 20 | This has changed only a little over the years , but more recently the need for some sort of central policy for the area has increased . |
| 21 | A landscape which has changed only a little since Tennyson 's birth is now , as it was then , quietly , naturally , yet profoundly charged with a sense-awakening atmosphere . |
| 22 | The Office for Fine Arts intends to keep only a few of the better works for itself . |
| 23 | The problem with this ‘ high ’ structuralism is that it tends to offer only an extremely objectivist account of social action , in which the human actor is merely a vehicle for the autonomous working of certain ordering principles . |
| 24 | An individual GP probably gets to see only a few cases of Meningitis in his career . |
| 25 | The individual gets to keep only a constant fraction of each pound of pre-tax income above OA . |
| 26 | Their impact , both direct and indirect , on the level and growth rate of Soviet production is significant , but appears to constitute only a modest source of Soviet economic growth . |
| 27 | Houghton is a management analyst and appears to have only a hazy idea of how librarians organize book selection , and of the sources that they use . |
| 28 | And yet the drama lies in this , wrote Harsnet , that perhaps the Bride really wishes to remain only a bride , at the moment of her bridity , and the bachelors only bachelors , at the moment of their bachelorhood , dangling together like pegs on a line , boys together at eternal stag party , as the bride a virgin forever in her dream of giving herself up to something else , crossing the threshold to another existence . |