Example sentences of "only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The annual budget for 1990 was £11 million , which represents only a third of the money raised worldwide on Amnesty 's behalf . |
| 2 | Articles in magazines are less certainly described as criticism , for their main topics may be personalities or history , and art may be only a small part of the writers ' account . |
| 3 | His unusual topic gave Fry trouble with the title of his lecture : ‘ The mere fact that we have no word to designate that body of studies which the Germans call Kunstforschung — a body of studies of which the actual history of Art is only a part — is significant . |
| 4 | An unwary reader might think that the book is a history of the changes in Western art , whereas it is in fact only a selection of some changes . |
| 5 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 6 | However , the limitation of the sound guide is equally evident : only a small number of works can be given such exceptional treatment . |
| 7 | For example , landscape painting had only a gradual success as a theme in European painting . |
| 8 | At this level of personal and intimate experience there is little competition from other observers ; only a handful of people in the world will ever see all the works in a catalogue raisonné . |
| 9 | The corollary is that some catalogue information has only a limited life , since it may in its turn be overtaken by new research . |
| 10 | Some guides are indeed very brief , suggesting visits at breakneck speed where only a few items or rooms will be seen . |
| 11 | Interpretation of iconography , the historical context of works , or personal information about sitters for portraits are only a few of the varied topics which can be spelt out in catalogues . |
| 12 | Artists can be at a disadvantage in group exhibitions as only a small part of their activity can be seen . |
| 13 | Cultural history and theory , it has to be said , have very extensive agenda , and art criticism is perhaps only a sub-paragraph under a secondary heading . |
| 14 | A difficulty is that psychology has narrow terms of reference which can give only a few useful results , for example on the question of illusion . |
| 15 | These forms of art , however , can generally be believed to have only a friendly connection with their inspiration , which , indeed , is normally only the starting point for the exercise of the talent of the musician or the poet . |
| 16 | When Jane has Roche inspect the hut , the wild man , with his black face and his pigtails , has gone , leaving behind him ‘ only a vague warm smell of old clothes , dead animals , grease and marijuana ’ . |
| 17 | They are a reality , whereas the guerrillas are only a dream — phantasmagorical . |
| 18 | A little earlier , a view of Eliot 's has been paraphrased : that ‘ there is no ‘ truth ’ to be found ’ in the world , ‘ only a number of styles and interpretations — one laid upon the other in an endless and apparently meaningless process ’ . |
| 19 | Men may wish to use a jacket for one piece and only a sweater for the other . |
| 20 | Sassoon Sassoon was a public school man ( read his book Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man ) and his slightly cold style is only a front for his real feelings . |
| 21 | It was not only a constitution which really was and is effective in the running of the state , but which was itself the product of the hegemonic culture already established . |
| 22 | Always a solution , only a question of finding it , he wrote . |
| 23 | And yet , if I fail , it is only a failure . |
| 24 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 25 | Not only a question about the big glass . |
| 26 | Not only a question about art . |
| 27 | After that only a matter of confidence . |
| 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 . |
| 29 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , my son , who was only a very small boy when you last saw him , happened the other day . |
| 30 | Far from being a conclusion of the ‘ consumer-led ’ revolution beloved of propagandists , the change is the child of a retail revolution which , for the consumer , constitutes only a re-arrangement of his or her individual powerlessness . ’ |