Example sentences of "only [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 but I do n't think it 's really worth worrying too much about whether he 's fascist or communist because erm the only reason really there 's only link between him and Russia and the play is A is the opposite of America , in other words George and B because his name Khrushchev which links it to the leader of the er
2 Jolleys reported 41% ( 343 ) of women of all ages having inappropriate leakage of urine , but in 232 ( 70% ) of these it amounted to only dampening of underwear .
3 Only hair of the highest quality is used which is bonded to small sections of your hair .
4 But given the current mood of the Cabinet on public expenditure , only projects with a thumping and tangible economic return seem likely to get through .
5 Instead of an obsession with Germany 's position , should we not be obsessed with what is happening in Croatia , where one in eight of the population has been displaced , we have provided only £77,000 in humanitarian aid and the people are being pounded into the ground ?
6 It 's only money at the end of the day .
7 On a number of occasions we can note that only coins of a relatively high denomination were minted and hence available for use .
8 Only reactions with negative 4G values can take place .
9 Successive NFER analysis demonstrated that the most effective selection process could select only 90% of children adequately — 10% would be misplaced .
10 Or a card which contains only notes from Monk 's book The Sublime : a Study of Critical Theories in Eighteenth-Century England .
11 So , sharp spikes for Harry and arrows for John , and it was only luck in both cases that had saved us .
12 Both are well known to the veteran Franklin D. Murphy , who is not only Chairman of the Trustees of the National Gallery , but a Trustee of LACMA and , until recently , of the Getty Trust ( see The Art Newspaper No. 4 , January 1991 , Vernissage section ) .
13 But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions .
14 left hand right hand Only helices of the same hand entwine together .
15 In 1988 , only 23% of women aged 75 and over were married .
16 The Maori children comprised 43% of those without full data but only 23% of those with full data .
17 In the fasting state , G17 represented only 23% of the total immunoreactive gastrin in molar terms in the presence of H pylori and this fell to less than 10% after eradication of the infection .
18 A similar finding has been reported using simultaneous gamma scintigraphy , oesophageal pH monitoring , and manometry in which only 23% of reflux events were detected by both methods .
19 Of those patients still alive at follow up between four and 12 years later , 89% had a normal haemoglobin concentration , and only 23% of these were still receiving iron treatment .
20 It seems to me that these dreams were not only manifestations of hunger , but that they also evinced a desire to be normal and part of the natural world .
21 It was only conjecture about that bit of uterus .
22 Apart from the side it 's only hardwood at the sides .
23 If , however , the equations are consistent , then the solution ( 2 ) for x uses only n of them ; the remainder are superfluous .
24 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 .
25 Only houses in the D-H bands face increases .
26 A show of their painting tells only part of their story .
27 The sweep is only part of the scoring combination , and an effective punch , strike or kick must immediately follow it .
28 All the corporation has suggested so far is a vague road and landscaping scheme that would affect only part of the pub garden and car park .
29 Yet this is only part of his argument .
30 Much of the capital 's road space is used for only part of the day .
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