Example sentences of "[conj] only [adj] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If ownership of a majority of the shares of the employing company , whether the employer is a holding company or only one of a number of subsidiaries in a group of companies , falls into new hands , the employees of that company come under the control of the new owners of the company , whether they consent to that development or not .
2 His departure also meant that only two of the country 's six state leaders — Wayne Goss in Queensland and Ray Groom in Tasmania — had achieved office as a result of state elections .
3 ‘ Thank you , sir , ’ said Charlie , aware for the first time that only one of the colonel 's eyes actually moved .
4 The presence of resistor R24 ensures that the oscillation falls very quickly to zero , hence the input to IC7 vanishes and only one of the scoring sequence of l.e.d.s remains on .
5 In addition , the pace of wage reduction fell and only one-eighth of the amount was taken off the weekly wage bill between 1930–3 as was taken from the net weekly wage bill for 192 1.47 Also , there was little to suggest that the pattern and the style of industrial relations was greatly altered by the General Strike : the number of workers on strike and the number of days of work lost were already declining well before 1926 and there was a rise of industrial militancy in the late 1920s and early 1930s as unions attempted to resist the further wage cuts being advocated by employers .
6 The vote on the constitution as a whole occurred on 19 November , and only ten of the Council fathers voted against it .
7 Significantly , in the 36 developing countries for which the data were obtained , if only one of the couple was literate , the child 's chances of surviving to age 5 were greatest if it was the mother rather than the father who could read and write .
8 This is possible because only half of the tape 's width travels past the heads on each run .
9 This area is seen as only one of a number of possible future points of development , for plans are being discussed for setting up a linked structure of subject panels from national down to district and location level to give all teachers the opportunity to comment on materials and raise suggestions for new approaches .
10 Under conditions of nonlimiting H 2 concentrations ( a ) , D. desulfuricans reduced Fe(III) and sulphate simultaneously at rates comparable to Fe(III) and sulphate reduction when only one of the electron acceptors was provided .
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