Example sentences of "[conj] only [adj] [prep] [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 | It was not settled whether the indemnity be void under s 2(1) or only subject to a reasonableness test under s 4 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Thank you , sir , ’ said Charlie , aware for the first time that only one of the colonel 's eyes actually moved . |
| 5 | Although only fifteen at the time of his father 's death he soon showed himself to be a cunning and unscrupulous politician . |
| 6 | They were in fact over school-age and only involved in the distribution of Ecstasy . |
| 7 | It is 137 cm wide , £16.95 per m and only available in the colourway shown here |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We had allocated three chapters to the teaching of language and only one to the teaching of literature . |
| 10 | Why am I buying two shirts for one son and only one for the other ? |
| 11 | He suggests that this has come about by the make-up of the international selectors , two of them coming from Belfast , two from Dublin and only one from the North-West and Munster . |
| 12 | He suggests that this has come about by the make-up of the international selectors , two of them coming from Belfast , two from Dublin and only one from the North-West and Munster . |
| 13 | Following the Finance Act 1986 this would be a potentially exempt transfer and only subject to a charge to inheritance tax if the husband transferor dies within seven years of the date of the transfer ( Finance Act 1986 , Sched 19 , Pt I , para 1 inserting s3(A) Inheritance Tax Act 1984 ) . |
| 14 | About 1.1 million people have registered with the share information office and only 700,000 with the share shops . |
| 15 | Transport organizations predict that only the three main lines to London will be left and only those with a peak service . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | During the War this difference narrowed , until in 1942 the figures were 86 in the winter and only 108 in the summer . |
| 18 | The vote on the constitution as a whole occurred on 19 November , and only ten of the Council fathers voted against it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He was third , but only 3000 behind the winner and almost put in the Liberal in what should have been one of the safest Conservative seats in the country . |
| 21 | I BRING you today a hand from a recent teams match where the number of tricks made in the same final contract was eleven in one room , but only six in the other . |
| 22 | Southern analysis of genomic DNA indicated that there are two Oct-11 genes in the mouse genome but only one in the rat ( data not shown ) . |
| 23 | From the port side depths of seven fathoms were sounded , but only twelve from the starboard side . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh about a hundred and fifteen thousand , but only thirty on the clock . |
| 25 | In this case the surveyor should be careful to check for ’ dead men ’ , e.g. 23 men claimed for , but only 22 on the site , the payment for the ’ dead man ’ being divided between the subcontractor and the site management . |
| 26 | This is possible because only half of the tape 's width travels past the heads on each run . |
| 27 | The accepted explanation was that the capitalist system of production was based on selfishness since only some in the community could prosper , as their prosperity had to be at the expense of others . |
| 28 | Then indeed man was , as Hardy depicted him , the mere plaything of fate ; life was a black comedy ; perhaps Oscar Wilde was right to regard the aspirations of Little Nell as only good for a laugh . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |