Example sentences of "[noun sg] only [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | arabiensis in the Sudan , show resistance to malathion only in the adult stage and it seems evident that such resistance was not in fact selected by agricultural usage . |
| 2 | Because advertising is not the only element in the overall marketing mix ( see page 5 ) , advertising 's role is almost certainly going to be to meet part only of the marketing strategy . |
| 3 | Many of the studies showing a low incidence of electrocardiographic abnormalities included cardiac monitoring only during the endoscopy procedure itself . |
| 4 | Paul had laughingly explained that they had taken one small pull only at the bamboo rod , purely out of courtesy to the Moi chief , but it had gone straight to Joseph 's head . |
| 5 | The original deal was for the same time and same sum , but the difference now is that the new contract covers rugby only for the age bracket between 16 and 18 . |
| 6 | He has 13 goals this season , with two hat-tricks , and is second only in the scoring list to Alan Shearer . |
| 7 | Prefaced by an ‘ urgent remonstrance ’ to the gentlemen of England , warning them that the young Queen Victoria 's announcement of her intention to marry Prince Albert may lead to great numbers of her female subjects taking a similar nuptial initiative owing to Leap Year of 1840 ( traditionally a woman could make a proposal of marriage only in a leap year ) . |
| 8 | It was in fact a large room divided in two , one half being given over to the mistress 's wardrobe and dressing stool , with the pier-glass in the corner , the other providing a small chamber with room only for a cot bed . |
| 9 | Development activity would take place only with the Park Authority 's approval . |
| 10 | In the end there was no war and no division , the counts instead agreed that one of their number should be chosen to be Emperor , and that the Emperor should hold his title only with the majority consent of the counts themselves . |
| 11 | DNA changes by biological evolution only on a time scale of millions of years , but our powers of destruction are increasing on a time scale for the evolution of information , which is now only twenty or thirty years . |
| 12 | First , however , it disposed of the concept of ‘ design technician ’ put forward by the Coldstream-Summerson Report , a concept which had evoked a hostile reception from the art colleges in 1970 , on the grounds that the expression seemed to be in use only in the ceramics industry . |
| 13 | This version was more conical , losing its basic smoothness only at the head section above the louvres , where sat the eye and sensor apparatus fixed on a rotating turret . |
| 14 | The decision whether to treat is dependent upon an exercise of his own professional judgment , subject only to the threshold requirement that , save in exceptional cases usually of emergency , he has the consent of someone who has authority to give that consent . ’ |
| 15 | The decision whether to treat is dependent upon an exercise of his own professional judgment , subject only to the threshold requirement that , save in exceptional cases usually of emergency , he has the consent of someone who has authority to give that consent . |
| 16 | Something of all that had rubbed off on Zeinab , although Zeinab was Nuri 's daughter only by a slave girl , a well-known courtesan , who had had mind enough of her own to refuse to join Nuri 's harem . |
| 17 | The question of introducing nitrate protection zones got serious consideration only through the Nitrate Coordination Group in 1987 . |
| 18 | By the end of the decade the majors had secure ownership rights to crude oil only within the OECD area . |
| 19 | Providing an answer only for the surface doubt answers neither doubt in the long run . |
| 20 | England 's double Grand Slam rugby team brilliantly repelled any thoughts of it being the year of the underdog , a thought that found encouragement only in the opening half of their first match against Scotland . |
| 21 | It is possible to do this sort of analysis only within the arthropod phylum , because only that has enough species , with enough measurable features . |
| 22 | For free sheets , of course , the direct cost to the reader was nil ; and for ITV programmes , the viewer paid directly for the cost only of a TV set and electricity . |
| 23 | Microwave to cook 2 trout : heat butter only in a micro-proof dish on High for 1 min . |