Example sentences of "[subord] only a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mixed arable and dairy farms and vegetable farms are the easiest to convert to organic : the huge arable farms of East Anglia are more difficult because of intense production systems , as are chicken and pig farms where only a minimum of land is owned and would not be large enough to accommodate free range farming . |
| 2 | One possibility is for the purchaser to provide that part of the purchase price will be reduced and repaid to the purchaser if certain material consents are not received or if only a proportion of material consents are received . |
| 3 | Appeals from decisions of magistrates ' courts on less serious cases go either , if only a question of law is disputed , to the Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division or , where the appeal is on questions of fact and/or law , to the Crown Court . |
| 4 | After only a minute of play or painting or whatever he should have been doing , he would leave his place , then snatch toys , kick children , overturn furniture and try to run out of the nursery . |
| 5 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 6 | According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’ |
| 7 | for only a change of system would give them their chance . |