Example sentences of "[conj] only [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeremi almost clung to the former undercity dweller , whether out of strange fellow feeling or only for support he could not have said . |
| 2 | Can we kill them with impunity , or only on set occasions in a special manner , or are they sacred and untouchable ? |
| 3 | Day 2 Chairs — The issue is do we record them when the purchase is made or only on delivery which is the next day . |
| 4 | Or only like foam on the sea shore . |
| 5 | Churches often remain , either complete , ruined , or only in part ( e.g. tower or chancel ) , and , together with the extent of the graveyard , they may give useful information about a site . |
| 6 | current storage location of the module version ; that is online LIFESPAN storage , LIFESPAN offline system or only in LIFESPAN hard copy system . |
| 7 | It must be observed that only with difficulty and in a highly tentative manner can one find common ground between the theories discussed here ; in this conversation the participants are talking past one another . |
| 8 | At any rate such verses prevent us from supposing that only with modernism could fruitful contact with Virgil be resumed , or that late-Victorian Virgilianism was the perquisite of Alfred Lord Tennyson . |
| 9 | The Socialist League still took the view that only through work in the Labour Party was there any possibility of building a united labour movement . |
| 10 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 11 | Kali was worshipped by the fearful Thuggee cult , religious extremists who killed in her name , believing that only through destruction as personified by Kali could the creative life-force be revealed . |
| 12 | The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |
| 13 | It smelled aromatically and only of wood . |
| 14 | Because of this factor it is relatively expensive and little seen , and only of use to regular , frequent business users who would find themselves in difficulties without the transportation . |
| 15 | Cheminage might be levied only ‘ in the places where it is accustomed and ought to be taken by ancient usage ’ , and only for wood from the king 's demesne woods . |
| 16 | The text has been cut quite wantonly and only for expediency , you feel . |
| 17 | The mediation theory is founded on the notion of acquired equivalence and only with difficulty can predict an acquired distinctiveness effect . |
| 18 | It has been found that birds are most easily sexually imprinted on their own species , fairly easily on closely related species , and only with difficulty on very different species . |
| 19 | The Order applies only to exemption clauses relating to ‘ consumer deals ’ and only to exemption clauses affected by section 6 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act . |
| 20 | Factory girls usually married in their early twenties ; it was unlikely to happen over the age of 25 , and only in textile areas , where there was a long tradition of employment , did women generally prolong their independence , though conditions varied in different industries and areas . |
| 21 | In particular the conviction that any charge for interest is morally wrong was modified only very gradually , and only in part ; though low rates of interest came to be accepted as a necessity , high rates were still thought wrong . |
| 22 | They were to be allowed to use some of the gentry 's farmland , but not necessarily in perpetuity and only in return for labour services or cash . |
| 23 | All that was important of human knowledge had been handed down — no one knew for certain whence old science had come — and only in interpretation was there ever anything which was novel or innovative . |
| 24 | In light weather , she was handicapped only if driven by her rotors alone , and only in comparison with a fully rigged sailing vessel dead before the wind . |
| 25 | He was a small man , bald and beady-eyed and turkey-necked , and only in retrospect could she see that he 'd probably been something of a mental case as well . |
| 26 | Helmut Mahlke , was hit in the starboard wing by an A.A. burst , and only by luck and much skill was he able to regain Sicily and land safely . |
| 27 | I 'd abandoned the empty house and walked joyfully into the woods and only by chance did I know what had hit me . |
| 28 | Once issued , bonds will , of course , be subject to continual price fluctuations as a result of changing market demand and only by chance will market price be equal to par value . |
| 29 | It was very basic indeed , and only by dint of preparation for the royal visitor did it have any carpeting on the stairs . |
| 30 | Chasing him , she had rapidly lost her bearings in the heavy forest terrain and only by accident had come out again behind the house into the vegetable garden . |