Example sentences of "[conj] only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every year thousands of people , including many young children , with leukaemia and other bone marrow diseases reach a stage where only a bone marrow transplant can save them . |
| 2 | Where only a proportion of the damage has occurred since we have been on cover , we should pay the cost of the underpinning , subject to the adequacy of the sum insured and the policy excess . |
| 3 | A place is private and this offence can not be committed where only a minority group of the public are admitted . |
| 4 | Thirdly , there is a group of institutions where only a minority of students are on advanced courses . |
| 5 | where only a cook |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Have only low-level foliage in the front of the house , where only a garden gnome could hide . |
| 8 | The Act is perhaps not so clear where only the claimant with a possessory title is before the court , for example , because the true owner does not appear or can not be found . |
| 9 | ‘ Another person ’ means other than the driver , therefore where only the driver is injured this section is not applicable . |
| 10 | Therefore where only the driver 's motor vehicle is damaged the section does not apply . |
| 11 | Mad , gay Paris , where only the river is Seine , the English used to joke . |
| 12 | It was strange to see the Prince occupying the same segment of sofa where only the year before I had talked to his uncle . |
| 13 | I prefer patterns that do n't produce large areas where only the cotton thread has knitted , so I tend to choose patterns that only have one or two punched holes ( or marked squares on electronic patterns ) counting horizontally . |
| 14 | They were still at that stage of their coital symphony where only the brass section was engaged , as the old metal bed creaked to and fro . |
| 15 | However , in families where only the father had achieved literacy , child mortality is lower than in others where neither parent had done so . |
| 16 | In houses where only the ground floor is centrally heated , the patient may not feel comfortable in the upstairs area , so if this is where he is to be , for other practical reasons , he will need heaters in his room , or the central heating system should be extended . |
| 17 | depending on whether we take the " " mayden " " as a vocative ( i.e. " girl , I love no one more than thee " ) or as the object of the lost verb of line 14 , whereby the -clause becomes a restrictive relative clause ( " I love no maiden more than you … " [ but I might love some just as much or only a bit less ] ) . |
| 18 | We must have done because they talked , as we drove , of common friends we had had at that time , but I remembered none of them — or only a name , here and there . |
| 19 | Sometimes forks would appear on the right and knives on the left ‘ sometimes ( Henry always felt this was Maisie 's way of telling people they were not welcome ) two knives or only a spoon . |
| 20 | Some of them took great satisfaction in provocative statements of their position : there is no such thing as law , they said , or law is only the prediction of what the courts will do or only a matter of what the judge ate for breakfast . |
| 21 | It is non-productive however , to treat only a kitchen , or only a canteen , as pest infestations occur in all parts of buildings . |
| 22 | Even when the lexemes are the same , they may be used very differently in address and reference ( see e.g. Beck , 1972 : 290ff for Tamil usage ) , or only a sub-set of the reference terms may be used in address . |
| 23 | Inch loss from others varied according to their size but those with a 34–36 inch bust measurement either lost nothing at all or only an inch or an inch and a half . |
| 24 | We asked Ruby whether the same was true for Australopithecus tanzaniensis , whether they actually had speech or only the capacity to be taught speech . |
| 25 | That 's the , that 's the key point that and were making , that only you or only the dreamer can interpret their own dreams . |
| 26 | Her view of the driver of the Renault , albeit only a back view , had shown her the thick dark hair of someone obviously quite young . |
| 27 | More than a decade after the introduction of legislation against sex or race discrimination , it remains true that only a minority of senior business executives are women or members of racial minority groups . |
| 28 | Information collected about the relatives of cancer patients showed that only a minority have anything more than superficial contact with the staff caring for the patient , and a number of these relatives would have welcomed an opportunity to share their anxiety , not only about the patient but about their own feelings ( Bond , 1982 ) . |
| 29 | After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital . |
| 30 | Mortality data indicate that only a minority of such deaths occur in ‘ the executive male ’ . |