Example sentences of "[conj] only [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women in business today still find themselves in a male-dominated environment where only 20% of managers are women . |
| 2 | Under the original proposal for the flow of financial resources measurement focus , the line was drawn between monetary assets and non-monetary assets , where only changes in monetary assets affected the operating statement . |
| 3 | Most parents though tend to avoid a secret pirates cave where only members of the Pirates Club are allowed . |
| 4 | In southern California , where only 6% of travel to work is by public transport , most users would otherwise have been passengers in cars , not drivers . |
| 5 | Where only part of the works are to be designed by the contractor , the standard form is used with modifications set out in the Contractor 's Designed Portion Supplement to the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract with Quantities , 1980 edition . |
| 6 | This meaning contrasts with that found in sentences such as She ordered me to break down the door , where only part of the movement signified by to is actualized : Here the infinitive can be described as evoking a subsequent potentiality , i.e. an event whose actualization is futurized with respect to that of the main verb . |
| 7 | This was a country where only 3% of the land could be used for agriculture but where farmers received considerable financial assistance from the government to ensure that rural communities continued to be viable . |
| 8 | He chose the city of Selma , Alabama , to dramatize the issue — a city where the blacks outnumbered whites , but where only 3% of blacks were registered voters against 97% of the white inhabitants . |
| 9 | Scientists at the National Institute for Research in Dairying at the University of Reading have found that only part of the nitrogen , phosphorus and potassium in slurry is in a form that plants can immediately take up . |
| 10 | Let us now make the problem a little more complicated by assuming that only part of the disc is in an appreciable magnetic field , as shown in Fig. 4.17(a) . |
| 11 | From the way her companion was looking at her it was easy to see that only part of his mind was concerned with art . |
| 12 | From here you can use the pull down menus to adjust the size , and proportion of your print image so that it will fit wherever you want it on the page , crop the image so that only part of it will be printed , save it as one of a variety of other file formats such as PCX , IMG , TIF and so on , and select the style and print quality . |
| 13 | For we still believe that our femaleness is a biological entity ; but it is this biology that a century ago wished to remove our clitoris and that continues now to impose upon us a desire that only functions in passive reaction to the actions of men , and that is as a result based in narcissism and masochism . |
| 14 | In the same month he told a Nuffield conference that his proposals should ensure that only 6% of the workforce were unemployed . |
| 15 | It is a low rising hill above the waters of a loch and on it centre powers that only eagles of peace and truth can fully feel |
| 16 | I find that only eggs on the outside of the mass are likely to hatch , and have developed a way of maximising the hatching rate . |
| 17 | The Committee acknowledges that as a result of its proposal that only threats of immediate harm should suffice for rape , ‘ some prosecutions will be brought under section 2 in circumstances where there could now be a prosecution for rape . ’ |
| 18 | It suggests that only scientists with " relevant experience " be allowed to take charge of trials , and that a register of qualified scientists be drawn up . |
| 19 | A recent opinion poll revealed that only 5% of those questioned thought the existing parties represented their interests . |
| 20 | Our finding in the present study that only 5% of sporadic adenomas express detectable levels of p53 protein is clearly in line with the results of these other workers , and the use of three different anti-p53 antibodies including ‘ mutant specific ’ Pab 240 , provides further evidence that the protein detected is a mutant form . |
| 21 | Leaders insist that only pockets around the country support escalation , but are aware of increasing frustration that the dispute remains unsettled . |
| 22 | Another opinion poll , published in the magazine Cambio 16 , found that only 8% of those questioned were prepared to die for their country . |
| 23 | A stepper motor is a very special type of motor that only rotates by a fraction of a turn for each pulse of power that is applied . |
| 24 | Officers stood guard at the gates of the cemetery , making sure that only members of the official funeral cortege entered to attend the burial service . |
| 25 | The centre of the turmoil was a string of ten barges so laden with grain that only inches of freeboard remained . |
| 26 | Demanding pay for childcare does not necessarily imply that only women at home would receive it . |
| 27 | R.4 provides that only solicitors with practising certificates and RFLs may be directors of a recognised body , and that at all times at least once of the directors shall be a solicitor . |
| 28 | The day previously a town centre poll had revealed that only 50pc of Darlingtonians could name the town 's distinctly high profile MP . |
| 29 | But the Supreme Court decided that only questions of safety or public exposure to radiation are within the federal government 's domain . |
| 30 | Given the importance of such personal qualities , the government have called for improvements in the selection of students for initial teacher training and have urged that only students with the ‘ requisite personal qualities ’ should be awarded qualified-teacher status at the end of their studies . |