Example sentences of "[vb base] only [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But colour terms frequently qualify only part of the object their head noun denotes ; furthermore , different colour terms may typically apply to different parts , so that , for instance , Mary 's eyes are blue and Mary 's eyes are red are not contraries ( N.B. there is no lexical ambiguity in these sentences ) . |
| 2 | I can see how those faded images might suggest sultry nights of Mediterranean passion even if to me they now evoke only memories of sunburn and Retsina hangovers . |
| 3 | OPCS data record only 35% of deaths from liver disease in Wales as being alcohol related , yet in our district hospital sample 67% proved to be related to alcohol . |
| 4 | ‘ I would challenge Michael Fallon to withdraw his remarks and accept only 25pc of under fives are in nursery education . ’ |
| 5 | Some scholars are uneasy about this interpretation because the sign-groups give only approximations of words and can therefore be made into several different words : the sign-group ‘ po-lo ’ , for example , can be made to mean as many as eight different Greek words . |
| 6 | The figures for percentage sedentary people at the beginning of this chapter tell only part of the story . |
| 7 | However , these rules and formally laid down procedures tell only part of the story . |
| 8 | But the figures tell only part of the story . |
| 9 | They tell only part of the story , and leave out any elements which do not fit into their chosen line of argument . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most difficult problem to be coped with ( apart from grammar and syntax which are quite outside the scope of this book ) is that of semantic shift — the new meanings which Classical words acquired in medieval times , sometimes making them unintelligible to readers who remember only fragments of the language from their schooldays . |
| 11 | I suppose it 's a craft in some ways , and certainly it is quite skilled , but I get bored with it sometimes , an–l only thinking of the use I 'll put those little black torpedoes to keeps me heaving and bending away . |
| 12 | If you use only part of your agreed overdraft , you will pay interest only on the sum you have actually borrowed and not on the full amount agreed . |
| 13 | We observe only outcomes of what we presume is the exercise of power , and are forced into conjecturing what would have occurred if power had not been exercised . |
| 14 | Both groups are able to show a clear effect of gene dosage ; that is , cells from heterozygous mice which contain only copy of the p53 gene are slightly more resistant to radiation-induced apoptosis than are homozygous normal mice with two copies ( which are highly sensitive ) , while the homozygous null mice with no active copies are highly resistant . |
| 15 | The dipole terms contribute only 34% of the surface energy BdS at the central configuration , which is surprisingly small considering the small longitude range of the VGP paths . |
| 16 | An alternative view ( 13 ) is that because these areas contribute only 7% of the gross agricultural output their contribution is of little importance and is sustained at an unacceptable cost to the nation . |
| 17 | Texts a and b , addressed to the general reader , are relatively accessible fragments of language which require only specification of the intended referents to make them readily interpretable . |
| 18 | It must be stressed that these examples refer in some cases to complete pieces of music , in others to themes which form only part of a longer movement . |
| 19 | But feeble personalities explain only part of the Social Democrats ' woes . |
| 20 | Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton . |
| 21 | True enough , we have only fragments of his history ; but it can not be by chance that while the Greek side of his tale is full of internal conflicts , the story of Italy is miraculously free of them . |
| 22 | Those training activities represent only part of the work in which Roy Knott and his team are involved . |
| 23 | As the hon. Gentleman will appreciate , those measures represent only part of our considerable range of initiatives . |
| 24 | When further broken down , the figures for public institutions are somewhat sobering , since educational libraries represent only 9% of publishers ' total sales , and public libraries a mere 5% — and these contributions as a percentage of the total have fallen steadily over the past five years , due to wide-ranging public spending cuts in this period . |
| 25 | In the short term , the prospect of deaccessioning $20 million-worth from the Society 's extensive collections of silver , decorative arts and European paintings has created panic , which the Society 's financial adviser Wilbur Ross has tried to calm , cautioning that the sales in question represent only 2% of the collections . |
| 26 | Another problem comes from the fact that many staff members spend only part of their time on a project . |
| 27 | Those who earn £43 a week or more will lose benefit for the whole of that week — even if they work only part of it and are unemployed for the remaining days . |
| 28 | Those who earn £43 a week or more will lose benefit for the whole of that week — even if they work only part of it and are unemployed for the remaining days . |
| 29 | Those who earn £43 a week or more will lose benefit for the whole of that week — even if they work only part of it and are unemployed for the remaining days . |