Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] a [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 | Where perhaps a defendant has been a passenger and is not accused of reckless driving . |
| 9 | Her end product may be a highly decorative seat where once a junk shop kitchen chair stood , but it is also functional art , and the fact that it is three-dimensional gives it an element of involvement that is often missing from a flat canvas . |
| 10 | A Gothic castle on the edge of the cold waters , on treeless cliffs where boats founder , where villages vanish ghostlily in shifting sands , and a reef where once a year appear the ragged bodies of all ever wrecked thereon — it begets legend . |
| 11 | There is a corner of a frozen field in Scotland … where once a year you 'll find some of the toughest … some of the hardest … some of the wackiest racers in sport … |
| 12 | It has a large garden and a terrace where once a week , instead of dinner , you may enjoy a barbecue . |
| 13 | What I do not need is to be awoken at 4 a.m. in the depths of winter , forced from my bed and summoned to gawp at an empty space where once a football stand stood . |
| 14 | Where once a Chanel handbag or bull terrier would have done , the fashionable woman now holds a smiling child . |
| 15 | The underlying idea is that citizens are expected to keep control over their behaviour , but that in circumstances where even a person of normal self-control might be provoked , the offence may be reduced from murder to manslaughter . |
| 16 | Art prices have now spiralled to the point , it was suggested , where even a collector of Charles Saatchi 's great wealth can no longer afford to buy without selling . |
| 17 | This is the Lyricist Lounge , where twice a month aspiring rappers run new rhymes past each other in something that 's closer to an old school jam than to videogenic 1992 hip hop . |
| 18 | Although predominantly a disease of older men and rare in people under 30 , he said heart disease was by no means unknown in people of Mr Souness 's age . |
| 19 | The bridge in question was a rope bridge strung , Indiana Jones -style , between two cliff ledges , although thankfully a lot nearer the ground than its later film equivalent . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Being a mother has a certain status after all , it makes you a grown-up person , something you ca n't feel , if , like a girl I met in Barnsley , you leave school , which you hated anyway , and did badly at , become unemployed , and there 's no job except perhaps a government scheme . |
| 22 | If you have a power cut , try to switch everything off , except perhaps a light , in case the power comes back on while you are asleep or out . |
| 23 | As to Mr. Cox himself , we obtained very little information that we did not already have , although perhaps a bit more detailed . |
| 24 | Although perhaps a case can be made for self monitoring by patients treated with insulin , there is no evidence to justify this expensive and uncomfortable practice for most people with non-insulin treated diabetes . |
| 25 | My concern Madam Deputy Speaker is whether we 're all being hoodwinked into believing that deregulation bill is opening a new chapter in our legislative history when in fact it 's no more than perhaps a weasel word describing one thing but er er another thing is happening . |
| 26 | Where verbs of perception and know , as we saw above , evoke a characteristic expressive effect in this context , it is more difficult to see any nuance characterizing make here , other than perhaps a suggestion of result . |
| 27 | For example , development must comprise private dwelling houses only , with no trade or business ( other than perhaps a doctor or dentist ) , no caravans or boats to be stored , no dogs , pigs or poultry , no sheds or sheds over a certain height , no loft conversions or extensions . |
| 28 | ISF officials are selecting researchers on the basis of the quality and quantity of their published output ( see Nature 362 , 95 ; 1993 ) , although only a portion of the 35,000 who are eligible are applying for money to keep their laboratories going . |
| 29 | Infection of the fallopian tubes must remain the most important cause of infertility today , although only a minority of cases will be due to gonorrhoea . |
| 30 | However , although only a minority affected by it develop microcephaly and other conditions associated with mental handicap , it is common and attempts have been made to develop a vaccine which would prevent potential damage . |