Example sentences of "[verb] only on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the celebrated Mayfair fashion house is operating only on a week-to-week basis to complete orders and little hope exists of securing its future by finding a buyer . |
| 2 | In the US , some observers point out that single-mode fibre has been produced only on a small scale and the technology is not proven . |
| 3 | It has been argued , for example , that laterality should be measured only on a nominal scale ( Colbourn , 1978 ) such that only the direction and not the magnitude of any laterality effect is taken into account . |
| 4 | What would have happened if penicillin had not been discovered , or if years of patient research had failed to explain why sulphonamides acted only on a limited selection of microbes ? |
| 5 | Unemployment rose from 272,000 in July ( 3.1 per cent of the workforce ) to 350,000 at the end of August ( 4.17 per cent of the workforce ) , with an additional 10 per cent of the workforce employed only on a short-time basis . |
| 6 | If the Laboulbeniales is found only on a single species of guest , or only on the host , this may indicate that the commensal relationship is of fairly recent origin . |
| 7 | By the end of the project , evaluation of each new step was beginning to become second nature and exchange was deeper than pleasantries or focusing only on a specific child . |
| 8 | One objection is the loss of potentially important phonological information when phonological elements which vary on more than one dimension ( such as vowel height , in addition to presence or absence of diphthongization ) are analysed as varying only on a single dimension . |
| 9 | Deceit may be practised only on a human mind . |