Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] only in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tax 's defenders point out that only between a third and a half of church members pay the levy , and then only in proportion to their incomes . |
| 2 | While government has been firm in its insistence upon the importance of personal qualities as a determinant of teaching quality , it has , however , been much less clear about what these particular qualities might be — sense of responsibility , awareness , sensitivity , enthusiasm and ease of communication being the only ones they have specifically identified , and then only in passing . |
| 3 | Then , although neither painter was exhibiting publicly in Paris after 1909 , by 1914 Picasso had held one-man exhibitions in England , Germany , Spain and America , while Braque exhibited abroad more rarely , and then only in group shows . |
| 4 | It took a further eight years before classes got under way , and then only in medicine , and it was not till well into the 1850s that it became really established . |
| 5 | The intention was that the mechanical properties would be thereby improved ; they were , but generally only in proportion to the increase in density , at the same time much of the toughness of wood was lost . |
| 6 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |