Example sentences of "[conj] only [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 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 .
2 Thirdly , there is a group of institutions where only a minority of students are on advanced courses .
3 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 .
4 The Act is perhaps not so clear where only the claimant with a possessory title is before the court , for example , because the true owner does not appear or can not be found .
5 Some of them took great satisfaction in provocative statements of their position : there is no such thing as law , they said , or law is only the prediction of what the courts will do or only a matter of what the judge ate for breakfast .
6 Even when the lexemes are the same , they may be used very differently in address and reference ( see e.g. Beck , 1972 : 290ff for Tamil usage ) , or only a sub-set of the reference terms may be used in address .
7 We asked Ruby whether the same was true for Australopithecus tanzaniensis , whether they actually had speech or only the capacity to be taught speech .
8 More than a decade after the introduction of legislation against sex or race discrimination , it remains true that only a minority of senior business executives are women or members of racial minority groups .
9 After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital .
10 Mortality data indicate that only a minority of such deaths occur in ‘ the executive male ’ .
11 However , it should be noted at this stage that only a minority of elderly patients are heated by the geriatric services .
12 Although the finding of a colorectal stricture in ulcerative colitis very appropriately raised concerns of cancer , all studies including our own indicate that only a minority of these strictures are in fact malignant .
13 It is well known that only a minority of alcoholics are afflicted with clinical pancreatitis and the issue of individual susceptibility to alcoholic pancreatitis has recently been reviewed .
14 She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established .
15 On 22 January 1917 , President Wilson responded to the obduracy of the Allies with a passionate endorsement of the argument that only a peace without victory could lay the foundations for a world without war :
16 The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities .
17 For example , some people define ‘ language ’ in such a way that only a system of intentional communication between conspecifics could count as language , and some regard abstract features such as syntactic structure or individuating reference to past events as necessary to ‘ language ’ .
18 It is false that only a person in authority is an authority .
19 Most Right-to-Lifers believe that only a threat to the life of the mother is sufficient justification and that most women seek abortions for essentially ‘ trivial ’ reasons .
20 EVERTON 'S season is in such dire straits that only a magician in the mould of Paul Daniels can rescue them from big trouble now .
21 However , autonomous replication occurs in only 50-70% of the transformants , suggesting a defect in the recognition of the Tetrahymena telomeric template by the putative P. anserina telomerase so that only a fraction of entering DNA is stabilized into linear extrachromosomal molecules .
22 He said that only a couple of other booksellers in the country had been brave enough to ignore the letters .
23 But what makes me angry is that only a couple of these companies have bothered to alter their ads accordingly .
24 Some fella told me that only a couple of weeks ago , but the greatest rip off of them all , have you heard the greatest rip off about Betty and the , and the roof ?
25 Newman and his original associates ( all white and mostly women ) were hard-liners who argued that only a revolution of the working class could resolve the individual psychic crisis .
26 When we question the actual extent of lifetime employment it is not surprising to find that a fluid labour market requires that only a quarter of employees can expect such guarantees .
27 Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money .
28 His team went further in hoping that only a quarter of total investment would remain in private hands .
29 In Somerset a jury declared that only a corner of north-west Somerset ought to remain within Exmoor Forest : another Somerset jury made the startling statement that King John had afforested all England !
30 When the Incas controlled this area , I was told by The Rough Guide to Peru ( my chattier , more colourful back-up to the ‘ bible ’ ) , ‘ they considered the Uros so poor — almost sub-human — that only a section of hollow cane filled with lice was required from them as a monthly tribute . ’
  Next page