Example sentences of "[subord] only a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So , although only a minority of people deciding about credit reckon that its cost is of primary importance , insofar as they do consider the cost of credit they are very much more likely to be swayed by the amount of each instalment and the length of the repayment period than by other cost factors . |
| 7 | Although only a minority of parties were favourable to the Left , it was that minority which was most active at Party conferences and in political propaganda in the country . |
| 8 | Relations with Austen Chamberlain were never quite the same and although only a handful of MPs refused to sign the memorial they included personal friends of Law like Amery and Aitken . |
| 9 | Although only a handful of species in this large genus ( the biggest in the family with perhaps 110 species ) were examined , and only a single sample from each , while other nutrients such as minerals and vitamins were not assessed , the results are rather indicative of a pair of chemomorphological dispersal ‘ syndromes ’ within the genus . |
| 10 | One possibility is for the purchaser to provide that part of the purchase price will be reduced and repaid to the purchaser if certain material consents are not received or if only a proportion of material consents are received . |
| 11 | If only a portion of the balance is to be switched into another currency , the service will take two working days , using the exchange rate quoted at the requested time of transfer . |
| 12 | The importance of withdrawal brings us back to the issue of women 's sexual dependency and the fact that some degree of male cooperation was necessary , if only a willingness to be pushed out of the way . |
| 13 | Appeals from decisions of magistrates ' courts on less serious cases go either , if only a question of law is disputed , to the Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division or , where the appeal is on questions of fact and/or law , to the Crown Court . |
| 14 | This is partly because only a proportion of hinds conceive in a given year and individual stags rarely hold harems throughout the whole breeding season , and partly because few stags breed successfully for more than four years . |
| 15 | This is because chemists ' experiments last for years not thousands of millions of years , and because only a handful of chemists , not thousands of millions of chemists , are engaged in doing these experiments . |
| 16 | Since only a part of the purchase price has to be put down now , this represents a likely return on capital of over 20 per cent in the first year . |
| 17 | Since only a part of the purchase price has to be put down now , this represents a likely return on capital of over 20 per cent in the first year . |
| 18 | Since only a handful of Russian organisations can raise letters of credit , most have to pay foreign vendors 100% payment in advance . |
| 19 | On one , never to be forgotten occasion , I went to Stonehenge , had a puncture after only a mile on the way back and then had to walk nine miles home . |
| 20 | After only a minute of play or painting or whatever he should have been doing , he would leave his place , then snatch toys , kick children , overturn furniture and try to run out of the nursery . |
| 21 | In fact they needed little breaking in and after only a couple of long walks they were very comfortable indeed . |
| 22 | Two watch-worthy Frenchmen , Jean-Noel Pariente , 30 , and Lionel Fainfray , 29 , whose Arthur brand of men 's underpants sells 800,000 pairs in France after only a couple of years in existence , are preparing a charge into the UK market . |
| 23 | This is already starting to ‘ gloss up ’ with use , giving both these guitars a friendly , used feel after only a couple of days ' playing . |
| 24 | She certainly is , after only a couple of circuits her confidence is growing . |
| 25 | After only a couple of days , comprising mainly insults and bickering , she had n't felt as if they were strangers . |
| 26 | After only a week of filming his third American film , Kidnapped , in 1937 , he was fired by Darryl F Zanuck after an argument , and Zanuck saw to it that Preminger was virtually blacklisted . |
| 27 | After only a week of this treatment complex molecules were found to have formed in the mixture , including sugars , nucleic acids and amino acids , the building blocks of proteins . |
| 28 | ‘ But then the team suffered a run of injuries and after only a handful of matches I was back on the field . ’ |
| 29 | Though only a mile from the centre of Bath , it has retained a cohesive feeling , clustered deep into the hills between the wooded slopes of Claverton Down and Combe Down . |
| 30 | Classical Eleusis , then , though only a deme of Attica , behaves something like a hellenistic polis , with amour propre but curtailed freedom . |