Example sentences of "[vb infin] only [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questions about the reasonableness of the amount charged would arise only if the concept was part of that contract . |
| 2 | This is all well and good until you go looking for a sound that the Quad will deliver only when the output level is quite a way up — at which point your mixer has long since run out of headroom . |
| 3 | Allegations that the expert has made a mistake will succeed only if the mistake is an error so fundamental that no expert is likely to have made it . |
| 4 | There was other evidence that , with a moderate ( 2 to 3 per cent ) rate of economic growth , the demographic trends would not impose pressures on the public purse until 2020 and a crisis would occur only if the economy failed to grow by 2 per cent or more . |
| 5 | Marx explained the regime of Napoleon III as an arbiter state temporarily gaining autonomy from the balance of class forces , a situation which he insisted could occur only when the transition from capitalism to socialism was already in train . |
| 6 | Shares like Dixons and Kingfisher ( Woolies ) will move only when the housing market picks up . |
| 7 | Transmission will stop only after the XOFF character has been recognised and , since the Z88 has an input buffer , this can only happen after previously received characters have been processed . |
| 8 | The microorganism must invade the body tissues before infection results and , following invasion , infection will develop only if the body defence mechanisms fail to prevent multiplication of the pathogen . |
| 9 | Even Denis Healey knew that he could make the pips squeak only after the mortgage has been paid . |
| 10 | As an acquaintance put it , ‘ Richard would apply only if the university did something it has n't done for 500 hundred years — say it 's sorry . ’ |
| 11 | Care must be taken in cases where a tragic situation is concerned e.g. Claimant suffering from a serious or terminal illness as the exclusion will apply only if the claim arises as a consequence of the illness . |
| 12 | It can apply only where the expression of the legislative intention is genuinely ambiguous or obscure or where a literal or prima facie construction leads to a manifest absurdity and where the difficulty can be resolved by a clear statement directed to the matter in issue . |
| 13 | It is the sort of thing which would happen only if the person was in some unusual condition , such as a fever . |
| 14 | Yet the Dorset TEC said that it could manage only if the scheme was cut in half . |
| 15 | The trucks would leave only after the train had arrived . |
| 16 | Vibrations do not pass only though the ground . |
| 17 | It emerged yesterday that officials of COSLA have already told the Scottish Office that it considers the break-even point on costings would come only if the number of new councils was limited to just over 20 and not at 43 as suggested by Touche Ross . |
| 18 | Until recently , it was assumed that the section would operate only where the pursuer had a specific Conclusion in his Summons seeking provisional damages , but a recent opinion of Lord McCluskey is to the effect that the pursuer can make an application that his case be treated as one seeking provisional damages at any stage during the case . |
| 19 | Although questions of interpretation are traditionally questions of law the court will intervene only if the expert has asked himself the " wrong question " : see 13.6.8 , 13.8 and 13.9 . |
| 20 | In his view , the court could intervene only if the minister ( a ) failed or refused to apply his mind to or to consider the question whether to refer a complaint to the committee or ( b ) misinterpreted the law or proceeded on an erroneous view of the law or ( c ) based his decision on some wholly extraneous consideration or ( d ) failed to have regard to matters which he should have taken into account . |
| 21 | If this were not so a plaintiff could , by seeking mandamus , evade the restrictive rule that an action in tort for an injunction to restrain breach of statutory duty will lie only if the duty is owed to the plaintiff individually because , as we have seen , the applicant for mandamus only needs to have a ‘ sufficient interest ’ in the performance of the duty . |