Example sentences of "only [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potential and confirmed breeders of tropical fish really should see this one if only for the many tips they 'll acquire . |
| 2 | A single national centre is appropriate only for the few services which involve delivery to all addresses in Britain ( e.g. mail order ) , very occasional visits ( e.g. specialized medical advice ) or a particular type of service or activity with a client group that lives close to it and is not represented elsewhere in the country ( e. g. certain elements of central government , the national media and business services ) . |
| 3 | Matters which the partners might wish to settle in advance include their rights to bid for partnership assets ( since the court would probably not grant the necessary authority to one only of the former partners against the objection of the others ) , the transfer of assets to individual partners in specie , the manner in which sales of partnership property should be conducted ( by private treaty or at auction ) , advertisement of the dissolution , and provisions conferring special authority upon individual partners in any respect during the winding-up of the firm . |
| 4 | Where after a full dissolution the winding up of the practice is in the hands of some only of the former partners an allowance may be made to them in recognition of their efforts before the net profits are determined for the purposes of this section or otherwise . |
| 5 | The First Bank of Kazakstan has bought the software element only of the same system . |
| 6 | Passengers clocked up bonus points by flying with a particular airline , but these could be cashed in only with the same airline . |
| 7 | The analyses have also shown much interesting detail : sub-groups have emerged when marble fragments have been found to have extremely similar isotope ratios , which suggests they came not only from the same quarry but from the same part of the quarry . |
| 8 | Only in the former case , where the plasma is in equilibrium , its particles randomly moving around with a distribution of energies , does the concept of ‘ temperature ’ have a true meaning and the possibility of sustained thermo -nuclear fusion exist . |
| 9 | Only in the former case could a violation of autonomy conceivably be justified . |
| 10 | The Convention text emphasises the source of the document , and the capacity in which the person concerned is acting ; a notary may be acting as a public officer or as the agent of a private party , and only in the former case will the Convention apply to documents issued by him . |
| 11 | Only in the latter half of the last century did these ideas begin to emerge and it was recognized that embryos developed by epigenesis . |
| 12 | Only in the latter days of the town 's life as a centre of county magnificence were any real attempts made to establish an overall urban form and both resulted in failure , at least as financial ventures . |
| 13 | Thus the thickest potential net pay can be expected to be developed only in the latter situation ( see Figs. 25 and 26 ) . |
| 14 | However , Harriman and Buxton ( 1979 ) presented semantically anomalous sentences spoken either in a monotone or with appropriate intonation , and obtained a REA only in the latter condition . |
| 15 | They did n't do many subjects together and were only in the same group for French and history . |
| 16 | Of 149 respondents , 18 subjects agreed firmly with the statement that " Dreams occur only in the few moments before you wake up " , and a further 23 thought this was perhaps true . |
| 17 | In the Hull survey one of the statements to which respondents were invited to agree was " Dreams occur only in the few moments before you wake up " ; 18 endorsed this statement , and 23 thought it was maybe true , out of 149 . |
| 18 | In most of these universes the conditions would not be right for the development of complicated organisms ; only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question : " why is the universe the way we see it ? " |
| 19 | From Poolewe , a narrow road follows the coast to the headland west of Loch Ewe but is of interest only to the few residents alongside it , and visitors invariably continue on the A.832 to Gairloch , this road also having been brought up to modern standards . |
| 20 | A person who is mentally handicapped is just as much a member of society as anyone else and , like anyone who possesses a disability or impairment , is entitled not only to the same rights and services as society as a whole , but also to special needs and facilities which Britain , as a relatively affluent nation , should be able to provide for the care of disadvantaged people . |
| 21 | Assuming the Daventry nuns have been subject only to the same controls being applied to all other British egg producers , the protest by the United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association ( Ukepra ) , the only organisation within the UK egg industry not represented among BEIC members , is potentially damaging both to egg consumers and to egg producers . |
| 22 | The basis for this implied authority was , therefore , seen as the in loco parentis principle — the teacher acting in place of the parent and subject only to the same limits imposed by the law on the parent . |
| 23 | it follows from this that ‘ it is characteristic of all unproductive labourers that they are at my command … only to the same extent as I exploit productive labourers … however , my power to employ productive labourers by no means grows in the same proportion as I employ unproductive labourers , but on the contrary diminishes in the same proportion . ’ |
| 24 | EBCDIC and ASCII environments are supported within the same region — and suites of programs and files with different character sets can reside not only on the same hardware and operating system but actually running under the same application , the company claims . |
| 25 | EBCDIC and ASCII environments are supported within the same region — and suites of programs and files with different character sets can reside not only on the same hardware and operating system but actually running under the same application , the company claims . |
| 26 | Then three-quarters of Rokeya 's olive-shaded face appeared bearing the same expression of suffering as it had all the years Lee had known her , relieved only by the same amethyst earrings and necklace of variegated amethyst chunks . |
| 27 | Having entered the soft systems world as an untrained novice some years ago , and endeavoured to apply the theories to problem situations within my normal sphere of activity , aided only by the few textbooks that were then on the market and occasional contact with other exponents of the approach , I am keenly aware of the difficulties that some practitioners may have , not only with understanding the principles but also with putting them into practice . |