Example sentences of "only [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Successive NFER analysis demonstrated that the most effective selection process could select only 90% of children adequately — 10% would be misplaced . |
| 2 | In 1988 , only 23% of women aged 75 and over were married . |
| 3 | where the tenant occupies only part of premises , and therefore the landlord is suffering financially by not being able to let the property as a whole ; |
| 4 | Furthermore , body measurements at birth are only proxies for variables more closely related to the processes that underlie programming . |
| 5 | When we started , only 17pc of pubs were selling real ale , now that figure is 64pc . |
| 6 | In 1990 , they made only $3m on revenues of $70m . |
| 7 | On the part of the plaintiff , it has been urged that the cases cited for the defendant were not cases where actions had already been brought , but only cases of promises to forbear commencing proceedings . |
| 8 | The meeting was held only hours after police found and defused an IRA bomb in a telephone box in a street close to Downing Street . |
| 9 | ( b ) Reject those words which obscure rather than clarify meaning-words which are only present for purposes of style , linguistic sense , grammar , or form . |
| 10 | Despite this , only 50% of cancers in this group were actually detected by faecal occult blood testing , the remainder arose as symptomatic cancers in the period between screenings . |
| 11 | Duodenal H pylori was found in only 50% of patients taking NSAIDs with active duodenitis , and 61% of their counterparts not taking NSAIDs ; all cases of duodenal H pylori coexisted with gastric metaplasia . |
| 12 | It is then vital throughout the engagement that the firm only acts on instructions from these persons and that evidence is kept of such instructions . |
| 13 | Only 63% of marriages were between a bachelor and spinster in 1989 , compared with 79% in 1971 . |
| 14 | Wyatt et al calculated that a single anterior biopsy detected only 63% of patients with gastric metaplasia proved by multipoe biopsy . |
| 15 | The TBC was intended to be self-financing , yet in 1960 it obtained only £5,002 from licences and £6,896 from advertising . |
| 16 | Even with such opportunities as the Bill presents to get cases into the Crown court , where the offence involves only damage to vehicles or property — the vast bulk of cases — it is the value of the damage to property , as set out in clause 2 , that is the criterion , not the extent of the nuisance and danger , although that is the real problem with which we need to get to grips . |
| 17 | Ardizzone is not only thinking of picture-books , of course , for his illustrations to The wind in the willows and to A. A. Milne 's Pooh stories make a similar contribution to the story . |
| 18 | Not that it was young Mr Gotobed 's fault , his father was alive then , and in charge of the mine , but Mr Evans says all that family was tarred with the same brush , only thinking of profits . |
| 19 | Although in 1977 we were not entirely destitute , having received a major donation , we were able to open the Centre only thanks to loans from the Guggenheim and the MOMA in New York and the Ludwig Forum in Aachen . |
| 20 | Despite the name , the Tattershall Park Country Club is n't a pricey place — admission is only £1 for adults and 50p for children . |
| 21 | Mr Byers wants to know : Why did VSEL pay only £1 for Lairds ? |
| 22 | Scientific illustration meant not only pictures of animals , plants and rocks , but also of bridges , gas-works and railways . |
| 23 | Therefore , in assessing product stability , only data on samples stored in inert , highly protective packs , need , or should be , taken into account . |
| 24 | In the previous year only 53% of buyouts came from corporate restructuring . |
| 25 | Admittedly , only 25% of adults survive the most common form of adult leukaemia , acute myeloid , but it is a great improvement on 30 years ago , when nearly every sufferer died . |
| 26 | Only 25% of Italians , for example , believed that they could influence national and local government , and 47% said they had no such influence . |
| 27 | In a non-randomised study in Ipswich among a group of 209 diabetics discharged to general practitioner care with agreed standards of medical follow up only 25% of patients had had their urine tested or blood glucose value estimated by their general practitioner in the previous two years . |
| 28 | And 32% said that they set up because they saw ‘ an opportunity too good to miss ’ , compared with only 25% of men . |
| 29 | In the United Kingdom , however , only 10% of tumours are early gastric cancers , so potential exists for changing the natural history of the disease if populations suitable for screening can be identified . |
| 30 | Last year , opinion polls found only 10% of Ukrainians wanting their country to be nuclear-armed . |