Example sentences of "[noun] of the [noun] only [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Kiro Gligorov of the Macedonian LC was elected President of the republic only at the second attempt on Jan. 27 after VMRO-DPMNE deputies had failed to back him ( he was sole candidate ) in a first ballot on Jan. 19 , thereby depriving him of the necessary two-thirds majority .
2 When they examined thin sections of their samples under the microscope , stained to pick up particles of iron , they found appreciable concentrations of the metal only in these same bones ( Nature , vol 301 , p 78 ) .
3 Neighbours are on this side of the road only in this street .
4 At most one can find traces of the style only in one or two string fantasias by such Italianate Englishmen as Thomas Lupo ( d. 1628 ) and John ‘ Coprario ’ ( Cooper ) ( C. 1575–1626 ) , hardly even in the instrumental pieces of Morley 's Canzonets to Two Voyces or the textless ‘ Air for three voices ’ ( springing from his canzonet ‘ Lo where with flowery head ’ ) in his Introduction .
5 What is the use of going to open beaches when we must return to segregated residential areas and schools and suffer under the laws that make the best medical treatment the prerogative of the whites only in our country ?
6 The answer is that it must be partial entry , a firm offering to supply part of the market only at a price less than p , .
7 The first dated coin was issued by Valdemar II of Denmark in 1234 , but this is an isolated and untypical example , and dates became a frequent part of the design only from the sixteenth century .
8 The ‘ ideal ’ label refers to the existence of the types only as ideas or mental constructs , not to their desirability .
9 They are blooms of the transcendent only for here they die .
10 The legality of the move was widely questioned by constitutional experts , who claimed that the constitution envisaged the removal of the sovereign only in case of physical or mental inability to rule and not on moral grounds .
11 Where the proper law of the contract is the law of the UK only by choice of the parties , the Act 's restrictions on exclusion clauses do not apply to the contract .
12 Line the bottom of the basin only with paper by cutting out a circle of paper about 5cm ( 2inches ) larger than the base of the bowl .
13 He achieved a double figure percentage of the vote only in Mississippi , and scored a derisory 9 per cent in his home state , compared with the 39 per cent which he had achieved there in the November 1991 gubernatorial contest .
14 The results showed that knowing about the theme of the passage only at recall did not improve performance .
15 It would be a neat trick of fate if he survived the plasma energy weapons of the platforms only to be burned to a crisp because the pod entered the upper atmosphere of Tarvaras at the incorrect angle .
16 5.11.4 any steps taken in direct connection with the preparation and service of a Schedule of dilapidations during or after the expiration of the Term but if after the expiration of the Term only in respect of wants of repair occurring during the Term and where served within three months after the expiration of the Term
17 The condition of the people of Hartfield , Hawksborough and Shoyswell hundreds differed from that of the rest of the region only in so far as the usual string of £1 assessments was balanced in each of them by one of the very few three-figure ones ( see Table 2.17 ) .
18 social choice over a set of alternatives must depend on the orderings of the individuals only over these alternatives and not on ‘ irrelevant alternatives ’ ;
19 The following were some the most important features of these rules : 1 ) The contractual undertaking involved was to perform or to procure performance of combined transport by two or more modes of transport , such as by sea , inland waterway , air , rail , or road ; 2 ) The document of title function was retained by the CTD , but it was predicated upon presentation of the CTD only to the Combined Transport Operator or his representative ; 3 ) The issuer of the CTD for the entire multi-modal carriage had to assume liability for the whole carriage , including delayed delivery , and this assumption of liability was as a principal and not as an agent of the shipper ; and 4 ) Abstraction protected third parties relying in good faith on the text of the CTD , and this protection was couched in terms similar to those of the Hague-Visby rules .
20 An extremist of the Right he is interested in the welfare of the people only in so far as some concession to their welfare is necessary to enable him to gain and retain dictatorial leadership .
21 Our view is that competition between species drives life onward , with one form gaining space in the crowded ecology of the Earth only by forcing out others .
22 Article K allows for those matters to fall within the competence of the treaty only after a double lock — first , the unanimity of Ministers , and secondly , the specific approval of the House .
23 Formulations of definitive tests are always dangerous , but it seems to me that , without claiming to expound an exhaustive guide , the following provides a satisfactory working test for whether , in any given case , a covenant touches and concerns the land : ( 1 ) the covenant benefits only the reversioner for the time being , and if separated from the reversion ceases to be of benefit to the covenantee ; ( 2 ) the covenant affects the nature , quality , mode of user or value of the land of the reversioner ; ( 3 ) the covenant is not expressed to be personal ( that is to say neither being given only to a specific reversioner nor in respect of the obligations only of a specific tenant ) ; ( 4 ) the fact that a covenant is to pay a sum of money will not prevent it from touching and concerning the land so long as the three foregoing conditions are satisfied and the covenant is connected with something to be done on , or to in relation to the land .
24 If the contract is silent on such matters , the freelance programmer may later decide to test his ownership of the program by offering it to others , or worse still , claim that , as owner , he will permit the continued use of the program only on payment of a licence fee .
25 Both the enlarged access facility and the supplementary financing facility are available to members of the IMF only in conjunction with the use of resources in the upper credit tranches ( i.e. they are special arrangements when normal credit lines are insufficient ) and are for countries which are facing serious payments imbalances that are large in relation to their quotas .
26 Hearing of the project only through the " headteachers ' grapevine " , some heads ( understandably enough ) perceived the selection of schools as achieved by " back-door " methods including the collusion and patronage of the inspectorate .
27 ( Bitter experience has taught me to remove the gaffer at the end of the event only by holding the wire down on the floor as you pull the tape up .
28 Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city .
29 Therefore one is warranted in making the inference from the behaviour to the beliefs and intentions of the speaker only by a general assumption of sincerity , or cooperativeness ( see Chapter 3 ) .
30 It is striking that Papinian ( if it is he ) emphasizes the value of the decision only in terms of its effect on the family expectations of father and children as to how mother will behave .
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