Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] only [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In June his mother enquired about progress only to be told ‘ Why , he is not even thinking of it … so far we know nothing either about the cast or about the libretto ’ . |
| 2 | In 1988 Margaret Thatcher squeezed sight-test charges through Parliament only after a Tory rebellion that shrank her majority by 28 votes . |
| 3 | However , RAF and Gulf Trust spokesmen said the charity laws under which the trust was established allow for payment only in cases of need , and education trusts do not qualify for this . |
| 4 | Where courses are offered at only one teaching centre , it would be possible to make significant progress by initially devolving responsibility for assessment only to the college , while maintaining for the time being central control of the course content . |
| 5 | Jim remains an enigma , penetrated through action only to a certain point . |
| 6 | They operate a 24 hour call-out scheme and charges range from £55 for cremation only to £85 for clients who want the ashes . |
| 7 | The first body-blow to this belief was dealt by Kinsey , Pomeroy and Martin , who concluded that , far from a high-point of sexual feeling and tension existing only in the earlier adult years and continuing only to around the mid-fifties , sexuality and sexual activity decline after youth only in the most gradual way , with no set or probable point of cessation . |
| 8 | Gastric juice ascorbic acid and total vitamin C concentrations , and the ratio of gastric juice to plasma total vitamin C rose significantly after treatment only in the group in whom H pylori was successfully eradicated . |
| 9 | Artemesia Gentileschi was a painter of extraordinary talent , considered in the 17th Century as second only to Caravaggio . |
| 10 | On the issue of abandoning the guaranteed communist monopoly Gorbachev announced : " The party in a society undergoing renewal can exist and play its role as vanguard only as a democratically recognized force . |
| 11 | I see the force of the point that councillors should be trusted to use the right to sue for libel only in circumstances where it is necessary in the public interest . |
| 12 | But anyone who gathers their information about rape only from the press would be seriously misled . |
| 13 | Under such circumstances characteristics of adult language input would be reflected in differential rates of progress only to the extent that they coincided with the child 's existing ‘ style ’ of learning language ( Gleitman et al . |
| 14 | A second point , raised by Brown and his colleagues ( 1986c ) concerned the decision by Henderson to analyse the role of support only for those women completely free from any psychiatric symptoms . |
| 15 | For the popular protestant version , one which is still shared probably by a majority of clergymen within the protestant denominations of the North , the church re-emerges after centuries of misguidance only with the Reformation . |
| 16 | ( See Chapter 6 under " Interest " ) ( 4 ) Where the defendant is an individual or a company who has been served outside the jurisdiction under Ord 8 , r 2(2) ( 9 ) , or , within the jurisdiction but is " domiciled " in Scotland , Northern Ireland , Belgium , Denmark , France , the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) , Italy , Luxembourg or the Netherlands , judgment may be entered in default of defence only by leave of the " Registrars " . |
| 17 | It is absolutely essential that each parcel should be described with such particularity and precision that there is no room for doubt about the boundaries of each , and for such purposes if a plan is intended to control the description of part only of a building , an Ordnance map on a scale of 1:2500 is worse than useless ( Scarfe v Adams [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 843 ) . |
| 18 | Where the demised property consists of part only of a building the draftsman may either include sanitary facilities in each demise or he may grant each tenant a right to use communal facilities . |
| 19 | The court can not normally order the grant of a new tenancy of part only of the holding ( Fernandez v Walding [ 1968 ] 2 QB 606 ) . |
| 20 | Sometimes the root deed itself will refer to the restrictive covenants and sometimes new restrictive covenants will be imposed in this transaction , for example , if it is a sale of part only of the seller 's property . |
| 21 | If the sale is of part only of the land affected by the notice of deposit , a simple letter of consent to the transaction from the bank or other person protected by the notice , addressed to the Chief Land Registrar , is sufficient ; but some banks have their own form , which they like to use in such cases . |
| 22 | Evidently there is something odd about the expression imperator noster divus Marcus , for noster is generally used of the current emperor , and divus of course only of a deceased one . |
| 23 | ‘ I enjoy it ’ and ‘ It hurts ’ testify of course only to awareness of the immediate stimuli , and will always be outweighed if enlargement of awareness changes the response . |
| 24 | It 's of course only to be expected that people should moan about the tax they 've got to pay and people always complain that it seems to go up every year . |
| 25 | Of course those who regarded the study of mind only as a branch of metaphysics smiled at the ineptitude of the mere man of science . |
| 26 | New product-protecting patents were more effective than all other methods of appropriability only in drugs , while in organic chemicals , plastics , and steel-mill products , they were no less effective than alternate methods of appropriability ( see Levin et al. , |
| 27 | Adams ( 1985b ) illustrates this kind of difficulty in showing how a subject with good vision in the right eye , but perception of light only in the left eye , could easily bump into a half-open door before realising it was there . |
| 28 | Prefaced by an ‘ urgent remonstrance ’ to the gentlemen of England , warning them that the young Queen Victoria 's announcement of her intention to marry Prince Albert may lead to great numbers of her female subjects taking a similar nuptial initiative owing to Leap Year of 1840 ( traditionally a woman could make a proposal of marriage only in a leap year ) . |
| 29 | But these glistening globes , though blown by the panting thousands , lived in that rain of ash only for frustrating fractions of a second . |
| 30 | The Yasa provided for the settlement of disputes and affairs of honour only between the races of the True People , for they alone were equipped with the talons with which the kanly — formal mortal combat — was fought . |