Example sentences of "[noun sg] only on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put it another way , both yarns knit on needles selected by the blanks , the cotton thread only on needles selected by the punched holes . |
| 2 | the bank were prepared to pay for the business to be purchase only on condition that the home , that the family home was then sold and the proceeds were given straight to the bank , so with that eighty thousand pounds of equity in the property and the purchase fund for the business was about twenty five thousand pounds . |
| 3 | Other people who get psoriasis only on knees and elbows may need to fend people off . |
| 4 | English was , as it were , placed fully in the hands of the critic rather than the author , and the author would henceforth be admitted to the pantheon only on condition of a complete and " first-hand " revaluation . |
| 5 | The European Commission had approved a draft negotiating mandate only on May 8 , and this was adopted by the EC Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers on June 18 , two days before full negotiations were due to open . |
| 6 | A rather small greyish eagle or very large buzzard , distinguished from all same-sized birds of prey except Osprey ( p. 71 ) by almost completely white underparts , dark only on throat , upper breast and wing-tips , with some dark bars on wings and tail . |
| 7 | The Court 's decision will have a direct effect only on book sales outside the UK : it leaves untouched the operation of the Net Book Agreement in the domestic market . |
| 8 | Knowing ahead of time what the classification of fish must look like is a great help if one is an expert only on birds and mollusca : and Swainson produced analogies which nobody had previously thought of . |
| 9 | Mr Dienstbier said the new Prime Minister , Mr Marian Calfa , did not yet appear to be a ‘ strong and flexible politician ’ , and indicated he would be acceptable in the post only on condition that President Gustav Husak step down , to be replaced by a non-Communist head of state . |
| 10 | He is prepared to drop the tax only on bond transactions between foreigners , and even then only if he can replace the lost revenue by introducing a broadly based value-added tax . |
| 11 | Most academic teaching posts in universities ( but not public sector higher education ) have traditionally been offered on a ‘ tenured ’ basis , so that academic staff can lose their job only on grounds of professional misconduct ( and not on such grounds as redundancy or financial exigency ) . |
| 12 | Other rights were held by the householders of the rest of Devon , who were classed as ‘ strangers ’ or ‘ foreigners ’ and were allowed to depasture beasts on the commons of Devon surrounding the forest , without payment , and on the forest only on payment of certain small fees . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think any of the British girls will , ’ said Stuart , 25 , who completed a politics degree course at Newcastle Polytechnic only on Friday . |
| 14 | The Federal Assembly had accepted a compromise only on March 29 , whereby different versions of the same title were to be used in the Czech Lands and in Slovakia [ see p. 37326 ] . |
| 15 | Breeds by salt or brackish water , wintering in coastal waters ; by fresh water only on passage . |
| 16 | My last weekend with the car I went over to the Island of Luing , leaving the car ( foot ferry only on Sundays ) at Cuan Ferry . |
| 17 | You put appointment only on board . |
| 18 | The introduction of the price ceilings and the compensatory wage and pension rises had apparently been decided by the government only on March 19 , following the intervention of President Ion Iliescu . |
| 19 | Thus the philosophical Greeks and the industrious Chinese will do as instances of non-restriction only on condition that we allow ourselves a strangely overgeneralized view of the Greeks and the Chinese . |
| 20 | In the past Gates had claimed to have heard rumours of the operation only on Oct. 1 , 1986 , less than seven weeks before it became public . |
| 21 | Many surgeons offer patients an operation only on condition that they give up smoking — and often find that the ensuing improvement makes surgery unnecessary . |
| 22 | They granted the second subsidy only on condition that the king himself went abroad to try to bring an end to the war . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Of the many surveys of prevalence of urinary incontinence few report only on people living in their own homes . |
| 25 | Two Living , One Dead was seen by the British public only on television . |
| 26 | Mr Kaifu has no power base of his own and is prime minister only on Mr Takeshita 's say-so . |
| 27 | Even if we rejected integrity and based our political activity only on fairness , justice , and procedural due process , we would find the first two virtues sometimes pulling in opposite directions . |
| 28 | Labouring poets in the eighteenth century are able to escape literary convention only on occasion , though these occasions are of considerable interest . |
| 29 | Lowland forests , more often near lakes , rivers or marshes than Lesser Spotted ; both species in open country only on migration . |
| 30 | The entire Russian centre 13th , 15th and much of 23rd Corps degenerated into a largely bewildered , starving , uncoordinated melee of ill-trained and illiterate peasants , struggling through thick forests , intent only on escape from the encircling fire of a well-fed , highly trained army . |