Example sentences of "[vb infin] only [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Government grants will cover only 50pc of that and the county council will need to find the remainder .
2 The term does not cover only threats of violence but anything detrimental or unpleasant according to Lord Wright in the civil case of Thorne v MTA [ 1937 ] AC 797 .
3 All the corporation has suggested so far is a vague road and landscaping scheme that would affect only part of the pub garden and car park .
4 The tests showed that if a product which should be cooked at 180°C is deep-fried at the correct temperature to seal it and is cooked as recommended , it will absorb only 6% of its weight in oil .
5 Germany has decided that 90% of the costs of cleaning sites in the eastern states should be split between state and federal governments ; the new owner should carry only 10% of the costs .
6 But obviously we know that interviewers simply given the task of producing say 20 interviews might choose only women of a fairly young age-group and we know this is not representative of the population .
7 Then the boat went down between the waves and she could see only mountains of wild water everywhere .
8 The head of the voting commission for northern Bosnia , for example , said the Serbs could keep only 20% of Bosnia .
9 Sainsbury has expressed an interest in the site but a Government clause imposed during the bus privatisation programme means Caldaire can keep only 35pc of the purchase price above £1.3 million effectively making a move financially impossible .
10 The true extent of the use is unknown but its high cost has certainly ensured that videodisc can claim only pockets of success and has by no means been widely influential .
11 Unfortunately , given the failure to repeat the practice of a mid-decade Census as first carried out in 1966 , this source can provide only snapshots of the population at ten-year intervals , the most recent being 1981 .
12 The Councils of both Societies , in agreeing to support the publication of the new journal , took a conscious decision that it should contain only papers of the highest quality , and that papers from Scotland 's universities , and papers on Scottish geology , should form the major part of the publication , although there has always been scope for the publication of papers on other areas , including some important theoretical papers .
13 The courts recognize and will enforce only acts of Parliament .
14 One can , therefore , quote only examples of this range , and two are given below .
15 Yeah , I I will take only part of this debate as my daughter works in .
16 This would have been so easy had they dug narrow trenches , the practice of the past , as this method can produce only scraps of unrelated evidence .
17 Successive NFER analysis demonstrated that the most effective selection process could select only 90% of children adequately — 10% would be misplaced .
18 For a $10,000 hospital stay , though , a patient would pay only 5% of the cost .
19 If the property contains only one adult , then he or she will pay only 75% of the bill of a two adult household .
20 Students will pay only 20% of the Community Charge providing they are undertaking a full time course of higher education .
21 People on income support will pay only 20% of the Community Charge .
22 While Tayside Region and Perth and Kinross District Council indicated they could afford only part of the survey , estimated at £80,000-£100,000 , the Scottish Office reply was unequivocal .
23 They will get only £2m of that back as a government grant !
24 Under the new rules , local firms importing goods valued at under $30,000 can receive only 15% of the hard currency needed to pay for them in advance , with the remainder allocated only after goods have cleared customs and value-added tax has been paid .
25 Why most pop music is rubbish ( he will often play only seconds of a record before ripping it off the turntable ) .
26 This was specified because such descriptions might reflect only recruitment of previous knowledge about the junction .
27 Another aspect of Qaddafi 's theory of democracy is that parties were forbidden because they could only represent , and could represent only sectors of the people .
28 Although Simmons indicates that such an approach may encompass only part of the traditions of study in geography , it would allow man 's impact on individual taxa and ecosystems , on biotic resources their conservation and protection ( Simmons , 1980 , p. 148 )
29 A random sample of herds might indicate that 40% of them are grazing on marginal land ; but if animals were the unit of study we might find only 20% of animals to be on marginal grazing , i.e. the 40% of herds are the smaller ones accounting for only 20% of the cattle .
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