Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] only [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They live in the past , believing that if only they had had loving parents , or if only little sister had n't been born , or if only they had n't married so-and-so , then everything would be fine . |
| 2 | The House has not focused its mind yet on whether any name should be published , or whether only some names should or should not be published . |
| 3 | This may come more naturally and easily to some than to others , but it is possible that where a prolonged conscious effort has been made to tap this creative source , greater understanding and appreciation result than where only little work has been needed . |
| 4 | Most women would agree that if only minimal pain relief is used the birth is much more focused and the baby may be better off too . |
| 5 | Mr Parkinson said There would be ‘ huge difficulties ’ in tracking down those who failed to pay : for their journeys , estiamting that if only one in ten 10 motorists 10 per cent refused to pay their bill , the Government would need to collect 63 million times a year.be seeking payment for 63 million journeys a year . |
| 6 | She nodded , thinking that if only one person was to know in 43 , nevertheless in this house surely several must ? |
| 7 | It should be noted that if only one of the shareholders of the company is not connected to a director or manager of the company then the exemption will be unavailable to both the vendors and the purchaser . |
| 8 | The sufferer believes that if only other people would change then everything would be all right . |
| 9 | ( The mildly mathematically-minded reader will appreciate that if only four genes are considered , each providing a simple alternative — as if all children were blue eyed or brown eyed with no other variation — the number of individuals of different characteristics possible would be 27 . |
| 10 | He had to write a tiny snippet insisting that it was irony and the editor printed a token letter by a woman who had pointed out that if only young girls were left — and not enough of them to go round — only rich old men would have any chance of sex . |
| 11 | The trade magazine Electrical Review even did a calculation which showed that if only half the official objectors spoke for just fifteen minutes the hearings would continue well into 1990 . |
| 12 | In his 1955–56 Annual Report , for example , Jacques wrote that if only this level of grant could be achieved , something could be done to raise part-time tutors ' fees and so reduce the glaring disparity between the minima of £1 110. 0d. for teaching a WEA Terminal class and £3 10s. 0d. for taking a University Sessional class . |
| 13 | The idea is that articulate language is a barrier to rather than a medium of communication and that if only this barrier could be removed , human beings would revert to a golden age of wordless , heartfelt communication . |
| 14 | The decision in Barrow , Lane & ballard v. Phillips clearly indicates that if only some of the goods have perished that is sufficient to make the contract void . |
| 15 | Smithers and Robinson ( 1989 ) have also produced evidence that while only one or two per cent of students with high A-level scores ( 12 or above ) fail to complete , this rises to around 15% for those with low scores ( 6 or below ) . |
| 16 | The net result is that while only nine cases were missed ( false negative ) , 492 were included in the original high risk group but did not subsequently abuse ( false positive ) . |
| 17 | In another study , Johansen and Fuguitt ( 1984 ) from a sample of 572 of the 11,334 villages in the USA ( defined as a population of less than 2,500 in 1960 ) found that while only half of the villages had grown in the 1950s , two-thirds had grown in the 1970s , and that this growth was no longer restricted to the larger villages . |
| 18 | I was uneasy in the dark and would have turned on the torch except that after only one fifth of the journey I had used half my batteries . |
| 19 | Put another way , this means that after only 200 milliseconds the target word cohort would have contained an average of 29 words if the word was being identified independently of any context . |
| 20 | Is it not totally unacceptable that when only 13 questions were answered on Welsh matters , four of them should have been asked by Hon. Members with English constituencies and that most of the questions were answered by a Member representing an English constituency ? |
| 21 | Not least , stingless bees as a group are naturally inventive , and although only some species feed on carrion , many others supplement the basic nectar-and-pollen diet with a wide variety of foods such as rotten fruit , sap , faeces and human sweat . |
| 22 | ‘ She has given her final view today and although only 15 and a half , she knows her own mind . ’ |
| 23 | And if only fleeting mastery is possible for exceptionally advantaged presidents , what of the generality , of those who possess few resources ? |
| 24 | If six men were left , we could not take control of the ship ; and because only six were left , the captain 's men did not need my help . |
| 25 | First , from ( 3 ) we have unc and since only these diagonal elements have changed , it follows that unc as it must in a similar transformation . |
| 26 | Nothing is known about the first 7 years of this person 's life , and whilst only scattered information exists about the middle span , we know that only at the age 42 did the Earth begin to flower . |
| 27 | There were two jangling mistakes from Horner giving away early penalty points to Soutter , and after only 11 minutes the former champion had pocketed the first game with a good backhand drop from a short ball . |
| 28 | After a couple of hours rest , it runs off into the bush to find food for itself , and after only twenty-four hours it is able to fly . |
| 29 | Calculating your personal allowance used to be fairly complicated as there were all sorts of variations according to whether individuals were married or single and whether only one partner , or both husband and wife , worked . |
| 30 | It was intended that he should enter the medical profession but for financial reasons this became impossible , and when only seventeen he joined the office of the district superintendent of the line of the London and North Western Railway at Euston . |