Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on [noun] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of these seabirds appear on land only during spring and summer , breeding when surface waters are richest in plankton ; for the rest of the year they disperse widely . |
| 2 | That ratification depends on Parliament only dissenting in legally ambiguous ways ? |
| 3 | As chart 21 shows , Japanese firms pay on average only 30% of their post-tax profits as dividends , higher than in Germany but lower than in Britain or America . |
| 4 | God lived on earth only in the outward appearance of a man . |
| 5 | And as the grammar allows on average only 10 possible choices the potential search space is considerably restricted . |
| 6 | Radio and TV can react even more quickly than daily newspapers , with an item going on air only an hour or so after it has been received . |
| 7 | Liability is admitted and the case proceeds on quantum only . |
| 8 | For a period of twenty-five years or so , many with-profit pension plans returned on death only the premiums without any allowance for any growth . |
| 9 | In 1963 the hundred largest UK enterprises controlled on average only 40 plants each within the UK : by 1972 this had increased to 72 , and it is clear that this period of domestic expansion and takeovers was also the main period of international expansion by TNCs . |