Example sentences of "[noun] on [noun] [verb] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Packford was happy to experiment with all kinds of design , his work on the launch and re-launch of the Mail on Sunday had only confirmed the view that he and Sutton shared . |
| 2 | Because of the nature of crime in Easton , most Land Rovers on routine calls only contain the driver and observer , both seated in the front , making some sort of conversation between them possible . |
| 3 | The mistreatment of mental patients on Leros differs only in degree from others of the nine state mental hospitals in Greece , which together house some 10,000 patients . |
| 4 | Such evolution would imply that the constraints on optimization occur only on the trade-off curve itself , and not inside it , and so is hardly plausible : our point is that the optimality argument is independent of genetic details such as pleiotropy . |
| 5 | Precise information on deaths dates only from 1868 ; before that typhoid was confused with the symptomatically similar but epidemiologically different disease , louse-borne typhus . |
| 6 | Women on average spend only five years out of paid work when they are having children , although there are wide variations in this . |