Example sentences of "that [subord] only [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She nodded , thinking that if only one person was to know in 43 , nevertheless in this house surely several must ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The sufferer believes that if only other people would change then everything would be all right . |
| 6 | ( 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |