Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sand grains themselves are confined to a layer very near to the surface and thus their erosive effect is very limited in vertical extent , while surface creep can obviously affect only an extremely limited vertical range . |
| 2 | What point has an ethical directive to pursue the general happiness addressed to beings who will necessarily seek only their own ? |
| 3 | The twin foundations for the standard advocated were that statutory terms do not necessarily possess only one inevitably correct meaning and that , in choosing between a range of possible reasonable interpretations , the precise meaning attached by the tribunal may be preferable to that of the court . |
| 4 | Strictly speaking , only two sentential contexts are required to prove semantic constituency , but of course a constituent limited to only two specific contexts would necessarily play only a minor role in a language . |
| 5 | But myths do not exist only to give human proportions to events ; they are also created to mystify experience . |
| 6 | for Community law does not exist only in some faraway place but forms part of our national legal system . |
| 7 | One thing seems clear , that such patterns did not exist only in the present largely abandoned marginal uplands , but also over great areas of the country . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do not want only Monktonhall , but the 100 years worth of coal which stretches to Musselburgh bay to be developed . |
| 10 | However , the reformism of this period did not appeal only to manual workers , and among men of the 1945 cohort of voters middle class electors were in fact more likely to be Labour than working class electors were to be Conservative . |
| 11 | The firm should normally act only in a professional or agency role . |
| 12 | We should normally act only in a professional or agency capacity in connection with negotiations ( ie not as principal ) and the client for whom we are acting should be clearly identified . |
| 13 | In seeking solutions to such global problems as hunger and environmental issues we will no longer seek only material solutions . |
| 14 | For the gifts of Frankenstein do not include only material things like the seat coverings which you admired in my automobile — or the automobile itself . |
| 15 | One could avoid this difficulty of having to describe what we do not and can not know only if the histories satisfy the no boundary condition : they are finite in extent but have no boundaries , edges , or singularities . |
| 16 | Whilst the White Paper acknowledges that local policy objectives and resources must be a key context in planning and delivery services , the government appears to be clear that at the point of assessment , decisions must be needs-based and ‘ should not focus only on the user 's suitability for a particular existing scheme ’ ( DoH , 1989b , p. 18 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ This is sad , ’ he replied , and she felt that he did not refer only to her remark . |
| 18 | Two problems are thus solved at once : it becomes clear that terminology does not refer only to grammar , and the reasons for the terminology come before the terminology itself . |
| 19 | Which need not refer only to Pericles , though the historian can not have forgotten him . |
| 20 | One proponent of effects as unnecessitated does not speak only for himself . |
| 21 | The general rule was that a company could lawfully do only that which fell within the scope of the objects clause . |
| 22 | Set membership of a package need not comprise only source modules and the package module itself ; other packages may also be specified . |
| 23 | As we have seen , the laws of war do not consist only of what states have formally agreed to accept in a treaty or convention . |
| 24 | Despite their title , lecturers ' teaching does not consist only , or even mainly , of giving lectures . |
| 25 | The relation ’ — larger than — ’ can thus generate only a non-branching hierarchy ; in such a hierarchy we would have to say that B and C above jointly occupied the same position . |
| 26 | Rhythms do not result only from our habit and environment |
| 27 | There will be some differences , but they may be too slight to be noticed by the customers , who would normally see only one piece of each item in any case . |
| 28 | The hon. Gentleman need not look only to the health authority chief executive ; he can ask the patients . |
| 29 | These narratives do not work only to unite across space and time . |
| 30 | First , individuals do not work only for pecuniary rewards . |