Example sentences of "[vb mod] only [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his introduction to the published plans of this and some of his other early houses he writes , ‘ Ornaments are to be cautiously introduced ; those ought only to be used that are simple , applicable and characteristic of their situations : they must be designed with regularity and be perfectly distinct in their outlines … |
| 2 | Fundamental and irreversible changes ought only to be imposed , if at all , in the light of an unmistakable national consensus . |
| 3 | In short , Avenches , lying aside a little from the bypassing main road from Bern to Lausanne , offers a new perspective on the Swiss Mittelland for the visitor who may only until then have known the ski or climatic resorts of the mountain regions . |
| 4 | He described the celebration of saints ' days and festivals as manifestations of the ‘ splendid outward dignity of our religion , forcible witnesses of ancient truth , provocations to the exercise of all piety , shadows of our endless felicity in heaven … wherein they which can not be drawn to hearken unto what we teach may only by looking upon that we do , in a manner read whatsoever we believe ’ . |
| 5 | I 'll only with them . |
| 6 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 7 | But I was almost glad when Mr Robinson decided to tell the company at large of his Italian journeyings with Wordsworth , who desired to be back at home with every step they made , and could only with the utmost difficulty be persuaded to look about him . |
| 8 | Oh it could only of been at five thirty |
| 9 | ‘ The Act of 1833 publicly affirmed that the precepts of common humanity were not so alien to the logic of industrial capitalism that checks could only by imposed from without . |
| 10 | Timbers affected by wet rot need only to be dried out , or cut out and replaced with sound timbers , and so long as the source of wetting is removed and air allowed to circulate , the rot will not recur . |
| 11 | An officer who spent his career patrolling a middle-class suburb would only in extreme circumstances be involved in a physical encounter . |
| 12 | Those who manage to do so will only by some very rare chance hit exactly the right number . |
| 13 | Whilst individuals in the company privately admit to knowing little about ‘ race and racism ’ , a major research contract which did not go out to open tender is safely located in an institution which can only with a degree of implausibility don the cloak of academic neutrality . |
| 14 | Rapid industrial growth in the latter half of the nineteenth century promoted a political culture that can only with caution be described as radical . |
| 15 | It is in my opinion axiomatic that a boundary which does not exist is ipso facto incapable of being re-aligned , but can only with ju justification be created de novo . |
| 16 | The learning that can be prescribed , they say , can only at the most be a framework within which a vast amount of day-to-day scope for creativity and choice must remain . |
| 17 | We can only by hope but er you know , with creating new ideas , keeping the quality good , so you know you feel right with prices your pocket and er therefore we will survive . |
| 18 | What all of them contend is that the auditory effect of all English-language verse can only in a schematic and starveling fashion be pin-pointed by applying the only two measurements that traditional scansion recognizes : on the one hand the number of syllables , on the other the number of occurrences of ictus or ‘ stress ’ . |