Example sentences of "act only " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treaty will probably include a clause on ‘ subsidiarity ’ , the principle that the Community should act only on issues where it is inappropriate for decisions to be taken by national governments . |
| 2 | He began the Standard 's Premonitions Bureau to record and date any claims of prophecies , and which would act only as an independent and impartial witness . |
| 3 | However , restrictions are placed on the power of management to combat a hostile takeover bid , for fear that they might act only in their own interests rather than for those of the company or its shareholders . |
| 4 | ‘ What Souness has said will act only as a greater incentive for us in the replay at Selhurst Park . ’ |
| 5 | The loop could act only as a monitor to be interrogated in the case of breakdown of comprehension . |
| 6 | At recombination these scales were larger than the Hubble radius , and because microphysical processes can act only on scales less than the Hubble radius , these fluctuations must have been produced by the Sachs-Wolfe effect . |
| 7 | He was not in favour of an over-active presidency — as he saw that of Roosevelt — but instead proposed to consult widely and act only after calm deliberation . |
| 8 | Rather , they can act only as a guide to decision making by making the assumptions underlying the decisions explicit . |
| 9 | Perhaps the greatest restrictions are that he or she can act only on the request of an MP and the only weapon available is to publicize the misdeeds . |
| 10 | We should 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 . |
| 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 | Veljko Kadijevic on Sept. 12 rejected an order from Mesic ( the nominal commander of the JNA ) to withdraw troops to barracks within 48 hours and reiterated that the JNA would act only if ordered by the Presidency as a whole . |
| 14 | The external demands on government are such that it can often act only as arbiter between competing demands and respond , under guidance from civil servants , to international events and trends over which it has no direct influence . |