Example sentences of "[noun] only [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medical opinion is still divided on whether alcoholism is a disease , possibly inherited , or whether an alcoholic only lacks will-power in order to stop drinking . |
| 2 | Leonora Carrington , Leonor Fini and Meret Oppenehiem are amongst the many whose development as serious artists only took place outside Surrealism . |
| 3 | Like phonemes themselves , words only have significance in relation to other words and as part of a total system of classification . |
| 4 | The study only found evidence of food reactions in 15 per cent of the patients , compared with 70 per cent in another major study . |
| 5 | Regan ( 1977 ) complains about the lack of statistics on their background but says there are still some subject areas where inspectors only have experience of grammar and independent schools . |
| 6 | As they are practised in the modern world , high-level teaching and research only make sense in institutions . |
| 7 | One can only understand how things are in terms of concepts in the first place , so in a sense the concepts came first since natural conditions only gain significance in terms of the way one had learned to see them . |
| 8 | Moreover , these market figures only take account of multi-media delivered on a stand-alone optical disc platform . |
| 9 | Essentially , therefore , the provisions only had application to income falling within the first limb . |
| 10 | But since people only receive money at intervals ( e.g. weekly or monthly ) and not continuously , they require to hold balances of money in cash or in sight accounts . |
| 11 | There are nt that many midfielders higher than speed/macca — and basically midfield only score point for goals/assists … so strach is good value , macca is good value , speed is about right . |
| 12 | It is common ground that any power to make the order sought must be found in the Act , since the English courts have no inherent jurisdiction to act in aid of a foreign court and , as a matter of English domestic law , treaties only take effect as part of that law to the extent that they are incorporated by statute , with or without modification . |
| 13 | Each of the ‘ sentences ’ in the network only has meaning in terms of its relations to other sentences , and each of these sentences only has meaning in relation to others , and so on . |
| 14 | Irrespective of the use of surrogates , monitoring environmental processes only makes sense over time-scales which are extended by human standards ( hence the IGBP ( see below ) is designed to run for two or three decades ) ; |
| 15 | Numbers only have meaning in comparison with other numbers . |
| 16 | Share earnings for 1992 are not shown as the company only went public in February 1993 . |
| 17 | But the convention only covers pollution at sea , whereas most coastal pollution arises inland , from industrial discharges , untreated sewage , fertiliser run-off and erosion . |
| 18 | On the other hand , if it is a matter of content , does the idea of culture only have meaning for students in the humanities and the social sciences ? |
| 19 | The deviation of the feminine term from the profession into other meanings partly reflects the assumed impossibility that women should occupy these positions , and the ensuing implication that women only occupy head of household positions by virtue of selling sexual services to men , whereas in the acting profession women are much more ‘ equal ’ . |
| 20 | Each of the ‘ sentences ’ in the network only has meaning in terms of its relations to other sentences , and each of these sentences only has meaning in relation to others , and so on . |
| 21 | The civil power only has competence in matters regarding the effects of such marriages ’ ( Code of Canon Law 1917 : 1016 ) . |