Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] only [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For starters we chose M & G Income Investment Trust which invests only in the shares of top companies , ’ says Keith . |
| 2 | Moreover , the Commission made no mention of this Directive in its action for failure to fulfil obligations , which relates only to the nationality requirements . |
| 3 | Otherwise ideas which should instigate appraisal will continue to be made into simple tokens for easy assimilation , converted into catchphrases or vague , fashionable buzz-words in vogue , and instead of rational development , we shall continue to get change which comes only with the vagaries of fashion . |
| 4 | Statements by the West German Bundesbank indicate that it views monetary union as a state which comes only at the end of a very long process of economic convergence . |
| 5 | It has been said that the surety 's obligation is simply that of paying money and , of course , in a sense that is true if one looks only at the remedy which the landlord has against him in the event of default by the tenant . |
| 6 | The task is either hopeless or depends on a very bold speculation about brain differences , if one focuses only on the wink itself . |
| 7 | One solution is to allocate property rights over the resources , so that the cost of the individual 's use of them falls only on the individual . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , it differs only in the way it 's played . ’ |
| 9 | Mr. Robert Hughes : I think that the Minister intended some slight criticism of the new clause on the ground that it refers only to the companies covered by the Bill . |
| 10 | It refers only to the cause of a difference not to a whole course of development . |
| 11 | In a brain bigger than a city , with geological slowness , He thinks only of the Weight . |
| 12 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 13 | It looks only at the side of business interests who think only of trade liberalization . |
| 14 | According to the general principles of thermodynamics it depends only on the temperature . |
| 15 | As it occurs only in the males it has been suggested that it is somehow employed in male-to-male rivalry . |
| 16 | The most catastrophic disease , witches ' broom , has never spread beyond South and Central America and the Caribbean ; even in Brazil , it occurs only in the Amazon basin and not in the main cocoa-growing region of Bahia , 2000 km to the south-east . |
| 17 | First , the effect is pathway-specific ; that is , it occurs only in the cells to which the conditioning train is delivered , rather than spreading across to others — it is thus the result of the functioning of a network of specific connections rather than a wave of diffuse activity ; because there are several distinct input pathways to separate areas even within a single hippocampal slice , this specificity can be elegantly demonstrated . |
| 18 | Thus , for example , a matrix of order 6 having three equal eigenvalues{ ga } , two equal eigenvalues{ gb } , and an unrepeated eigenvalue{ gg } , would have as its canonical form unc where each x may be zero or unity ; it occurs only within the submatrices containing groups of equal eigenvalues . |
| 19 | I fully agree with my noble and learned friend 's observation that the dictum in Morris has led to confusion and complication where those in de facto control have been charged with theft from a company and I , too , consider , on the basis ( which he assumes only for the sake of argument ) that the Morris dictum is correct , that it would be wrong , when a person who by virtue of his position in the company constitutes ‘ the directing mind and will of the company ’ is accused of stealing from the company , to acquit that person on the ground that , in his capacity as the company , he has consented to the taking ( by himself ) of the company 's property , with the result that no appropriation , and therefore no theft , has occurred . |
| 20 | Each one is selected as a separate selfish gene , but it flourishes only in the presence of the right set of other genes . |
| 21 | There may be a freedom to protest — but it exists only to the extent that it is permitted by the police . |
| 22 | It exists only in the river systems of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra . |
| 23 | A further and very different way in which Figure 9 is incomplete is that it deals only with the processing of words and has nothing to say about the processing of non-words . |
| 24 | It leads only to the Charles Inglis Clark mountain hut , a prestigious private hut owned by the Scottish Mountaineering Club and hence frequented by respectable rock-climbing doctors , lawyers and accountants . |
| 25 | Hence a conjugate of ( F 2 2 ) z , such as P(FR1)JP-I is also a pair of exchanges and it acts only on the pieces that are brought to the four working locations by P . |
| 26 | The term ‘ permanent ’ is something of a misnomer , for the content of any pasture is constantly changing as conditions become more favourable for one species and less for another ; it applies only to the fact that a pasture remains in grass for an indefinite period . |
| 27 | Ideally , this provision should be deleted , or at the very least it should be amended so that it applies only to the consent of a mortgagee or superior landlord actually required under the terms of an existing mortgage or superior lease . |
| 28 | Evidence of religious aspects comes from a sculptured relief of a hunter god , of which Professor J. M. C. Toynbee has written : ‘ even in its mutilated state , ( it ) is one of the most satisfying extant pieces of Romano-British sculpture known to us ’ , though it consists only of the torso . |
| 29 | To say that the other can remain absolutely other , that he enters only into the relationship of conversation , is to say that history itself , an identification of the same , can not claim to totalise the same and the other . |
| 30 | The Programmer unconditionally and irrevocably waives the rights conferred by Chapter IV of Part I of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 on such ( if any ) of the Program as does not consist in a computer program or a computer-generated work : this waiver extends to the Publisher 's sub-licensees and successors in title : it relates only to the components and not the Programmer 's works generally or to works of a particular description . |