Example sentences of "only [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes must have been as great as those in western Europe after 1789 , but their impact could only be traced piecemeal . |
| 2 | While the decision can not be impugned on the facts , it undoubtedly confirms the difficulties which inventor employees face where the employer 's sales can only be traced to a single main purchaser of the patented product . |
| 3 | He found that some of his Pound negatives could only be printed effectively with platinum paper , which has a very long tonal range . |
| 4 | State enterprises may be converted into limited-liability companies or joint-stock companies , but financial institutions or saving co-operatives may only be converted into joint-stock companies . |
| 5 | Second , no respectable economist derives a trend by comparing a trough year ( 1981 ) with a peak ( 1988 ) : sensible figures can only be obtained by contrasting peak-with-peak or trough-with-trough . |
| 6 | The SD in the industrial town of Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia reported complaints in March 1941 from the poorer sections of the population that badges bearing a picture of the Führer could only be obtained through a sizeable contribution to Winter Aid collectors , and that there were too few to satisfy the demand . |
| 7 | Up to the middle of the nineteenth century , water could only be obtained from wells — which frequently also became places of meetings and entertainment , e.g. Sadlers Wells , or by collecting and storing rain water , or it could be purchased from water vendors , at three pailsful for a penny . |
| 8 | It represents a tremendous opportunity and challenge , but these will only be obtained if the development of organisational change and information systems is properly integrated and managed . |
| 9 | Please note that tickets for Event 16 can only be obtained in advance from York Music Centre . |
| 10 | ‘ for years before her paper pica appeared , the patient recalled eating a special type of mud which contained a distinctive smell and could only be obtained by digging in a certain area of a particular field . ’ |
| 11 | It is a sadly neglected work , and again the only serious alternative to Järvi is Stravinsky 's Chicago recording which like the Jeu can only be obtained as part of a mammoth 22-CD Sony set of virtually all Stravinsky 's major works ( totally indispensable though that is ) . |
| 12 | This circuit is not designed to produce precise daily timings and maximum repeat accuracy will only be obtained if the temperature of the unit is kept reasonably constant . |
| 13 | Every nutrient that is required for energy , growth , repair , health , breeding and normal species behaviour can only be obtained from a diet that is balanced ; and there are many examples of things that go wrong when even traces of certain minerals are deficient in the diet . |
| 14 | If there are no goods in the shops ; or if food can only be obtained by rationing ; or if the state siphons off the lion 's share of increased earnings as taxation ; or if an economy seems incapable of growing , then people begin to question the fundamentals on which such a system is built . |
| 15 | Treatment for Thrush can only be obtained on prescription from your doctor or clinic . |
| 16 | The major tool of management was always employment , for it was only through interest that anything worthwhile could be obtained , for even appointments in mercantile houses at home or abroad could often only be obtained through interest , while all appointments in government service were patronage appointments , in fact if not always in theory . |
| 17 | Since a complete understanding of developmental mechanisms can only be obtained if the sequence and timing of events is known , methods for obtaining synchronized embryos and their constituent blastomeres have to be developed . |
| 18 | Access to special procedure material can only be obtained by virtue of a warrant issued by a circuit judge who can issue such a warrant either where , prior to the Act , there would have been access to such material and the first set of access conditions apply or where the judge has reasonable grounds to believe ( i ) a serious arrestable offence has been committed . |
| 19 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 20 | These compensatory orders can only be obtained against the contravener who , for section 6 purposes , has been carrying on the unauthorised investment business , or who , for section 61 purposes , has contravened one or other of the statutory provisions referred to in section 61(1) ( a ) . |
| 21 | Dyes for hair colouring could only be obtained from plants and one of the oldest of these is the red dye henna , obtained from the powdered dried leaves of the plant Lawsonia inermis . |
| 22 | Such a near-continuous set of numbers can only be obtained if nine records are stored per track , and this will usually not be the best number of records for the file under consideration . |
| 23 | A system of equations that provides an accurate and physically satisfactory representation of an experimental system can be cumbersome , and even complicated and of high order , so solutions may often only be obtained as numerical approximations to solutions . |
| 24 | However analytical results can only be obtained if saturation is neglected , so this simplification has been used here . |
| 25 | [ 5. l 5 ( a ) ] we see that a real value for the maximum operating frequency can only be obtained if H is greater than unity , so that the square toot in the denominator can be evaluated . |
| 26 | Their curvatures can only be obtained rigorously from the solution of Einstein 's equation . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , experience is the best guide to fabric interpretation , and this can only be obtained by study of many different sediment types . |
| 28 | This information could only be obtained by conversion of the CED typesetting tape to a usable representation of the information . |
| 29 | An employment visa ( munkavallaloi vizum ) , which could only be obtained if the foreigner had a work permit , was also introduced . |
| 30 | Japan claims that essential data on the Minke population can only be obtained from dead whales . |