Example sentences of "[be] [adj] only [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to be that only during the period of very rapid growth . |
| 2 | Acceptance of these presuppositions would seem to be possible only on the basis of faith , and this point is made by Gandhi when he says |
| 3 | Even a decentralised arrangement , it says , would fail to provide the kind of accountable local government that would be possible only by the provision of smaller unitary authorities . |
| 4 | Will my right hon. Friend send a message today to the leaders of the National Association of Local Government Officers who are spending some £2 million on a shoddy and inaccurate advertising campaign , telling them that their policies of abandoning competitive tendering , abolishing the Audit Commission and introducing a minimum wage would be acceptable only to a party which has already sold its soul to the trade union bosses ? |
| 5 | ‘ I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical , economic , or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ . But if rule-following is a practice , which must be public only in the sense of being a way of behaving rather than in the sense of being regulated by a community , how are we to derive from that thought the conclusion that the solipsist 's private language is impossible ? |
| 7 | The cuts would be noticeable only to the expert onlooker and there was certainly ‘ no cause for alarm ’ , he said . |
| 8 | If I were taking on a new act , their ability to perform on stage would be second only to the quality of their songwriting . |
| 9 | Israel 's God would be unique only in the sense that each of the gods on Mount Olympus is unique , with a particular history of actions and involvement in the human world . |
| 10 | If a holder , nonetheless , transfers his private key , the carrier will be responsible only to the party to whom it issued the last valid private key . |
| 11 | Whereas Herodotus transformed ‘ history ’ ( historia ) from a general enquiry about the world into an enquiry about past events , Thucydides believed that serious history could be concerned only with the present , or the immediate past . |
| 12 | Moral considerations are the responsibility of others to pontificate on ; I can be concerned only with the advancement of knowledge . |
| 13 | Tickets are likely to be available only on the day . |
| 14 | In order to protect the privacy of those whose lives are recorded , the material may be kept confidential for some years , or may be available only in a form where individuals can not be identified . |
| 15 | Clearly this function is continuous everywhere and fails to be differentiable only at the origin ( i.e. x = 0 is the point at which there is no tangent ) . |
| 16 | flexibility will be retained in that the Dollar Preference Shares will be redeemable only at the Company 's option , subject to the terms of issue . |
| 17 | Whether my knowledge that I shall some day die , that a nuclear war is likely sooner or later , that alcohol will kill me , that another person is suffering , does move me in one direction or another , depends on the extent of my disposition to take these things into account in choices , on awareness which may spontaneously vary from one moment to the next and be sustainable only by an effort of will . |
| 18 | They are supplemented by several recent fibreglass and steel sculptures of large scale and a dozen smaller figurative or architectural works in bronze which will be recognisable only to an audience which has tracked King 's later development at the Mayor Rowan gallery . |
| 19 | ( b ) except with the consent of the Panel , must be conditional only upon the offeror obtaining sufficient acceptances to give it more than 50 per cent of the target company 's voting rights . |
| 20 | When sued , the defendant claimed to be liable only for the cost of the seed because of a clause in their contract to that effect . |
| 21 | Age at operation was found to be significant only for the adenoidectomy only group , with those who were older at operation facing a minor disadvantage ( about 2 dB ) between three and five years postoperatively . |