Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] only [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ‘ money bill ’ , one dealing essentially with financial matters , can be delayed only for a month . |
| 2 | An answer to this , I shall argue , so far as an answer is possible at all , can be given only through an analysis of experiences from the point of view of the one who has the experiences ; i.e. through a phenomenological analysis of the modes of experiencing . |
| 3 | At the level of the Governor of the state to which that city belongs , the riot will be regarded only as a nuisance ; above that the king or the premier will hardly be aware of it at all , and to the whole world , it will be trivial . |
| 4 | The board can also be used for incline/decline work with barbells and dumb-bells , and does not have to be regarded only as a piece of equipment for exercising the stomach . |
| 5 | This interpretation of trust law is founded on well established authorities and could probably be overturned only by a decision of the House of Lords . |
| 6 | Increasingly , plants are seen as an integral part of any office complex and are not something to be considered only during a refurbishment or initial build . |
| 7 | It is often said that an assault can be committed only by an act and that an omission is not sufficient . |
| 8 | This legal bond can be severed only through a court of law , and even then the court may insist on one partner continuing to make provision for the other . |
| 9 | Worthwhile objectives can be expected only after a listing of what each partner could bring to a relationship . |
| 10 | To be accurate , ‘ private press ’ should be applied only to a press where the owner 's or operator 's chief objective is to print a fine book , without being at the mercy of a publisher 's instructions and a first necessity to show a profit , even though he may sell his wares through commercial channels . |
| 11 | John Carter , on the other hand , concluded that ‘ as generally understood , the term private press would be applied only to a shop where the work was hand-set and hand-printed ’ . |
| 12 | No , Kensington and Kennington might be separated only by a letter of the alphabet but the streets that came between them took you out of one world and into another . |
| 13 | Since the order can be made only by a crown court after prosecution for a serious offence , a considerable number of patients , who are equally dangerous or vulnerable , are denied this provision . |
| 14 | The legal definition of crime adopted here should be seen only as a starting point . |
| 15 | It is not open to the promisor to go back and undo the loss ; he is able only to make it good , and this can be done only by an award of damages in the amount of the promisee 's interest . |
| 16 | The basic requirements for the grant of a patent are stated in section 1(1) of the Patents Act 1977 as follows : A patent may be granted only for an invention in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied , that is to say — a ) the invention is new ; b ) it involves an inventive step ; c ) it is capable of industrial application ; d ) the grant of a patent for it is not excluded by subsections ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) below … |
| 17 | But that can be granted only to a refugee who is seeking asylum on the ground that the Government might have administered a case improperly and not followed its own rules for processing refugees under a United Nations Convention . |
| 18 | The changes in exports and imports of manufactures , for example , can not be attributed only to a failure , or in some cases success , of British managers and workers ; and the rise in ( portfolio ) investment overseas by UK banks and finance houses is not explicable in terms of the propensities of British bankers or the character of the UK banking system alone . |
| 19 | It has to be emphasized that the pedagogical grammar should be used only with a language assistant who is a native speaker of the language . |
| 20 | Some adopt the server/client approach — where one or other of the machines acts as a sort of networked machine , and can be used only as a file and print server . |
| 21 | Like Wainwright he hopes his route will be used only as a guide and people will branch off in parts to find their own little routes . |
| 22 | The annual fees can change markedly from year to year and so the figures which follow , for the session 1993–94 , must be used only as an indication of the minimum likely to apply in later sessions . |
| 23 | The fees can change from year to year and the figures appearing in section ( 2 ) of the table below headed ‘ Estimated Costs ’ must be used only as an indication of the minimum likely to apply . |
| 24 | Tight coupling relations may be used only in a module of type PACKAGE and must refer to a PREFERRED , LATEST or SELECTED version of the referenced module . |
| 25 | Very high temperatures and pressures , which could be produced only by a fission explosion , would be required to ignite the fusion reaction between hydrogen isotopes . |
| 26 | Does he agree that a proposal that would impose a massive tax burden on 4 million ordinary people could be produced only by a shower such as those who currently comprise the Opposition ? |
| 27 | Academic basics can be drummed into a reasonably receptive dealer through the BIDS or Stock Exchange courses , but the practical market know-how that was most needed could be grasped only over a period . |
| 28 | In addition , the right of control conveyed by the ‘ no disp ’ clause can be exercised only in a manner consistent with the carrier 's normal operations of storage , loading , and unloading . |
| 29 | Skocpol ( 1979 ) , in a study of three revolutions , concludes that although ‘ questions of state power have been basic in social-revolutionary transformations … state power can not be understood only as an instrument of class domination , nor can changes in state structure be explained primarily in terms of class conflicts ’ ( p. 284 ) ; while Hall ( 1985 ) , in contrasting agrarian civilizations with industrial societies is mainly concerned , as was Max Weber , with the ‘ rise of the West ’ as a modernizing , progressive force , and with its possible decline as industrialization spreads throughout the world . |
| 30 | In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world . |