Example sentences of "be [verb] only [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally the workload in any patient area is distributed unevenly throughout the day and in any case the patient 's day should not be designed only to suit the availability of the staff . |
| 2 | Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne hopes Trax will not , however , be used only to ease the lot of weary car , rail and subway passengers . |
| 3 | Washington had previously stated that the 12,000 American troops in Panama would be used only to defend the Canal and themselves . |
| 4 | During the last war these bells were silent on government orders to be used only to warn the village of a German invasion . |
| 5 | For the same reason the population estimates given in the species accounts are meant only to indicate the order of size . |
| 6 | Nursery schools , however , were generally supported because they were designed only to promote the health and education of children ; their limited opening hours did not permit mothers to work . |
| 7 | By the time of Jesus , those Jews who lived a good distance from Jerusalem were required only to make the pilgrimage at Passover . |
| 8 | This division is intended only to simplify the analysis and should not be taken to imply that the aggregate level of unemployment in a country can readily be divided into completely separate and distinguishable categories . |
| 9 | Their use ( down to say , D ) is recommended only to complete the contour of a phrase which would otherwise lose its shape . |
| 10 | The only way in now was through the computer palm-recognition slab , and that was programmed only to reverse the lock-down upon the authority of executive-level Holderness-Manolo personnel . |
| 11 | This was made explicit in his letter through a particularly unpleasant charge , that a top appointment at Stewart 's Melville was made only to protect the school from the impending action by himself . |