Example sentences of "be [vb pp] only [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between the two countries is that the formal wording of the United States Constitution can be amended only by an extraordinary process , i.e. , one that goes beyond the provisions employed for amending the ordinary law . |
| 2 | But Living Wills should be regarded only as a general indication of our wishes . |
| 3 | Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ . |
| 4 | arguments , all of which can be developed only by a long mental soak in the subject . |
| 5 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 6 | The practical accuracy of this result , which is central to the determination of the fine structure , constant , is believed to be limited only by the residual dissipative current due to hopping through localised states . |
| 7 | Restaurants , with one or two exceptions , tend to be located only in the small towns . |
| 8 | This assumption can be made explicit by making literal use of an " existence predicate " , and sometimes any residual doubts about what is assumed on a particular occasion can be resolved only by a repeated and emphatic use of such predicates ; but , as is clear from what has been said so far , the use of such predicates is not analogous to acts of property ascription , especially if " properties " are understood in the sense of " accidental properties " . |
| 9 | Yet another victim , no doubt , of this Government 's crippling monetary policies , policies which have been driving this country to economic ruin for the past 13 years , and which can be alleviated only by the immediate election of a Labour government . |
| 10 | This means that an extra search will be added only for every additional ( 2n + 1 ) or ( 3n + 1 ) records , where n is the number of records per track . |
| 11 | The court held that the false description 40 days later was not associated with the sale and therefore no offence was committed under section J. This does not mean that the offence can be committed only by the immediate supplier . |
| 12 | Walesa 's call was supported by the Citizens ' Parliamentary Club , a pro-Walesa parliamentary caucus , and by the Centre Alliance and the Green Party , but was opposed by the Democratic Party and the Democratic Left parliamentary groups which argued that the dissolution issue should be broached only after the electoral law and constitutional amendments had been adopted . |
| 13 | It will be shown , as was already briefly hinted earlier on , that the concept of objective order is inseparable from the idea of a plurality of witnessing selves — a " self " to be understood here in the sense of an experienced unity of biographical time , not as some kind of substantival entity — and the idea of error ; and that the latter ideas in turn can be clarified only through a careful study of the nature of language . |
| 14 | It might possibly be occupied only by a raddled ancient , of no threat . |
| 15 | Although there is some laxity in the use of the term , ‘ broadside ’ or ‘ broadsheet ’ should properly be applied only to a complete , undivided large sheet , printed on one side . |
| 16 | One consequence of augmenting the focus registers as in SPAR is that it becomes more common for candidates to be separated only by a weak focusing preference . |
| 17 | If a decision has been taken to sell or terminate an operation and the reporting entity is demonstrably committed to the sale or termination , then provisions should be made only for the direct costs of the sale or termination and any operating losses of the operation up to the date of sale or termination ; provisions for future operating losses may not be made in other circumstances . |
| 18 | Structuralism is revolutionary because it can be adopted only as an alternative and not as an addition to traditional academic habits . |
| 19 | REMEMBER — IN BRITAIN , IMAX CAN BE SEEN ONLY AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY , FILM AND TELEVISION , BRADFORD |
| 20 | Of miraculously complicated organisms so small that they can be seen only by a privileged élite , through microscopes costing several thousand pounds ? |
| 21 | Just as zooming should be done only for a good reason , panning is also a camera move which should be used sparingly if it is not to become visually irritating . |
| 22 | This is known , for reasons that I 'll point out in a second , as a macroscopic technique , and the currents were usually identified through replacement of ions selectively , and of course this can generally be done only in the external medium , because you do n't have control over the internal medium . |
| 23 | If any greater certainty could be given then it could be done only by an unacceptable narrowing of the duty to restrict it to a part of the auditors responsibilities and we 're also concerned that to do so could have potentially wide ranging implications for the scope of auditor 's functions more generally . |
| 24 | In other words , the Lords said , Parliament intended that teachers should be taxed only on the marginal cost . |
| 25 | It should be clear that such a restoration is not to be undertaken lightly , and it should be entrusted only to a skilled professional . |
| 26 | Certain tasks can be performed only through the combined efforts of a number of people working together — e.g. a police or a medical operation . |
| 27 | The Catholic miracle of transubstantiation could be performed only by an ordained priest , who then received the body and blood alone at the altar . |
| 28 | Not only does this pick them out , but the underline can be used only for the main emphasis of the sentence . |
| 29 | The table above calculates your interest payments per month , although it should be used only as an approximate guide . |
| 30 | The provision of trains that were solely first and second class , and therefore expected to be used only by the imperial race , helped this arrangement . |