Example sentences of "is [verb] only [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is ‘ the men ’ who act as a body , and the actual organizer is recognized only as the symbolic embodiment of ‘ the men ’ , and is in no way superior or qualitatively different from ‘ the men ’ ‘ |
| 2 | The call is uttered only by the male cuckoo , who arrives slightly before the female , and begins to call as soon as he reaches the breeding grounds . |
| 3 | The list given here is intended only as a general guide . |
| 4 | According to Mark Doran , Unix International 's technical project manager , Application Linking wo n't be a full object-oriented specification and is intended only as a stop-gap definition until the Object Group delivers object linking and embedding guidelines in two years ' time . |
| 5 | Of course H is intended only as an easy illustration of what might go wrong — and go wrong it does in some of the important generalisations of Z that arise in Section 3.6 . |
| 6 | Soon the great awards of knighthoods give way to the decorations reserved for the civil and military services , and the shuffle of office workers is broken only by the occasional clink of a cavalryman 's spur . |
| 7 | The ensuing silence is broken only by the quick rustle of Anya surrepitiously scratching her knee through a layer of denim . |
| 8 | Here is spring and summertime the quiet is broken only by the soothing sound of wood pigeons , which somehow creates an aura of timelessness . |
| 9 | The silence is punctuated only by the light banter among the four ops room members and radio babble with the captain on the bridge . |
| 10 | By permutations of these various incidents the number of possible classes is limited only by the total number of shares . |
| 11 | Since the Crown Court is a superior court , its power to punish is limited only by the maximum penalty set for the offence by an Act of Parliament . |
| 12 | No District Court accepted the exclusivity argument , many relying on a superficial reading of Article 27(c) of the Convention , which allows Contracting States to permit ‘ by internal law or practice , methods of taking evidence other than those provided for in this Convention ’ ; the better view is that this freedom is given only to the requested country and does not refer to the country from which the discovery request originates . |
| 13 | He permanently secretes a thick , transparent mucus about this body , which is clad only in an ancient blue-black robe . |
| 14 | God is permitted only as a verifiable divinity who gets extremely cross at man 's transgressions . |
| 15 | In the Federal Republic , the ‘ chancellor-democracy ’ has at its disposal a continually growing government and management expertise which outlasts all parliaments : the twenty year long permanence of this government constellation is modified only by the federal structure . |
| 16 | The conservative teacher who is looking only for a reasonable salary and a peaceful life . |
| 17 | The complete set of values obtained is presented only on the following Figure , but some of the raw data are also given [ see Table ] in order to show the considerable variation between different positions . |
| 18 | I justify this departure from intention by advancing a theory that Skye was obviously once a part of the mainland : a study of the map confirms that it is separated only by a narrow channel , Kyle Rhea , the configuration of the shores on either side matching as though torn apart in ages past . |
| 19 | But the celebrated Mayfair fashion house is operating only on a week-to-week basis to complete orders and little hope exists of securing its future by finding a buyer . |
| 20 | Too often reading is seen only as a solitary activity : Spellbinders promote the more social aspects of reading . |
| 21 | This altogether much safer-feeling arrangement is marred only by a transitory , tip-toe uncertainly as the car turns into faster corners . |
| 22 | As Attridge shows this means that poetry claiming to be perfecting the natural ( acting according to decorum ) establishes its claim to do so by using a rhetoric which is employed only by a learned few whose language is distanced from the natural language of the majority . |
| 23 | Gradually you make your standards ( criteria ) of your child 's approximations to the correct response more and more stringent until , in the end , he is rewarded only for the precise behaviour that is required . |
| 24 | However , it is based only on the net asset value and there is no market in the shares . |
| 25 | 202–120 BC ) , but this opinion is based only on the constitutional chapters in his history of the world , for elsewhere he shows no sign of it . |
| 26 | A long half-mile to the east , across a rising plateau , is the summit of Gragareth and it is reached only after a stumbling progress through untamed and unfriendly vegetation . |
| 27 | If the Laboulbeniales is found only on a single species of guest , or only on the host , this may indicate that the commensal relationship is of fairly recent origin . |
| 28 | Now it is found only in a narrow strip of land in Niger , Chad , Mali and Sudan . |
| 29 | ( This sense is found only in the present perfect or the past , but never in the non-past . ) |
| 30 | This study has shown that EGF is found only in the endothelial cells of the capillaries of the normal oesophageal mucosa and that the peptide is detectable significantly less frequently than normal in the inflamed oesophageal mucosa . |