Example sentences of "only [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Readability researchers often emphasise that it is not possible to use a formula to assess difficulty at the individual sentence level ; a formula or graph can only make predictions about difficulty at a global level . |
| 2 | In future Castle will only make provision for amortisation of audio copyrights for permanent diminution in value . |
| 3 | Sometimes this is built-in to the carpet in the form of a heavy foam backing which only needs layers of newspaper underneath it . |
| 4 | These and other findings discussed by Johnston and McClelland ( 1980 ) not only provide evidence in favour of their model of visual word-recognition , but also evidence against other types of model . |
| 5 | Each of the ‘ sentences ’ in the network only has meaning in terms of its relations to other sentences , and each of these sentences only has meaning in relation to others , and so on . |
| 6 | The annual General Household Survey has only included questions on cohabitation since 1979 and estimates suggest that the proportion of women aged 18 to 49 years cohabiting has doubled from 3 per cent in 1979 to 6 per cent in 1987 . |
| 7 | We have a responsibility not only to provide businesses with access to information , but also with structures that enable them to talk to each other and to trade with the residential community ; and , |
| 8 | Private hire cars can only carry passengers in response to requests by phone . |
| 9 | Pausing only to pour buckets of water into the burning dustbins , and to be sick in the basin on the landing , Rainbow races for the nearest pay-phone , to ruin several people 's evenings . |
| 10 | Sad to see a skilled worker being offered so little yet amused that people like me on Employment Action and Employment Training only receive 20p per hour after deductions for travel costs . |
| 11 | Companies that set up their regional headquarters in Singapore are only taxed 10% on income from approved services , including trading in foreign exchange and offshore investments . |
| 12 | Although the limb is three-dimensional I will treat it as if it were two-dimensional and only consider position with respect to two axes , the antero-posterior axis which runs across the limb from digit 2 to digit 4 , and the long , or proximo-distal axis , which runs from the shoulder to the tip of the digits . |
| 13 | In the next year , one in which bad harvests had pushed up the price of wheat to 119s. 6d. a quarter , the overseers not only paid 1s. per week to Mary , but also found a further 2s. per week for Thomas himself from 26 May until 30 June on account of him having ‘ No work ’ . |
| 14 | We were once in a dug-out , I recollect : there were only owd bits o' wood on the top of it . |
| 15 | This chapter looks at how each of the different aspects of this strategy has been employed , not only to free money from welfare for tax cuts but also to gain an appreciation of the extent of the disenfranchisement from an insurance-based welfare that has occurred . |
| 16 | The Law Society considers that the Law Commission 's proposals will have a significant practical application , not only to solve problems in relation to incapacitated people , but also to provide ways in which potential conflicts or disputes can be avoided . |
| 17 | If historians only uncover images of disability in charity advertising and stories of helplessness or courage , with no alternatives , what will that mean for a future population of disabled people ? |
| 18 | We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space ; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things . |
| 19 | China 's view was that Taiwan could only enter GATT as part of China . |
| 20 | In short , wage inflation operates not only to divert resources from investment in the country 's manufacturing capacity but also to make borrowing and exporting more and more difficult . |
| 21 | Germany was constitutionally permitted only to send troops in defence of NATO territory , although following the December 1990 all-German election Chancellor Helmut Kohl had conceded that this rule would have to be changed . |
| 22 | Paddy would only change hands as part of a specific economic debt contracted outside the field of kinship relations . |
| 23 | I only saw highlights on match of the day , but from what I saw , the play was amazing . |
| 24 | When he wanted to bring witnesses from New York to a court in Georgia , the judge only allowed $1.50 per day for meals and hotel bills . |
| 25 | It is common ground that any power to make the order sought must be found in the Act , since the English courts have no inherent jurisdiction to act in aid of a foreign court and , as a matter of English domestic law , treaties only take effect as part of that law to the extent that they are incorporated by statute , with or without modification . |
| 26 | It only seeks relationships in order to be loved . |
| 27 | Again , sentences only express propositions by virtue of specific contexts and a specific encoder within a deictic field . |
| 28 | Further , LCH has in recent years agreed with most , if not all , of the London markets that it will only accept contracts for registration from clearing members who are members of the relevant market.3 A financial futures contract will be registered only if the clearing members in whose names it is submitted are members of the financial futures market . |
| 29 | If the particulars are not supplied , he may apply to the court , which will only order particulars before defence for good reason ( Ord 6 , r 7(2) ) . |
| 30 | The leading case is Anisminic Ltd v. Foreign Compensation Commission , where the House of Lords held that the effect of an exclusion clause is only to prevent errors of law by a tribunal which are within its jurisdiction : the clause would not prevent the review of decisions outside jurisdiction . |