Example sentences of "only [be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crucial issue which this sort of situation emphasises is the vital importance of perception between persons of different cultures , which can only be partially ameliorated by the procedure suggested by James Lee . |
| 2 | If that were so , there would scarcely be a government in the last 100 years which could be regarded as legitimate , but it is those uses of power and law which seem to betray or which can only be reasonably explained by a contempt for or at least an impatience with the principles of limited government and a belief that the rightness of the policies to be executed excuse or justify the methods whereby they are executed . |
| 3 | Finally , it is as well to realise that the title of ‘ karate champion ’ can only be legitimately conferred by a national governing body recognised by the Martial Arts Commission . |
| 4 | Crucially , their Interim report submitted in March 1920 noted the intimate connection between housing , transport and the ultimate distribution of land uses of all kinds , including residential , commercial and industrial , so that the housing question ‘ can only be successfully attacked by the simultaneous consideration of all these aspects over a wide area ’ . |
| 5 | For the language needs of learners can only be effectively solved by a linguistic analysis of their source problems ( Carter , 1982:2 ) . |
| 6 | This can only be properly tested in a laboratory , but all dyes used today are both permanent and colour-fast . |
| 7 | ‘ Popular music ’ ( or whatever ) can only be properly viewed within the context of the whole musical field , within which it is an active tendency ; and this field , together with its internal relationships , is never still — it is always in movement . |
| 8 | The text from the Canticle of Canticles 2:4 ordinavit in me caritatem ( he set in order charity in me ) distils imaginatively Hilton 's understanding that love can only be properly expressed through a disciplined orientation of the particular gifts and powers of the self to God . |
| 9 | Now , in a very real sense socialisation can only be properly understood as an aspect of all activity within human societies . |
| 10 | But the significance of the political and religious events of the mid sixteenth century , and in particular Mary 's part in shaping them , can only be properly understood in the context of the traditional political and social patterns which had created the sixteenth-century Scottish kingdom . |
| 11 | It is that such questions can only be properly pursued in the company of the disciplinary studies . |
| 12 | The next heart-stopping moment can only be properly described in the jockey 's own words : |
| 13 | The cream need only be lightly massaged with the finger tips either once or twice a day and the manufacturers stress that you do not have to knead or use a special applicator . |
| 14 | As a safety feature , the rocker need only be lightly touched on the back section to cut the motor . |
| 15 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |
| 16 | No gimmicks , either , so Ampeg 's reputation can only be further enhanced by the B-1/B-1R . |
| 17 | The total number of patients who had stool samples analysed could only be accurately assessed in the one year period ( 1989 ) when records were computerised . |
| 18 | We would only be then left with the er Regional Reports . |
| 19 | Women who have organized around their specific demands all support the political opposition arguing that their oppression as women can only be substantially altered with the overthrow of the present regime . |
| 20 | We propose that this daunting list of stages , each of which calls for different information skills , can only be satisfactorily incorporated in the school 's programme by a curriculum policy built around these skills . |
| 21 | These underlying questions can only be fully studied in a situation where the curriculum is of the type recommended by Cockcroft , and a graduated assessment scheme is in operation . |
| 22 | The reason why I run culture and ideology together to identify the institutionalization of consumerism is that consumerism in the global system can only be fully understood as a cultural-ideological practice . |
| 23 | The impact of the Thatcher years can only be fully assessed in the future . |
| 24 | The Exquisite Fairy Wrasse possesses a beauty which may only be fully appreciated in the living fish . |