Example sentences of "[noun] only [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buyer only becomes the legal owner of registered land when the transfer is received by the Land Registry ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 2 | A bus stop just before the zebra crossing only confuses the issue further . |
| 3 | For instance , although he borrows the concept of mood from linguistics , he recognizes from the outset that , in contrast to ordinary language , narrative only knows the indicative mood ( there is no imperative or subjunctive forms of narrative ) , and that if his use of the term is to have any value at all it must be ‘ stretched ’ and given a metaphorical function . |
| 4 | Life is where girls are murdered ‘ with a gallon of lysol in a bath , , and where the tedious business of words only elicits the answer that there is no point to speech . |
| 5 | Confrontation only creates the possibility for drama when it raises the possibility of change . |
| 6 | However , such friendship only opens the door ; thereafter the hard reality of the benefits to be gained and the risks to be run will take over . |
| 7 | Equity only protects the bona fide purchaser for value of a legal estate and so the rule should be of no application . |
| 8 | Although product X is ranked before product Y the optimum mix only includes the manufacture of 1,000 units of X , this is because the minimum quantity of Y that must be sold is 800 units . |
| 9 | Anna Adams had no illusions about the decline of Scarp , ‘ When the artists move in on a way of life , that way of life is picturesquely anachronistic and in decay ’ , but it seems that a taste for tragedy only augments the awareness of beauty . |
| 10 | Anna Adams had no illusions about the decline of Scarp , ‘ When the artists move in on a way of life , that way of life is picturesquely anachronistic and in decay ’ , but it seems that a taste for tragedy only augments the awareness of beauty . |
| 11 | Note , however , that if the slack only takes the form of paying out some of the monopoly rents as higher remuneration to factors of production , then there is no efficiency loss implied . |
| 12 | The result is that the club only hits the top half of the ball sending it through the green illustration below ) . |
| 13 | Of course , the law only recognizes the patient 's right to self-determination in circumstances in which the patient is both legally competent ( that is , not unconscious or a young child ) and sufficiently lucid to comprehend what he is doing . |
| 14 | In such circumstance staff may strike out but — it must be stressed — only in self-defence ; the law only sanctions the use of reasonable force for self-defence . |
| 15 | The act only gives the powers to enable new dwellings to be fitted with adequate means of smoke detection ; it does not give any technical provisions about the necessary standards that will be required . |
| 16 | Discovery then leads to a loss of self , not a confirmation of identity , and Slothrop 's fate only represents the characteristic direction of thy forces operating within the novel : to reduce human beings to ciphers , units , or commercial entities . |
| 17 | Action : This version of the file should be purged since Directory Integrity Check only compares the latest version |
| 18 | As each hole in the glass joins to the next , water movement is claimed to be self-perpetuating but oxygen only reaches the outer surfaces . |
| 19 | The circuit only sends the motor an impulse when the sensor 's output is different from the required setting . |
| 20 | The variability was expected as the degree of relationship between two individuals only indicates the probability that the two share heritable characters . |
| 21 | Do you consider that the inspector is right to assess emoluments on the director , and if so is it correct to charge emoluments for the whole year when the director only uses the property for a few weekends in each year ? |
| 22 | If a business only exceeds the threshold for arrivals of goods and not despatches , then SSDs are only completed for arrivals ; similarly , if the threshold is only breached for goods despatched , then SSDs only need to be completed for despatches . |
| 23 | The recent decision by the French Government to give in to their farmers on the lamb war only underlines the position . |
| 24 | Before speaking to her he has pondered the question of committing suicide to absolve himself from the responsibility of avenging his father ; and Ophelia 's behaviour only emphasises the apparent pointlessness of trying to oppose Claudius , who could easily destroy him . |
| 25 | As such a facility only permits the replacement of the commercial paper with new indebtedness rather than its extension , the FRED would require the paper to be shown as a short-term liability . |
| 26 | The Farm represent everything utterly obnoxious about this country , probably not their fault as they never had a decent education , but glorifying football thuggery , provincial mediocrity and small-minded plebbiness only encourages the pettiness of our current society . |
| 27 | There is of course the argument about the maintenance of the countryside and that the countryside only looks the way it does , because of the fox hunting . |
| 28 | Censorship only exposes the offending article to a greater public . |
| 29 | Censorship only exposes the offending article to a greater public . |
| 30 | The myth about shaving probably comes from the fact that this method only removes the hairs at the skin surface rather than below it — so that it grows back sooner ( not faster ) . |