Example sentences of "[noun pl] only [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alliance is cemented by that traditional political religion , forged in the previous century , which sees the natural law as most accessible to true believers , that it is obligatory to enforce its practice by law , and that those holding other views only have rights to put their views into practice when they are not seen by the bishops to do harm to the social fabric . |
| 2 | In practice , however , failures are often forestalled by governments that fear systemic contagion from the collapse of credit institutions ; and the authorities only allow mergers between big firms where they are convinced that competition will not suffer . |
| 3 | The story can , of course , be extended to include ligatures — they are the double letter combinations such as fi , ff , fl , etc but as most PostScript fonts only support fi ( Option Shift 5 ) and fl ( Option Shift 6 ) this may be a little picky . |
| 4 | Threadworms only affect humans , they do not affect pets . |
| 5 | So many dog training clubs only take dogs when they are six months old … well past the steep part of the learning curve and often at an age when male dogs , especially , are starting to grow up ( and become as rebellious and resistant to authority as any human adolescent ! ) . |
| 6 | But a curious deterrence this , which aims to restrain states only to unleash peoples , to intensify rather than mitigate conflict and make the world safe for revolution rather than order . |
| 7 | If you have reservations only accept orders on the basis of cash on delivery . |
| 8 | Fly-by-night workshops only get contracts if they are prepared to do the work very cheaply . |
| 9 | In his account of the conference Armstrong ( secretary of the Chemical Society ) noted that participants only received copies of the report on the first morning of the meeting ( 19 April 1892 ) . |
| 10 | The Transfer Regulations only protect employees and not independent contractors . |
| 11 | The defendant who was employed as the manager of a bookmakers only met customers once ( if at all ) as most business was done by telephone and was of a credit nature . |
| 12 | Once again a similar argument exists in administrative law-namely that the function of judicial review is to ensure that public bodies only take decisions which are within the scope of their expertise . |
| 13 | Valid identities between tensors only connect tensors with equal numbers of subscripts and equal numbers of superscripts ( the same rank ) . |
| 14 | For example , it is argued that boys in initiation receive esoteric privileged knowledge , but girls only suffer prohibitions and restrictions at puberty ( see Bamberger 1974 : 277 ; Ortner 1974 : 69 ) . |
| 15 | Again , sentences only express propositions by virtue of specific contexts and a specific encoder within a deictic field . |
| 16 | Lastly some art societies only accept pictures for exhibition not less than 10×8 in . |
| 17 | Selkirk pushed him in and made him squat on a stone ledge while he cut free his bound hands only to fasten gyves to his wrists and ankles ; attached by chains to the wall ; these allowed Corbett to move but quickly chafed his wrists and ankles . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | Nobody wants to fight and the police only make arrests if we telephone them ourselves to report trouble . |
| 20 | Mr Smedley was involved in an argument early on Saturday morning although police only released details of the incident yesterday . |
| 21 | Brown Men only eat nuts , berries and apples , and use their bows and arrows to chase hunters away from innocent game . |
| 22 | Some committees refuse to allow non-agenda items , while others only allow matters notified to the Chair before the meeting . |
| 23 | The holdalls only contained towels , shampoo and the ‘ action footwear ’ we 'd bought yesterday . |
| 24 | The Cornwall Umpires Association says MCC laws only allow runners if a player is injured during a game . |