Example sentences of "[noun pl] only [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They contain endlessly frustrated plantation slaves who are rebellious at assessments and in encounters with professionals , but whose views only reach daylight in fragmented and unvalidated form ; and they contain house slaves who agree with everything that goes on and use ‘ massa 's ’ language and concepts , but who believe something else all the time and are waiting for the day . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The hand-over of those objects only took place after Iraq had lodged a complaint with the United Nations . |
| 4 | ‘ Previous reports on diet and health have told us we need to eat fruit and vegetables only to provide roughage , ’ says Professor James . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If the debt is unpaid at maturity the bank will in most cases only seek recourse to the exporter if non-payment is due to a contractual dispute . |
| 7 | However , these reactions only take place because of the presence of manufactured chlorine in the stratosphere . |
| 8 | Coleridge lived in London , and never returned to the North of England , so that meetings only took place on rare occasions . |
| 9 | The ‘ non-demographic ’ ( NDM ) projections only take account of expected trends in crime and the numbers sent to prison ; the ‘ demographic ’ ( DM ) projections also take into account expected changes in the age structure of the general population . |
| 10 | Leonora Carrington , Leonor Fini and Meret Oppenehiem are amongst the many whose development as serious artists only took place outside Surrealism . |
| 11 | Such policies only make sense to the corporate investors and stem from the perceived need to avoid integrating the industry in any but the core capitalist countries . |
| 12 | For example , if mutations reduce adult survival 16 times more than they reduce juvenile survival ( that is , v= 16 ) , a net mutation rate reduces juvenile and adult survival from their optimal values ( 0.945 , 0.505 ) to ( 0.866 , 0.155 ) ; if the mutations only affected adult survival , a mutation rate U 0.067 would reduce adult survival to zero . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Threadworms only affect humans , they do not affect pets . |
| 15 | 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 ! ) . |
| 16 | I am aware that these proposals only go part way to meeting the objections raised at the meeting . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Words only represented reality . |
| 19 | Like phonemes themselves , words only have significance in relation to other words and as part of a total system of classification . |
| 20 | Thirdly , when comparing actual against target performance , most organizations only require action to be taken when the deviation against standards is significant . |
| 21 | Earlier Frankish successions from the sixth century onwards had divided the heartlands , the patrimony , between royal brothers as well as assigning whatever acquired regna were available : the 806 and 817 projects , by contrast , gave the first-born son the patrimony entire , leaving the younger brothers only acquired regna . |
| 22 | Indeed , real values of these variables only cover part of the interaction region as will be clarified later . |
| 23 | It is easy to forget that the Lutyens team of craftsmen only had access to traditional methods and materials . |
| 24 | However , these increasingly centralized and expensive units only enforce control over a very narrow range of public or ‘ street visible ’ acts of social disorder . |
| 25 | Some of these challenges are entirely technical but others are conceptual , stemming from the fact that most methods only make sense if one makes certain assumptions about the brain which may , or may not , be valid . |
| 26 | ‘ I opened his eyes all right and now those eyes only see Maria Luisa . ’ |
| 27 | Regan ( 1977 ) complains about the lack of statistics on their background but says there are still some subject areas where inspectors only have experience of grammar and independent schools . |
| 28 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 29 | These procedures address the current problem of designers only having access to either none or all of the data for a CAD part , by introducing strict partitioning within each CAD part file . |
| 30 | While they chased the business of a few gambling councils , some City lawyers were already arguing that councils could enter into swaps only to hedge interest-rate payments on normal borrowings . |