Example sentences of "[vb base] only [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main point to understand is that the diet is flexible , but you must : stick to 1,000 calories per day ( unless you have chosen to increase your calorie allowance ) eat only the foods allowable in the stage you are currently on . |
| 2 | Inserts , in the generally accepted sense of the word , change only the pictures , the original sound continuing over it unaffected . |
| 3 | By section 27(9) of the Act the ‘ qualification regulations ’ of an ‘ authorised body , ’ which the Advisory Committee has the duty to approve , mean only the regulations ( however they may be described ) as to the education and training which members of that body must receive in order to be entitled to any right of audience granted by it ; and in the same way ‘ rules of conduct , ’ which it has a duty to approve , mean only the rules ( however they may be described ) as to the conduct required of members of that body in exercising any such right of audience . |
| 4 | By section 27(9) of the Act the ‘ qualification regulations ’ of an ‘ authorised body , ’ which the Advisory Committee has the duty to approve , mean only the regulations ( however they may be described ) as to the education and training which members of that body must receive in order to be entitled to any right of audience granted by it ; and in the same way ‘ rules of conduct , ’ which it has a duty to approve , mean only the rules ( however they may be described ) as to the conduct required of members of that body in exercising any such right of audience . |
| 5 | So most certificates distinguish only the clergy , as was required , and the gentry were bound to be noticed as landowners and the lords of many other men . |
| 6 | Place only the fingertips on the shoulder blade . |
| 7 | Replant only the ones with with healthy roots and strong fan of leaves . |
| 8 | Of course , if schoolchildren are to use the library effectively they must know how it operates , how it is administered and how it is organized , but these arc only the preliminaries . |
| 9 | Although Gumperz bases his analyses on transcriptions of actual conversation , his examples consisting of " illustrative brief exchanges , just long enough to provide a basis for context bound interpretation " ( 1982 : 75 ) show only the stretches of speech containing the code-switched utterances themselves , and omit specifications of pauses , laughter , other parties ' contributions which overlap with the current speakers " and other details which are considered potentially important by conversation analysts . |
| 10 | Plots a and c show only the curves for . |
| 11 | The idea is that there is little value to a manager of a set of monthly accounts which record only the invoices received or invoices paid . |
| 12 | Now imagine the same boundary maintained under the same forces and displacements not by the real continuum but by an arbitrary network of " finite elements ' in each of which we consider only the forces and displacements at their junctions , or " nodes ' . |
| 13 | Now I remember only the hairs |
| 14 | The development of a number of root definitions and associated models will be enlightening ; however , if time is a constraint then it may be necessary to be more selective and pursue only the viewpoints that are most relevant , such as those of the main client or other influential persons , ie people whose agreement may be needed before changes can be implemented . |
| 15 | Montag is astonished to find that they too burn books , however they destroy only the cases which contain the words , the ideas can never be destroyed while they live on inside the people , to be written out once more to give joy after the ‘ Dark Age ’ has passed . |
| 16 | Some organisations interview all candidates ' wives early in the selection process ; others invite only the wives of short-listed candidates into interview ; a few feel it unreasonable to call into question the intentions of potential expatriates ' wives . |
| 17 | Nothing can prevent people from saying that the answers he gave were not ‘ adult or ‘ fundamental ’ , but it should be obvious that such adjectives are as culture biased as Saruman 's ‘ real ’ : by themselves they express only the prejudices of the user . |
| 18 | For it follows from this distinction that we see only the appearances of things , images of them in our minds , not the things themselves , ‘ so that , for aught we know , all we see , hear , and feel , may be only phantom and vain chimera , and not at all agree with the real things ’ . |
| 19 | We see only the descendants of successful DNA changes . |
| 20 | Outwardly , we see only the effects , the image on the screen , of this vast sea of Mind . |
| 21 | With our eyes we see only the eyes of the others there . |
| 22 | The analogizing of knowing to seeing may pervade the concrete experience of coming to know , in the mystic 's vision flooded with light ; or it may be explicit in parable , as in Plato 's of mankind misled by illusory appearance as prisoners in a cave who see only the shadows on the wall . |
| 23 | And , of course , you buy only the weeks you want to use at a fraction of the cost of buying the whole property , with all the facilities of the first class Hotel and Country Club at your disposal … |
| 24 | Against the shuffling columns , they have only the weapons of abuse and loathing . |
| 25 | They can , however , still be distinguished from organized political formations such as parties which are directly engaged in the struggle for power in the sense of seeking to retain or capture the government of some political unit , by the fact that social movements act in a more diffuse way and if they are successful establish only the preconditions for changes of policy or regime by bringing into question the legitimacy of the existing political system ( in part or in whole ) , creating a different climate of opinion , and proposing alternatives . |
| 26 | Bat droppings are tiny , and comprise only the wings and hard parts of the insects which bats eat . |