Example sentences of "[vb base] only [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As early as 1917 Roxburgh demonstrated that many municipal legal systems had developed devices to avoid the restrictions and inconveniences caused by a rigid adherence to the analogous rule that contracts bind only parties to them , a process that continues . |
| 2 | I want only children in my kingdom . |
| 3 | I can see how those faded images might suggest sultry nights of Mediterranean passion even if to me they now evoke only memories of sunburn and Retsina hangovers . |
| 4 | Uniformed police and plainclothes detectives were also present in even greater numbers than had originally been planned after an elaborate bomb hoax only hours before the funeral . |
| 5 | Some scholars are uneasy about this interpretation because the sign-groups give only approximations of words and can therefore be made into several different words : the sign-group ‘ po-lo ’ , for example , can be made to mean as many as eight different Greek words . |
| 6 | Similarly , it has been assumed that voters consider only alternatives in a small neighbourhood of the current position . |
| 7 | It is uncanny how many bites I get only seconds after casting or immediately following the bait being twitched along the bottom . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most difficult problem to be coped with ( apart from grammar and syntax which are quite outside the scope of this book ) is that of semantic shift — the new meanings which Classical words acquired in medieval times , sometimes making them unintelligible to readers who remember only fragments of the language from their schooldays . |
| 9 | ( It is harder to see why γ should help α to resist a challenge by Β ) If the alternative strategies are ‘ resist only challenges to oneself , and ‘ resist any challenge ’ , the latter would be favoured by selection provided that it was usually advantageous . |
| 10 | If you do not only frown on smoking but hire only non-smokers from now on you can , he maintains , save $5000 a year per smoker in the long run . |
| 11 | We observe only outcomes of what we presume is the exercise of power , and are forced into conjecturing what would have occurred if power had not been exercised . |
| 12 | The biggest difference one sees in practice is that in America permanence placement units employ workers who are specialists at working with natural families , whereas in this country , as far as I know , the units employ only specialists in adoption and fostering . |
| 13 | New books which Prestel only issues in English include Picasso and Braque , the collected contributions to the symposium held in 1990 during the exhibition of the same title at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ( DM68 ) , and Josef Hoffmann-Designs , a monograph on the great Viennese designer ( 1870 to 1956 ) , published to coincide with the exhibition at the IBM Gallery , New York ( DM68 ; exhibition until 23 January ) . |
| 14 | US VISAS ARE no longer compulsory here but Florida authorities admit only visitors in possession of a valid 25-yard swimming certificate . |
| 15 | I 've only spirits in the house , and wine . |
| 16 | They buy only records on import from Outer Mongolia and stop playing them as soon as everyone else does ; they refuse to watch films without foreign subtitles , never read hardbacks , and will not enter a club if the general public can also get in . |
| 17 | Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton . |
| 18 | True enough , we have only fragments of his history ; but it can not be by chance that while the Greek side of his tale is full of internal conflicts , the story of Italy is miraculously free of them . |