Example sentences of "[vb base] only in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All creatures communicate only in the manner to which they are instinctively and inwardly programmed . |
| 2 | They must be taught through benevolence and sympathy ; when the necessity arises shame may be used , but fear only in the last extremity , and then ‘ with such delicacy that if possible the habit may not gather strength by the use you are constrained to make of it ’ . |
| 3 | Seymour committed suicide on 20 Apr. 1836 ; his illustrations appear only in the first two parts of PP ( Apr. , May 1836 ) . |
| 4 | Sugars also attach to proteins to form ‘ glycoproteins ’ , and it now seems that most proteins function only in the form of glycoprotein . |
| 5 | Book-destroyers of this kind , especially when they blatantly advertise their wares as suitable for breaking and framing for an inn , a billiard room or boudoir , act only in the cause of financial gain and have no respect for the qualities to be found in a complete book . |
| 6 | Since it is not involved in the management of the company it is in a position to monitor and check the performance of the executives actually managing the company , to ensure that they act only in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 7 | The causes of the problem of soil erosion lie only in the actual place in which the physical symptoms are felt . |
| 8 | In the aftermath of the Maria Colwell tragedy a report by the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work took this concept as its title and stated that ‘ good enough parenting involves , among other things , a capacity to provide continuity of love and care which is realistic in its expectations of both parent and child and deals with ‘ real ’ conflicts of interests and not those whose origins lie only in the parents ' past' ( CCETSW , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | However , the MacSharry proposals look only in the most narrow , blinkered way for solutions . |
| 10 | The adult males and females live alone and meet only in the breeding season . |
| 11 | Those who believe that they believe in God , but without any passion in their heart , any anguish of mind , without uncertainty , without doubt , without an element of despair even in their consolation , believe only in the God-idea , not in God . |
| 12 | It 's really I suppose only in the y'know nineteenth century that the perspective starts to shift , the perspective starts to shift towards understanding rape as a crime of violence . |
| 13 | This effectively gives a much smaller ‘ weight ’ to reference resolution than to other parts of the system ; two interpretations that differ only in the referents they assign to anaphors will be much closer together in the sequence of structures presented to the plausibility checker than two interpretations that differ only in some other respect , such as an alternation of word senses . |
| 14 | Such patients often differ only in the time taken to reach hospital , and to claim that they differ in any more fundamental way is pure sophistry . |
| 15 | In fact , they share assumptions and limitations in common with the theories they reject , and differ only in the way in which they assess the worth of British democracy in the context of changed economic circumstances . |
| 16 | It must be remembered that these remarks apply only in the case of the small orchestra , in which string and wind doubling is rarely necessary for the sake of balance . |
| 17 | Both section 6 and the common law rule making contracts void apply only in the absence of any agreement of the parties to the contrary . |
| 18 | If these information-processing modules exist only in the minds of cognitive scientists , rather than in the minds of the subjects they study , then breakdowns in face recognition or word recognition should either be all-or-none , or else they should be extremely difficult to conceptualize within the vocabulary of cognitive psychology . |
| 19 | What he has done , he explains , is to combine the belief of his philosophical predecessors that ‘ the things immediately perceived , are ideas which exist only in the mind ’ with the common-sense belief that ‘ those things … [ we ] immediately perceive are the real things ’ ; and these two , put together ‘ do in effect constitute the substance of what I advance ’ . |
| 20 | The trouble with this is that the viewer , to whom the sea appears to be uniformly blue in the sense of ‘ appears ’ in question , may , in fact , think that the sea merely reflects the colour of the sky , or even that colours exist only in the mind . |
| 21 | Why does this theory come to life while other theories exist only in the minds of their inventors ? |
| 22 | THE grandfather continues : ‘ I think only in the short term . |
| 23 | In the realms of Men , for example , Orcs live only in the wildernesses , deep in the forests or high in the mountains . |
| 24 | Some animals live only in the pitchers , others ( a minority ) are also found living elsewhere . |
| 25 | Moon rats , or gymnures , occur only in the oriental region . |
| 26 | Of 149 respondents , 18 subjects agreed firmly with the statement that " Dreams occur only in the few moments before you wake up " , and a further 23 thought this was perhaps true . |
| 27 | In the Hull survey one of the statements to which respondents were invited to agree was " Dreams occur only in the few moments before you wake up " ; 18 endorsed this statement , and 23 thought it was maybe true , out of 149 . |
| 28 | A further point to note is that the extreme left-hand columns in both table 6.4 and table 6.5 are empty and additionally the extreme right-hand column in table 6.5 is empty ; this is because these ‘ extreme ’ realizations occur only in the inner-city areas . |
| 29 | Nightingales sing only in the dark . |