Example sentences of "[to-vb] only the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is a heavily biased reading of Dame Sirith to see only the antifeminist direction and to ignore the unfavourable reflections upon Wilekin 's base attitude and desires . |
| 2 | In Wagner himself , at all events , he continued to see only the image that Wagner wished to project : an " idealistic cast of mind " , an " incredible seriousness and German depth " in his view of life and art , an epitome of " our German mission " in every way . |
| 3 | But the Scanachrome process introduces a linear scanning over the whole image , so I proposed to paint only the area of the TV screen and leave the scanning on everything that is n't TV . |
| 4 | For example , the psychological dilemmas of women 's two roles discussed in the late 1950s by Myrdal and Klein are said by them to affect only the minority of educated middle-class women . |
| 5 | If one relates this position to citation studies in the humanities which show that well over 50% of books cited have imprint dates up to 35 years ago and earlier , the increasing tendency to search only the OPAC , and ignore the card catalogue is doing a major disservice to scholars and their potential exploitation of the resources of research libraries . |
| 6 | Initially they had a duty to promote only the welfare of the blind but from 1951 they had power to promote the welfare of the deaf and of the general classes of the physically handicapped . |
| 7 | Book seems to contain only the following : |
| 8 | And to accept only the minimum of information necessary for you to complete the task ’ . |
| 9 | In the hour before dawn , when the islanders ' forces knew that the raid on the Rebecca had started , they rose and advanced against the Belmont stockade , thinking to find only the skeleton watch Kit posted nightly and everyone else in their beds . |
| 10 | The nurse should therefore attempt to communicate only the information necessary for the patient to manage say , the next 24 hours . |
| 11 | The CD laser stylus is designed to detect only the presence or absence of a pit . |
| 12 | He opened the door , allowing it to reach only the length of the chain . |
| 13 | So far , however , the crofters in the Western Isles have preferred to purchase only the house sites and pass on their rights to their families , although in other areas where the land is better there has been greater interest in purchasing whole crofts . |
| 14 | Manufacturers tend to state only the input wattage especially on mains powered tools , but it is the power at the cutting edge that counts . |
| 15 | Er about this strike and er but time went on and it became obvious that er nobody were going to win only the boss like this boss , course he was he was scratching through , and so they called the strike off and every person who worked at er every firm had a meeting and they all decided to take so many and every firm took so many of the workers and so nobody was ever unemployed as a consequence of the strike which was very very good . |
| 16 | To ensure that subscribers can make the most cost-effective use of its information resource , Infolink has developed a flexible enquiry service to allow subscribers to select only the information which is relevant to their particular needs . |
| 17 | He has triumphed by attacking a system that sucks the marrow from the body of the industry to leave only the flab and gristle of tired ideas . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) If the case is reported in the Law Reports it may be thought sufficient to cite only the Law Reports ; but if it is not in the Law Reports the main ‘ collateral ’ reports should be cited in which the case appears . |
| 19 | Note here the contrast between closed- and open.loop control schemes ; with open-loop control the downcounter is able to record only the number of step commands sent to the motor and there is no guarantee that these steps have been executed . |
| 20 | If you can arrange for an automatic ballcock top-up into the filter chamber and pressure bungs on the inlet(s) to the pond , then it is possible to fill only the filter with water , suck it through the Eradicator , into the sand filter and so into the pool . |
| 21 | For people with trouble controlling their hand movements , special key guards allow them to press only the key they want . |
| 22 | Address it to either Mrs Edward Black ( it is traditional to use only the wife 's name ) or to Mr and Mrs Edward Black . |
| 23 | It is common practice to use only the information on benefits and earnings when the information on other sources of income is unavailable . |
| 24 | In Seager v Copydex Ltd [ 1967 ] 1 WLR 923 it was adopted by Lord Denning MR who added the following point concerning the difficulties which arise where part of the information disclosed to the defendant is only partly within the public domain : When the information is mixed , being partly public and partly private , then the recipient must take special care to use only the material which is in the public domain . |
| 25 | The brief of the Project will be to study only the feasibility of wiring up Chung Kuo 's population . |
| 26 | On Sunday , he attended Sunday school twice and church service twice and during the remainder of the day was allowed to read only the Bible and Children 's Encyclopedia . |
| 27 | Subsequent reports on Oct. 1 said that the head of the UN-IAEA commission on Iraq [ see pp. 38165 ; 38211 ] , Rolf Ekeus , had " firmly instructed " the team to brief only the commission or the IAEA , after it emerged that Kay had passed information directly to the US administration while held in Baghdad . |
| 28 | ( 1 ) Heparin-bovine serum albumin(BSA) conjugate ( a model proteoglycan ) and VCAM-1 ( an endothelial ligand for VLA-4 ) were co-immobilized on plastic ; ( 2 ) MIP-1 β was added and then washed out to assess only the effect of immobilized cytokine ; and ( 3 ) we assayed binding of resting CD8 + T cells to all eight combinations of the three components : integrin ligand , proteoglycan and cytokine ( Fig. 2 a ) . |
| 29 | Therefore a decision was taken to investigate only the scanning undertaken by corporate planning departments and deliberately to exclude the business divisions and the chief executive . |
| 30 | More seriously , two other possibilities are to knit only the front of the garment in the pattern and the back and sleeves in stocking stitch , or in the case of this pattern , perhaps in stripes of pattern based on stitches 12 and 13 of the pattern . |