Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From January 1983 , married women will have the right to apply for Family Income Supplement ( a means-tested supplement for low wage-earners with children which currently specifies that only the husband in a married couple may apply ) and , provided the couple agree that she has been and is the main breadwinner , a married woman may then apply for means-tested supplementary benefit . |
| 2 | Murphy 's Law , naturally , decrees that only the important , urgent or totally trivial jobs will get into difficulties and it is here that the bureau can really play its part . |
| 3 | The Publisher further agrees that only the Author will be credited on the video cassette box |
| 4 | The Publisher further agrees that only the Author will be credited on the video cassette box |
| 5 | It happens that only the last of these verb phrases is standard English . |
| 6 | Hong Kong says that only a handful of them should qualify as true refugees fleeing persecution , while the rest are ‘ economic migrants ’ escaping the pitiful poverty of their home country . |
| 7 | In a courtly song Bertrand says that only the beauty of the Duchess Matilda prevented him from dying of boredom ; her naked body would make night seem like day . |
| 8 | ( 1986 ) shows that only an estimated 6 per cent of such offences were reported to the police . |
| 9 | When we question the actual extent of lifetime employment it is not surprising to find that a fluid labour market requires that only a quarter of employees can expect such guarantees . |
| 10 | But the actual letter survives and only a mind predisposed to suspect the sender could think it pompous : ‘ After the most careful consideration I have decided , if you are willing that I should do so , to recommend your name for the succession to the see of Durham . ’ |
| 11 | For the authorities , it ensures that only a relatively sanitized version of events gets out ; for the authors , it means that they do not have to perjure themselves , and has the additional benefit that the gaps — and consequently the restraints under which they have had to work — are obvious to their readers . |
| 12 | It seems that only the modern Labour party is opposed to competition . |
| 13 | The proposal dictates that only the most severely disabled drivers would be allowed to drive down Skinnergate and High Row between 10.30am and 4pm . |
| 14 | One hopes that only the first group will inherit the earth . |
| 15 | Deep down , though , Eubank suspects that only the loss of his bitter enemy 's title during his next three fights could galvanise him into a repeat of their epic of two years ago — and commercially that would devalue the rematch . |
| 16 | In the family proceedings court s69(1) of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 stipulates that only the following may be present : ( i ) officers of the court ; ( ii ) the parties , their solicitors and counsel , witnesses and others directly concerned in the case ; ( iii ) representatives of the press ; ( iv ) any person given permission by the court , eg trainee social workers , researchers etc . |
| 17 | Many dreams are so bizarre that they seem inexplicable and it follows that only a medically qualified expert could penetrate the machinations of the subconscious mind which produced them . |
| 18 | The general nature of the Part XV code indicates that only an individual ( as opposed to a corporate body ) can be a settlor . |
| 19 | The view of the Pleiades is much more breathtaking with my 7 × 50 binoculars than with the lowest power I can use on my large reflector , because the small field of view with the telescope means that only a small part of the cluster can be seen at any one time . |
| 20 | Using radiocarbon dating by accelerator mass spectrometry , which requires much less material , means that only a tiny amount of the charcoal underdrawing is required for an accurate dating to be obtained . |
| 21 | All of this means that only a small fraction of all T cells will respond to any given antigen ( see figure , top ) . |
| 22 | This means that only a third who were found to have breast cancer would have been detected by breast screening . |
| 23 | This means that only the 20,000 readers of British Standards Institution publications hear about them : so much for public comment . |
| 24 | We are running this in the off season , which means that only the Park Department is running motorized rigs and that there are only 25 launches a day . |
| 25 | Document signed … ’ means that only the signature itself is the hand of the king . |
| 26 | Thirdly , the competitive nature of capitalism means that only the largest and most wealthy companies will survive and prosper . |
| 27 | This effectively means that only the largest building societies , those with assets of 100m or more , can effectively compete . |
| 28 | Also , this electronic method of cooking means that only the pan is heated , and the moment it is removed from the hob , energy consumption stops . |
| 29 | When I registered her death I was surprised to find myself giving this as her trade , because learned history implies that only the traditional ones — tailoring , weaving , joining , welding — are real . |
| 30 | Milner implies that only the development of modern ( structuralist ) linguistics has made this possible , and certainly the work of Hockett ( 1977 ) , Milner himself , Nash ( 1985 ) and now Chiaro ( who draws quite heavily on Hockett ) provides detailed linguistic and structural analyses of the different kinds of word- and sound-play that are exploited in jokes . |