Example sentences of "[vb -s] only [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from being a conclusion of the ‘ consumer-led ’ revolution beloved of propagandists , the change is the child of a retail revolution which , for the consumer , constitutes only a re-arrangement of his or her individual powerlessness . ’ |
| 2 | Unfortunately this constitutes only the assessment of a candidate 's suitability for entry to an interpreters ' qualifying course . |
| 3 | Thus , in the top tenth of pensioner income groups , social security contributes only a quarter of gross income . |
| 4 | This obviously represents only a proportion of criminal activity in Britain since a number of crimes remain undetected and a number of offenders are not convicted . |
| 5 | On the other hand , once estimated , the known user total still represents only a proportion of the total user population and , thus , a multiplier factor is needed , that is to say , a ratio of unknown to known heroin use , in order to determine the size of the total heroin user population ( Hartnoll et al. |
| 6 | Second , the greater profitability of restaurants and garages along an upgraded road should not be included , as this is simply a reflection of more journeys undertaken along this route and represents only a transfer of business from other establishments on less popular routes . |
| 7 | Wilson points out that the designer side represents only a fraction of the fashion industry 's £6.5 billion turnover . |
| 8 | The fundamental argument is again that human beings are still very ‘ basic ’ beings ; that is , they have evolved over millions of years and that what we call civilisation or culture represents only a fraction of human history . |
| 9 | To that extent , modernization represents only a potential for development , not necessarily an actual development ; indeed , form itself , in its stability , may challenge the continuum of lived experience ( Arato 1974 : 158 ; compare Giddens on routinization 1984 : 61 ) . |
| 10 | In the current financial year budgets what authorities would have spend in delivering services , not what the Welsh office consider they should spend , were two thousand six hundred and eighty eight million pounds and against that the next years settlement which we 're debating tonight , represents only a point six percent increase . |
| 11 | However it seems that the slowest time constant represents only a subset of the GC sites since we observe dissociation from some GC sites at rates closer to the faster species . |
| 12 | However , revolutionary technological innovation represents only the tip of the iceberg . |
| 13 | This figure represents only the tip of the iceberg , since as many as 90% of cases go unreported , according to Dr Richard Gilbert , the Director of the Food Hygiene Laboratory . |
| 14 | When this is the case , a trap is to mistake such an event for the completion of the entire change effort ; instead , it represents only the beginning of the change-management process . |
| 15 | AMD offers only an entry level design tool — a personal computer-based system called Palasm — preferring to concentrate its efforts on chip design . |
| 16 | Style offers only an illusion of democracy , an illusion , indeed , that in a capitalist society is a necessary part of the leisure process . |
| 17 | Orwell in his notes offers only the ghost of an answer when he remarks that Waugh 's loyalty was to a form of society no longer viable , ‘ of which he must be aware ’ . |
| 18 | Their deteriorating physical and mental health offers only the prospect of further decline and the ultimate sentence of old age — death . |
| 19 | Today the inner enclosure should still be the climax of the fort , but the sight of it produces only a sensation of severe anticlimax . |
| 20 | The farmworker receives only a pittance in pay-off — perhaps £2,000 in redundancy pay — whereas the owner of the land may receive thousands of pounds for several years . |
| 21 | One important question in this area awaits a final answer : if , on its proper construction , the statutory authority exempts the undertaker from Rylands v. Fletcher liability and imposes only an obligation to use due care , upon whom does the burden of proof lie ? |
| 22 | Where the groups are of similar social and economic level with no particular dislike for each other , the supplanting of one group by another usually involves only a minimum of friction . |
| 23 | Trading involves only a handful of traders who make the markets and a relatively closed universe of institutional investors . |
| 24 | A second dimension to real co-ordination involves only the donors , whose policies outside the aid arena may conflict with those within it . |
| 25 | The principle does not , however , apply if the sanction involves only the institution of legal proceedings for the recovery of the money and penalties . |
| 26 | Any help which tackles only the surface expression of the doubt lacks compassion and is bound to fail . |
| 27 | Thus this paper supplies only a part of the substantiation which the foregoing analysis requires . |
| 28 | And Thucydides describes no sharper conflict than that between the aggressive Spartan Sthenelaidas ( i.86 ) and the more cautious King Archidamus ; for the supposedly more ‘ open ’ society of Athens he records only the views of Pericles and an anonymous delegation which does not contradict him . |
| 29 | He pees only every couple of days . |
| 30 | In order to be elected , a constituency candidate needs only a plurality of the votes cast . |