Example sentences of "[vb -s] only [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with the modern partnership , no very satisfactory solution to this problem has been found , and the most one can say is that the partners have an equitable interest , often described as a lien , which floats over the partnership assets throughout the duration of the firm , although it crystallises only on dissolution . |
| 2 | In this country , the Economic and Social Research Council frequently awards research grants only on condition that data collected will be deposited in the Council 's archive together with a full description of the material and any known deficiencies . |
| 3 | For Ohmann , style belongs only to level ( B ) , whereas for Halliday style can be located in ( A ) , ( B ) , and ( C ) . |
| 4 | The SPF system refers only to protection from UVB rays , but this year a star rating system has been introduced which also categorizes sun products according to their UVA protection . |
| 5 | ( The phrase ‘ suitable applicants ’ refers only to ability and motivation . ) |
| 6 | For example , G above refers only to government consumption expenditure rather than all government expenditure , which would also include spending on fixed assets ; this item is in fact included under gross domestic fixed capital formation . |
| 7 | It refers only to university graduates , whom some employers may assume ( partly on the basis of A level grades ) to be more ‘ able ’ than polytechnic or college ones , and for whom therefore the ‘ screening for ability ’ function of a degree for general graduate employment may be relatively more important ( Gordon 1983 ) . |
| 8 | A referential symbol , it might be argued , refers only in virtue of what it means , i.e. it necessarily carries a descriptive content . |
| 9 | Indeed , it can almost be read as inviting the supposition that industrial democracy , in that prescription , differs only in degree from current practices of consultation ; is to that extent already customary ; and is therefore unobjectionable and , as a ‘ democratic imperative ’ , inevitable . |
| 10 | Or more exactly , while he does stress the difference between poetry and referential language , he also stresses that the experience which poetry produces differs only in degree , not in kind , from other types of emotive experience . |
| 11 | The mistreatment of mental patients on Leros differs only in degree from others of the nine state mental hospitals in Greece , which together house some 10,000 patients . |
| 12 | After the initial booking-in , the man 's progression through the clinic differs only in detail from the woman 's . |
| 13 | To improve quality it recommended a two-divisional Sunday League , a straight knockout Benson & Hedges competition , and a County Championship programme consisting of 16 three-day and eight four-day matches , the latter to include Sunday play , on uncovered pitches and with bonus points only for bowling . |
| 14 | Though this section looks only at government regional policies and labour mobility policies , it is worth mentioning that these represent only a small proportion of government expenditure on aid to industry . |
| 15 | It would be wrong to believe that the body clock develops only in response to a rhythmic environment and the effect upon the sleep/wake and feeding rhythms that this produces . |
| 16 | ‘ I was so desperately afraid that you would turn out to be the sort of person who cares only about money and possessions . ’ |
| 17 | In this situation , the downstream stage starts only after completion of the upstream stage , with no timing overlap between the two . |
| 18 | But GEC 's interest lies only in use in instruments like lasers , VDUs and radar equipment . |
| 19 | The lack of communication to others has only in part been due to our own ineptness at salesmanship ; it more likely lies in a fairly deeply embedded resistance to drama being anything other than a community art — not just a performing art , a community art . |
| 20 | It is necessary to learn each of these activities in order to be able to write , and this learning process occurs only with practice . |
| 21 | Indeed , most successful dealers deter sellers by bluffing , saying what the client wants to hear like the Catholic priest who preaches only of heaven . |
| 22 | The word used for ‘ rise ’ is the one Luke uses only for resurrection . |
| 23 | In what follows , we ignore the possibility of such institutional changes and assume that the transactions demand for money depends only on money national income . |
| 24 | He adds : ‘ It should be noted that much of the evidence deals only with cancer of the stomach , because this was the subject of the original claims . |
| 25 | The standard textbook on the venereal diseases deals only with syphilis , gonorrhoea , chancroid , and LGV , with an addendum on NSU , and confuses the complications of non-specific urethritis with those of gonorrhoea . |
| 26 | As the manager of any Kazakh company knows , however , the zone exists only in name . |
| 27 | The noun ‘ dependent ’ is an ugly label , implying that a person exists only in relation to another person . |
| 28 | Hepatitis D , also known as ‘ delta hepatitis ’ exists only in combination with the hepatitis B virus . |
| 29 | It exists only in use and may be imparted and acquired through apprenticeship and practice . |
| 30 | It is dismissed as an irrelevant facade that conceals the reality of class rule behind the smokescreen of a democracy that exists only in form but not in substance . |