Example sentences of "[vb -s] only [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ceramic and soil contain minute quantities of uranium , thorium and potassium which are radioactive , and when these decay they produce alpha , beta and gamma radiation ( potassium contributes only to the beta and gamma components ) . |
| 2 | The Music dictionary contributes only to the recognition of Music text . |
| 3 | Weathering here refers only to the physical agents of sun , wind , rain and temperature change , and the effects of burial in soils ( breakage and corrosion ) will be discussed separately below . |
| 4 | The final draft refers only to the marine environment , which , according to Patricia Bliss-Guest , UNEP 's legal advisor , eliminates large parts of the Gulfs of Mexico , Venezuela , and Campeche , as well as extensive coastal areas throughout the rest of the region . |
| 5 | Mr. Robert Hughes : I think that the Minister intended some slight criticism of the new clause on the ground that it refers only to the companies covered by the Bill . |
| 6 | It refers only to the cause of a difference not to a whole course of development . |
| 7 | Completed family size sometimes refers only to the number of surviving children . |
| 8 | It is via these windows that the system informs the Offline Operator what is happening and requests a media item to be physically mounted or dismounted on the appropriate media unit ; in this case mounting refers only to the action of placing a media item onto a media unit . |
| 9 | But whereas the long version refers only to the words in Lamentations 1:12 ( O all ye that pass by the way , attend , and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow ) , the short version incorporates all the references to focus more sharply on the organic relationship between man and Christ whose natural growth is blasted by sin : And only in the short version does the meditator acknowledge this by identifying himself with the penitent thief pleading for pardon to be extended to him , and confessing his failure to acknowledge Christ as the true source of his integrity : In both versions the meditator admits that the very ability to recognise the life-giving power in Christ is a sign that he in fact has the love of God even if he does not feel it : And in both , as the meditator sees his betrayal and sense of deprivation borne by Christ in His words : " My god , my dere god , why hastow al forsakyn me … ( 89. cf.102 ) he imagines himself lying down among the bones of dead men on mount Calvary , taking the foot of the Cross in his arms , the stench of death in his nostrils . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , it differs only in the way it 's played . ’ |
| 11 | In the resulting breed , the body is covered with a short , soft down in place of the usual fur and as the cat grows up this down persists only on the extremities . |
| 12 | Soviet leaders had been prepared to consider international arrangements and guarantees only on the external aspects of the Afghan problem . |
| 13 | In a brain bigger than a city , with geological slowness , He thinks only of the Weight . |
| 14 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 15 | Derived from the Greek words phyllon ( leaf ) and xeros ( dry ) , the phylloxera lives only on the vine and can not survive on any other host . |
| 16 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 17 | — senses can not always be derived by affix-stripping , e.g. ’ conductivity ’ derives from ’ conduct ’ , but corresponds only to the electrical sense ( one would not talk of the ’ conductivity ’ of an orchestra ) ; |
| 18 | There is not yet , however , any experimental evidence for these phenomena : injection of a low-power continuous signal is routinely used to induce single-longitudinal mode operation in , for example , high-power CO , lasers , but this application corresponds only to the small-injected signal limit of the system under discussion . |
| 19 | If one looks only at the outer signs , one may see a cantankerous , dotty old person , but in the soul something very different may be perceived . |
| 20 | This study looks only at the latter two groups . |
| 21 | It has been said that the surety 's obligation is simply that of paying money and , of course , in a sense that is true if one looks only at the remedy which the landlord has against him in the event of default by the tenant . |
| 22 | It looks only at the side of business interests who think only of trade liberalization . |
| 23 | ( 8 ) Appeal lies only to the Court of Session on a point of law . |
| 24 | The difference lies only in the cultural pattern with which the children associates . |
| 25 | For those whose main interest lies only in the formalistic approach to physics , these results will have little impact , but to those who are interested in trying to understand further the implications of this non-locality there remain intriguing questions , which must be carefully examined in depth . |
| 26 | Kenny makes a similar point when arguing that we can talk of animal wants only to the extent that they are restricted to their conscious needs . |
| 27 | This connection between high status employment work and present dissatisfaction with housework holds only for the middle-class women , but there is evidence that the tendency to be dissatisfied with housework in relation to the status of one 's previous job may involve the question of a ‘ reference group ’ . |
| 28 | Gael , who is not religious , holds only with the first half of the double limerick according to which existence depends on being the object of another 's perception . |
| 29 | Above all , he criticizes the ways in which Hegel reduces the diverse historical totality of a society to a single internal principle , so that history occurs only through the principle of contradiction in the dialectic . |
| 30 | Under Theory X motivation occurs only at the physiological and security levels of Maslow 's hierarchy . |