Example sentences of "[verb] only [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be dry and acid , revealed only to a chosen few . |
| 2 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 3 | Yachts wishing to use the canal are limited only by a maximum mast height of 80ft ( 24.5m ) . |
| 4 | By permutations of these various incidents the number of possible classes is limited only by the total number of shares . |
| 5 | Since the Crown Court is a superior court , its power to punish is limited only by the maximum penalty set for the offence by an Act of Parliament . |
| 6 | The practical accuracy of this result , which is central to the determination of the fine structure , constant , is believed to be limited only by the residual dissipative current due to hopping through localised states . |
| 7 | He permanently secretes a thick , transparent mucus about this body , which is clad only in an ancient blue-black robe . |
| 8 | It was very quiet that evening , the steady rhythm of the ship 's engines interrupted only by the occasional guttural cry *om the deck above . |
| 9 | Having just secured world rights for her first book , she 's leading a life of food and snooze ; interrupted only by the occasional television interview . |
| 10 | I was able to breathe only with the utmost difficulty , and my arm hurt like hell . |
| 11 | It might be that your ambitions are seriously flawed and you are preaching only to the converted . |
| 12 | She obeyed , shivering , for the basement was heated only by a miserly , inefficient little oil stove . |
| 13 | If we concentrate only on the mythological representations and personifications of evil , we too easily relegate the Devil to our private worlds of personal torments and individual temptations . |
| 14 | some proteins are exposed only to the interior surface of the cell . |
| 15 | some proteins are exposed only to the exterior surface of the cell . |
| 16 | Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ . |
| 17 | The call is uttered only by the male cuckoo , who arrives slightly before the female , and begins to call as soon as he reaches the breeding grounds . |
| 18 | Any compilation is going to be a shallow thing redeemed only by the actual songs on it . |
| 19 | It is ‘ the men ’ who act as a body , and the actual organizer is recognized only as the symbolic embodiment of ‘ the men ’ , and is in no way superior or qualitatively different from ‘ the men ’ ‘ |
| 20 | I would argue , however , that love-making ought not to be treated as drawing only on the irrational side of a person 's nature . |
| 21 | The products of the Dorset potters were probably intended only for the auxiliary forts , as the evidence from Waddon Hill and Nanstallon ( Fox and Ravenhill , 1972 ) suggests . |
| 22 | The appointment of Stewart as vice-captain , opening batsman and wicketkeeper collapsed when Gooch missed the second Test , with Blakey consequently keeping wicket in two Tests when he was intended only for the one-day internationals . |
| 23 | The list given here is intended only as a general guide . |
| 24 | According to Mark Doran , Unix International 's technical project manager , Application Linking wo n't be a full object-oriented specification and is intended only as a stop-gap definition until the Object Group delivers object linking and embedding guidelines in two years ' time . |
| 25 | Of course H is intended only as an easy illustration of what might go wrong — and go wrong it does in some of the important generalisations of Z that arise in Section 3.6 . |
| 26 | Either each bell sounds different , and each could be heard in every apartment , or each sounds the same but is wired up to sound only in a single specific apartment when pressed . |
| 27 | The debate about overseas government expenditure may be seen as in one sense straightforward — an unsurprising clash of departmental interests , which , given the political weight of the participants , led only to a gradual though cumulative reduction in commitments . |
| 28 | Wage regulation applied only at the upper limit . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |