Example sentences of "[verb] only [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He permanently secretes a thick , transparent mucus about this body , which is clad only in an ancient blue-black robe . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The conduct of pedagogic research as I have defined it here presupposes attitudes and approaches to techniques of teaching which are developed only through an educational perspective and this in turn calls for a continuous programme of in-service support . |
| 4 | The difference between the two countries is that the formal wording of the United States Constitution can be amended only by an extraordinary process , i.e. , one that goes beyond the provisions employed for amending the ordinary law . |
| 5 | The sky is of a rich sea blue that is almost grotesque in its fullness of colour , broken only by an indignant stream of clouds piping up in the distant horizon . |
| 6 | He began the Standard 's Premonitions Bureau to record and date any claims of prophecies , and which would act only as an independent and impartial witness . |
| 7 | One Victorian scheme was for a tunnel lit by candles , where horses would draw passengers across in special vehicles , pausing only at an artificial island in the middle of the Channel for everyone to come up for air and water . |
| 8 | Structuralism is revolutionary because it can be adopted only as an alternative and not as an addition to traditional academic habits . |
| 9 | In fact mental experience can be consulted only retrospectively and such experience , as evidence for the existence of mind , can appear only as an introspective report of past events . |
| 10 | The deep silence was disturbed only by an occasional flurry of wind echoing strangely around unseen rock faces — the giant sighs of a sleeping mountain . |
| 11 | If any greater certainty could be given then it could be done only by an unacceptable narrowing of the duty to restrict it to a part of the auditors responsibilities and we 're also concerned that to do so could have potentially wide ranging implications for the scope of auditor 's functions more generally . |
| 12 | If not , it amounts only to an invalid legacy . |
| 13 | The seminary itself is difficult to see , the approach from the road leading only to an imposing wall with faceless windows and a usually , barred door It was built by San Carlo Borromeo in 1564 and is square , the four walls enclosing a courtyard that measures 56 metres on one side and is surrounded by a double tier gallery , each floor of which is supported by double Doric columns . |
| 14 | The table above calculates your interest payments per month , although it should be used only as an approximate guide . |
| 15 | The validity of these take up assumptions is obviously affected by the passage of time from late August to late September and the firmness of the UF figures is known from experience to vary widely between fields ; the estimated enrolment figures are therefore used only as an approximate guide to the Co-ordinator and senior tutors in deciding on the numbers of late offers to be made at special weekly meetings of the MAC in September . |
| 16 | Any ‘ stable world ’ it presents is further overwhelmed by the progressive revelation that each narrator exists only as an imaginative device of a subsequent one , in a succession of evasions leading towards the unnamable author and the depths of an impulse to articulate , which can neither rest nor ever consummate its desires . |
| 17 | The Catholic miracle of transubstantiation could be performed only by an ordained priest , who then received the body and blood alone at the altar . |
| 18 | Enzensberger 's whole position , which seems to cry out for such examination , leads only to an overstrained nihilism . |
| 19 | The reasons behind playing this game were not based only on an abstract conception of duty , but also on the notions expressed in More 's conclusion to the stage managing which offered Richard III the crown : |
| 20 | This can be reached only by an impartial examination of each piece of evidence as it is uncovered . |
| 21 | One of his major scriptural commentaries survives only in an old Irish manuscript . |
| 22 | Choreographers should never assume that all in the audience have sufficient knowledge of the subject , theme and ideas which are possibly understood only by an exclusive coterie of friends . |
| 23 | I regret to say that this has been a breathtakingly disappointing debate , even by the standards of those initiated by Labour Members , redeemed only by an excellent constructive contribution by my hon. Friend the Member for Epping Forest ( Mr. Norris ) , who made an outstanding speech . |
| 24 | He added that he would be speaking only as an individual and not as a representative of the Chief Police Officers Association . |
| 25 | The garments are usually shapeless , not very waterproof , and can be worn only with an olive-green acrylic hat , long , brown woollen slacks , and a pair of stout shoes from British Home Stores . |
| 26 | By the mid '60s the heyday of the hairy-chested open sports car was coming to an end , surviving only on an uneasy and temporary truce with the law-makers and the environmentalist lobby . |
| 27 | For Eliot , who chose the other way , earned entry into nothing more seriously influential than the circles of Bloomsbury , where the Edwardian pattern survived only in an attenuated and largely illusory version . ) |
| 28 | This survived only in an underground way in folk song , nursery rhymes , children 's counting verses , and so on . |
| 29 | If the management 's lawyers are not successful in removing a provision of this kind , then its effect can be mitigated by amendment so that it will apply only after an agreed period of time , for example five years , or with the consent of an agreed percentage of the members ; the latter may be appropriate where the investment has been syndicated . |
| 30 | Yet , outside the areas of dispersed settlement — Galicia , the Basque Provinces , and parts of Catalonia — the large agrarian village or small town was a social heritage it was impossible to destroy in the interests of agricultural efficiency ; in arid country the peasant regards the land as the source of a poor livelihood , not as a mystique ; he prefers to live away from it ; the social satisfactions of the pueblo were subsumed in the concept of animacíon , the absence of rural boredom to be found only in an urban or semi-urban community . |