Example sentences of "[verb] only [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the obligation to provide instruction about maintenance is to be limited only to the first occupier , it is likely that subsequent purchasers will require the information to be passed on every time the property is sold . |
| 2 | By permutations of these various incidents the number of possible classes is limited only by the total number of shares . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A cheese resembling Camembert was the glory of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire , where records for cheese making go back to as early as 1280 ; and production ceased only in the mid-nineteenth century with the enclosure of the common fen . |
| 6 | Many people will not realise that there is a property element built in and that they qualify only for the 25 per cent . |
| 7 | The stockmarket has in effect been closed to new equity issues for three years , and banks will lend only to the safest borrowers . |
| 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 | To expect a full grammatical statement of BSL after a research history which can be traced only to the mid-70s , would have been optimistic in the extreme . |
| 12 | It might be that your ambitions are seriously flawed and you are preaching only to the converted . |
| 13 | They must be taught through benevolence and sympathy ; when the necessity arises shame may be used , but fear only in the last extremity , and then ‘ with such delicacy that if possible the habit may not gather strength by the use you are constrained to make of it ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | some proteins are exposed only to the interior surface of the cell . |
| 16 | some proteins are exposed only to the exterior surface of the cell . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Any compilation is going to be a shallow thing redeemed only by the actual songs on it . |
| 20 | 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 ’ ‘ |
| 21 | I would argue , however , that love-making ought not to be treated as drawing only on the irrational side of a person 's nature . |
| 22 | Michael Ramsey qualified only under the first of those epithets . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Wage regulation applied only at the upper limit . |
| 26 | ( The rape and incest clauses applied only until the 13th week of gestation . ) |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As Marx ( 1989 ) has discussed , the science of genetic engineering has been developed only since the 1940s and especially since the 1970s , but its origins really began with the efforts of Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel who , in the mid-nineteenth century , established the principles of heredity . |
| 30 | Pauper apprenticeship , like child labour in general , was not a particular novelty of the factory system , although its use in coal mining seems to have developed only in the nineteenth century and to have been largely localised to the Black Country . |