Example sentences of "[verb] only on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I would argue , however , that love-making ought not to be treated as drawing only on the irrational side of a person 's nature . |
| 3 | Soviet leaders had been prepared to consider international arrangements and guarantees only on the external aspects of the Afghan problem . |
| 4 | The news means ACE has now effectively lost two of its main founder members — if MIPS ' submission to Silicon Graphics Inc is n't counted — and at best can count only on the flirtatious attention of Digital Equipment Corp and Microsoft Corp , who are conducting their own extra-marital affair . |
| 5 | In other words , the Lords said , Parliament intended that teachers should be taxed only on the marginal cost . |
| 6 | Active hegemony in effect operated only on the moderate right wing of Labour , that ‘ intellectual group most congenial to the majority of Trade Union leaders ’ ( ibid. p 181 ) . |
| 7 | But the celebrated Mayfair fashion house is operating only on a week-to-week basis to complete orders and little hope exists of securing its future by finding a buyer . |
| 8 | However , the real-balance effect is a pure wealth effect , operating only on the real value of the stock of outside money , whereas the ‘ money ’ referred to in the Cambridge or Fisher equations is almost entirely inside money which does not constitute part of the net worth of the private sector . |
| 9 | In ( a ) no geometrical details are allowed for and the bounds depend only on the relative volumes of the constituents . |
| 10 | They all confirm that a black hole ought to emit particles and radiation as if it were a hot body with a temperature that depends only on the black hole 's mass : the higher the mass , the lower the temperature . |
| 11 | Although the rated pole winding current depends only on the acceptable temperature rise , the corresponding rated phase current also depends 01 , the inter-connection , as shown in Table 1.1 : The rated phase voltage is the voltage which must be applied at the phase terminals to circulate the rated current in the windings . |
| 12 | Here , G is the gravitational constant , c the speed of light , and M is the mass of the star , so the crucial radius , called the Schwadschild radius , depends only on the collapsing star 's mass ; for a star of the Sun 's mass the Schwarzschild radius equals about 3 kilometres . |
| 13 | The complete set of values obtained is presented only on the following Figure , but some of the raw data are also given [ see Table ] in order to show the considerable variation between different positions . |
| 14 | In the US , some observers point out that single-mode fibre has been produced only on a small scale and the technology is not proven . |
| 15 | It has been argued , for example , that laterality should be measured only on a nominal scale ( Colbourn , 1978 ) such that only the direction and not the magnitude of any laterality effect is taken into account . |
| 16 | The political parties of the narrow and fragmented centre of the political spectrum , from which all governments had to be drawn , were agreed only on the fundamental issue of preserving the Fourth Republic : they had , as it were , reserved their right to disagree on everything else . |
| 17 | Our mentors and brothers at the Subud enclave encouraged us to focus only on the inner world , and to avoid exploring the dangerous but tempting " illusory " world of " Maya " outside . |
| 18 | What would have happened if penicillin had not been discovered , or if years of patient research had failed to explain why sulphonamides acted only on a limited selection of microbes ? |
| 19 | In general the obsidian forms only on the outer skin of the lava , which is rapidly chilled , while the central parts of the flow , which remain hot for a long while , consist of rhyolite . |
| 20 | Any other arrangement can be based only on the assumed requirements of each sex , an approach which we consider to be incompatible with equal status ’ . |
| 21 | However , it is based only on the net asset value and there is no market in the shares . |
| 22 | 202–120 BC ) , but this opinion is based only on the constitutional chapters in his history of the world , for elsewhere he shows no sign of it . |
| 23 | 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 : |
| 24 | George I had tried , but failed , to end the pernicious practice of the purchase of commissions , which encouraged officers to recoup what they had spent by making what profit they could on clothing and feeding their men or through claiming the pay for ghost-like soldiers who existed only on the nominal rolls . |
| 25 | Even in extruded mesenchyme , they were detected only on the posterior side of the extrusion ( Fig. 2 g , and data not shown ) . |
| 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 | Fazisi survived only on the good will of the people at each stopover . |
| 28 | Unemployment rose from 272,000 in July ( 3.1 per cent of the workforce ) to 350,000 at the end of August ( 4.17 per cent of the workforce ) , with an additional 10 per cent of the workforce employed only on a short-time basis . |
| 29 | If the Laboulbeniales is found only on a single species of guest , or only on the host , this may indicate that the commensal relationship is of fairly recent origin . |
| 30 | Cigarettes , soap , even guitarstrings , could be found only on the black market . |