Example sentences of "[verb] only at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wage regulation applied only at the upper limit . |
| 2 | And Anders , showing off his strength by tearing only at the thick material of Nina 's suit . |
| 3 | This study looks only at the latter two groups . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago . |
| 6 | I do not know whether the pattern which we see in this country — of significant differences between girls and boys appearing only at the higher levels of achievement — would also apply to the SIMS data . |
| 7 | In principle , this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate . |
| 8 | Under Theory X motivation occurs only at the physiological and security levels of Maslow 's hierarchy . |
| 9 | The simple end-product arrives only at the fifth attempt . |
| 10 | And then a dim light opened out ahead : their boots crunched on pebbles and they emerged from a small cave whose entrance was uncovered only at the lowest of low tides . |
| 11 | This is not to say that complementary therapies act only at the psychological level . |
| 12 | The important point to note as a summary here , is that the algorithms suggested for solving 30 out of 36 errors , would find the correct ( i.e. intended ) word by looking only at the top ranked candidate string , which neatly solves the problem described earlier of what to choose as a starting point for possible error correction , and avoids the potentially explosive situations . |
| 13 | REMEMBER — IN BRITAIN , IMAX CAN BE SEEN ONLY AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY , FILM AND TELEVISION , BRADFORD |
| 14 | Below the rear central lamp , which shone into the interior , is the curved transverse tambour ; once erroneously thought to have been a sword-case , it opened only at the left hand end , outside the carriage , and its true purpose is obscure . |
| 15 | Phosphorus concentrations were measured only at the four sites listed . |
| 16 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 17 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 18 | To achieve this , the astronomers have , for a start , worked only at the shorter infrared wavelengths — 1.2 , 1.6 , 2.2 , 3.8 and 4–8 mm — to which the atmosphere is reasonably transparent . |
| 19 | Peter Dutton , Corporate Recruitment Manager at Procter & Gamble 's UK head office in Newcastle , wrote : ‘ We do not use Headhunters at all , because we have a policy of recruiting only at the first level of management ( usually graduates direct from university ) and filling all more senior management positions by promotion from within . ’ |
| 20 | Even on the premier franchises , the marginal operator is likely to compete only at the best times while the franchisee is left to operate the full seven day service . |
| 21 | Certain ‘ representatives of the Afghan people ’ would be admitted only at the second stage of the conference and they would need to accept the decisions of the conference . |
| 22 | A similar state of affairs had existed only at the very dawn of coinage when , in a number of areas including Asia Minor or Athens , a variety of personal designs had appeared , perhaps implying that for a short time after its inception coinage was sometimes produced on the authority of prominent individuals rather than of the state . |
| 23 | And Charlotte was suddenly aware of him as a person , and by no means an unintelligent person , either ; but above all a vital presence , to be ignored only at the general peril . |
| 24 | These series carry pages which are common to all editions and other pages which are aimed only at the small circulation areas . |
| 25 | The repeating shape of the accompaniment in quavers is designed to recur only at the first beat of the seventh bar . |
| 26 | The Japanese unzipped the foot of the mainsail so that the boom was loaded only at the inboard and outboard ends . |