Example sentences of "[be] [verb] only [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not believe that a long period of purdah was necessary , and the general rule that such a record could not be published until thirty years after the event was indeed ridiculous , since it has been honoured only in the breach . |
| 2 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 3 | The scene had been altered only by the season . |
| 4 | Officials describe the exodus as ‘ quota-driven ’ , meaning that numbers are limited only by the number of places made available in resettlement countries . |
| 5 | It does rather sound as though DTP is where you 're heading , and your choices are limited only by the memory in your machine and your budget — in that order . |
| 6 | The kinds of worlds that can be created are limited only by the multimedia software designed to generate them and the computer processing power available to bring them to life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So far ethics committee approval has been given only for the treatment of individual patients as a debate continues about the risks of genetic-medicine misuse . |
| 9 | Visitors were allowed entry only in batches of 200 ; no sketches or notes were permitted on the premises ; future directors were obliged by her will to live in situ , on the fourth floor ( a rule which has been broken only by the present director ) . |
| 10 | Lord 's silence over Lamb has been broken only by the swish , frantic swish of sweeping every inconvenient fact under the Long Room carpet , now piled so high that Chris Bonnington might not scale it ! |
| 11 | some proteins are exposed only to the exterior surface of the cell . |
| 12 | some proteins are exposed only to the interior surface of the cell . |
| 13 | By contrast , in the Rose Theatre case the judge seems to have been influenced to deny standing partly by the fact that the Trust had been formed only for the purpose of campaigning for the preservation of the remains of the theatre ; whereas the same judge in another case accorded standing to challenge a grant of planning permission to a representative of a snake-preservation society which had been active on the site in question for many years and had ‘ put money into it ’ . |
| 14 | Dr Nathanson said that a reply had been received only on the eve of the press conference and did not alleviate all its concerns . |
| 15 | It might be that your ambitions are seriously flawed and you are preaching only to the converted . |
| 16 | The pleasures of driving our GTi are equalled only by the irritations . |
| 17 | Section 27(2) ( a ) permits the court or the arbitrator a discretion to ignore the governing law clause if it appears that it has been included only for the purpose of evading the provisions of the UCTA . |
| 18 | Art schools have been closed down and those that survive are permitted only to the extent to which they have converted to a market economy . |
| 19 | Females are attracted only by the song , as can be demonstrated by putting out a loudspeaker broadcasting the tape-recording song of a male cricket : females of that species will approach it . |
| 20 | Since we compiled the answer relating to company names and trade marks , our attention has been drawn to the case of Mothercare UK Ltd v Penguin ( 1987 ) which appears to have been reported only in the Times on 8 July 1987 . |
| 21 | Clower referred to magnitudes such as as ‘ notional ’ quantities in the sense that firms , if they are constrained only by the parameters of their production function and a given real wage rate , w 1 , would ideally like to supply output and demand labour services . |
| 22 | The trust funds are reported only in the fund accounts . |
| 23 | But as the vote is a foregone conclusion ( in outcome , if not in numbers ) , debates tend to be formalized occasions and , apart from the opening and the winding-up speeches , are attended only by the handful of MPs who wish to speak . |
| 24 | The purchase of land also presupposes that the peasantry involved were able to accumulate cash , which can have been done only by the production of surplus crops and their sale in a market . |
| 25 | Alternatively , the information obtained from a remote-sensing satellite could be inappropriate for a developing country if the sensors on board the vehicle are tailored only to the different requirements of industrialised nations . |
| 26 | Subsidies are granted only on the agreement that a set percentage of any budget must be spent in Hamburg . |
| 27 | Tax is deducted from all interest payments at a ‘ composite rate ’ which rate is calculated to yield that amount of tax which would have accrued to the Exchequer had the standard rate been applied only to the interest received by those liable to pay tax . |
| 28 | Over half the severely disabled elderly are living only with the spouse and exactly half the spouses caring for an elderly disabled partner are men . |
| 29 | Certain concepts , which previously had been connected only with the king , were universalised and became applicable to everyone . |
| 30 | Electric instantaneous showers , which are connected only to the mains cold water , are ideal for homes with direct cold water systems . |