Example sentences of "[vb past] only [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fighting ceased only with the advent of darkness — but the respite was to be brief . |
| 2 | Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe . |
| 3 | According to Merleau-Ponty , Western academic Marxism , starting with Lukács , amounted only to the production of ‘ ideas without historical equivalents ’ ( 204 ) . |
| 4 | As the discussion followed between the now cosseted intruder and the male members of the small walking party which had found its grail at the lakeside Hotel , Miss Skelton was deferred to by her father , complimented by her mother , patted and plumped by her friends and avoided only by the chaplain , the Reverend Nicholson , who , Hope judged , was in love with her but too poor to press , too honourable to hotly pursue any claim . |
| 5 | The plaintiffs gathered information as to the results of horse races from various courses and transmitted that information to subscribers on terms that it should be used only in the newspaper or posted only in the club , newsroom , office or other place to which it was delivered . |
| 6 | The Act was needed to make up for the shortcomings of the Sale of Goods Act , 1979 , which applied only to the transfer of goods from a seller to a buyer and not to a situation where goods were being provided as part of a service , such as building work and car repairs , for example . |
| 7 | He is generally believed to be commemorated in the place name Caradon , which formerly applied only to the hill around which he held sway but now covers a complete District of South East Cornwall . |
| 8 | The testator has not regulated the case of the death of the second son childless : the condition on the trust in favour of his brother ( or rather now that brother 's heir ) is not satisfied , since that applied only to the brother to die first , if childless ; nor , since the first did not die childless , is the condition on the trust in favour of the granddaughter satisfied . |
| 9 | It said that equal treatment applied only from the date when the European Court made its ruling . |
| 10 | For this reason , when asked to host a Commonwealth conference in Ottawa , the Canadian government agreed only on the condition that the USA was also invited , to avoid charges of ‘ ganging up ’ . |
| 11 | After long discussions with Prof Spitz and his team , who had performed two similar operations before , the Holtons agreed only on the basis that each child would have an equal chance and organs would be shared equally . |
| 12 | This is a major advance on the pre-existing system of judicial monitoring where the Government agreed only to the publication of the first but not the succeeding reports of the monitor . |
| 13 | As it was , such girls as fancied themselves would leave their cubicle doors open , in the hope that tantalizing glimpses of leg and breast and buttock might be seen through the high and smoky glass , and once Clara , taking advantage of the convention that they were unobserved , walked the whole length of the changing room draped only from the waist down by a small towel , on the pretext of borrowing a safety pin . |
| 14 | That rule prohibits solicitors practising in partnership or " in association " ( where two or more firms have at least one common principal ) from representing : ( 1 ) both seller and buyer in a transfer of land for value at arm 's length ; or ( 2 ) both lessor and lessee on the grant of a lease for value at arm 's length ; or ( 3 ) both lender and borrower in a private mortgage at arm 's length with exceptions made only in the case of : ( 1 ) small transactions ; ( 2 ) where the parties are connected with each other ( commercially or personally ) ; ( 3 ) where there is no other solicitor or licensed conveyancer in the vicinity whom either party might reasonably instruct ; ( 4 ) where two associated firms or two offices of the same firm acting for the parties are in different locations , neither firm having received instructions to act on referral from the other and the matter is dealt with or supervised by a different solicitor at each firm or office and , where the solicitor is not involved in the negotiations , where no conflict of interest arises and where neither vendor nor lessor is a builder or developer . |
| 15 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 16 | It was platonic , for Louis was a man who lived only for the cause . |
| 17 | ‘ We and the Big Ones lived only on the savannah . |
| 18 | He lived only in the present , caring nothing for the past or the future . |
| 19 | dissenting ) [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 790 allowing an appeal by the respondent , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society ( now the Woolwich Building Society ) , from the decision of Nolan J. [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 137 that the right to repayment to them by the revenue of sums of £42,426,421 , £2,856,821 and £11,714,969 paid by Woolwich pursuant to a demand by the revenue under the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 , which were subsequently held to have been ultra vires , arose only at the moment of the decision as to the invalidity of the Regulations and not from the time that the payments were made . |
| 20 | Firstly , we were able to pinpoint a particular problem that arose only in the context of a complete system . |
| 21 | Insufficient data on survival ( patients admitted only for the management of the acute bleeding ) or incomplete medical records excluded seven patients ; 12 other patients were not studied because of prehepatic portal hypertension ( four ) , associated hepatocellular carcinoma or other neoplasms ( seven ) , or previous shunting ( one ) . |
| 22 | Once again , this situation is not initiated or maintained only by the child . |
| 23 | Secondly , the gift must be made upon the condition that it is to be absolute and perfected only on the donor 's death , being revocable until that event occurs and ineffective if it does not . |
| 24 | A prepared statement referred only to the case of Mr Phillips . |
| 25 | The concept of NAIRU referred only to the behaviour of the actual and the expected rate of inflation . |
| 26 | Yet The red pencil is the chewed one is quite normal on both readings , which would not be expected if on one of the readings pencil referred only to the core . |
| 27 | Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Description of Use or in any restriction of driving to specified persons in this Policy the indemnity to the Policyholder in connection with any motor car described in the Schedule shall operate while such motor car is in the custody or control of a member of the Motor Trade and used only for the purpose of its overhaul upkeep or repair . |
| 28 | The Channel Tunnel is to be built using the grand Chantier , or large scale works , procedure hitherto used only for the construction of nuclear power stations . |
| 29 | The baptistery was , in early Christian times , used only for the sacrament of baptism . |
| 30 | The majority of farm servants stayed only the one year with their master after the annual hiring , but they moved only into the service of other farmers drawing labour from the same hiring fair . |