Example sentences of "[vb -s] only [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Music dictionary contributes only to the recognition of Music text . |
| 2 | The ceramic and soil contain minute quantities of uranium , thorium and potassium which are radioactive , and when these decay they produce alpha , beta and gamma radiation ( potassium contributes only to the beta and gamma components ) . |
| 3 | Mr. Robert Hughes : I think that the Minister intended some slight criticism of the new clause on the ground that it refers only to the companies covered by the Bill . |
| 4 | But whereas the long version refers only to the words in Lamentations 1:12 ( O all ye that pass by the way , attend , and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow ) , the short version incorporates all the references to focus more sharply on the organic relationship between man and Christ whose natural growth is blasted by sin : And only in the short version does the meditator acknowledge this by identifying himself with the penitent thief pleading for pardon to be extended to him , and confessing his failure to acknowledge Christ as the true source of his integrity : In both versions the meditator admits that the very ability to recognise the life-giving power in Christ is a sign that he in fact has the love of God even if he does not feel it : And in both , as the meditator sees his betrayal and sense of deprivation borne by Christ in His words : " My god , my dere god , why hastow al forsakyn me … ( 89. cf.102 ) he imagines himself lying down among the bones of dead men on mount Calvary , taking the foot of the Cross in his arms , the stench of death in his nostrils . |
| 5 | Completed family size sometimes refers only to the number of surviving children . |
| 6 | It is via these windows that the system informs the Offline Operator what is happening and requests a media item to be physically mounted or dismounted on the appropriate media unit ; in this case mounting refers only to the action of placing a media item onto a media unit . |
| 7 | It refers only to the cause of a difference not to a whole course of development . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , it differs only in the way it 's played . ’ |
| 9 | In the resulting breed , the body is covered with a short , soft down in place of the usual fur and as the cat grows up this down persists only on the extremities . |
| 10 | In a brain bigger than a city , with geological slowness , He thinks only of the Weight . |
| 11 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 12 | Derived from the Greek words phyllon ( leaf ) and xeros ( dry ) , the phylloxera lives only on the vine and can not survive on any other host . |
| 13 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 14 | It looks only at the side of business interests who think only of trade liberalization . |
| 15 | It has been said that the surety 's obligation is simply that of paying money and , of course , in a sense that is true if one looks only at the remedy which the landlord has against him in the event of default by the tenant . |
| 16 | ( 8 ) Appeal lies only to the Court of Session on a point of law . |
| 17 | Kenny makes a similar point when arguing that we can talk of animal wants only to the extent that they are restricted to their conscious needs . |
| 18 | Above all , he criticizes the ways in which Hegel reduces the diverse historical totality of a society to a single internal principle , so that history occurs only through the principle of contradiction in the dialectic . |
| 19 | Thus significant fractionation of O isotopes occurs only at the surface of the Earth . |
| 20 | Since curvature occurs only on the boundaries of regions I , II and III , the differently shaped boundaries of these regions have to be identified artificially . |
| 21 | In the plains spadefoot , however , the primary reason for shoaling is to avoid being eaten , since shoaling occurs only in the presence of such predators as snakes and the larvae of carnivorous water beetles . |
| 22 | As it occurs only in the males it has been suggested that it is somehow employed in male-to-male rivalry . |
| 23 | The increased incorporation occurs only in the groups showing memory and not in the group which is trained but amnesic . |
| 24 | This story seems garbled and may be nonsense , but the coincidence between King Haldanus and the Haldenne princeps regis of the Canterbury material remains ; possibly Cnut did have a relative or associate of this name , for the fact that his sister Santslaue occurs only in the Liber Vitae of New Minster Winchester indicates that his kin could have extended further than the threadbare sources reveal . |
| 25 | First , the effect is pathway-specific ; that is , it occurs only in the cells to which the conditioning train is delivered , rather than spreading across to others — it is thus the result of the functioning of a network of specific connections rather than a wave of diffuse activity ; because there are several distinct input pathways to separate areas even within a single hippocampal slice , this specificity can be elegantly demonstrated . |
| 26 | The most catastrophic disease , witches ' broom , has never spread beyond South and Central America and the Caribbean ; even in Brazil , it occurs only in the Amazon basin and not in the main cocoa-growing region of Bahia , 2000 km to the south-east . |
| 27 | To convince ourselves of the specificity of the bursting effect , Roger and I repeated the experiment using the electroshock amnesia approach I referred to above ; the bursting activity , like the biochemical and structural changes , occurs only in the animals which remember the task . |
| 28 | Regular slashing to protect useful species results in a litter richer in new leaves which are more nutrient-rich , especially in relation to nitrogen and phosphorus , than older leaves and slashing usually occurs only after the re-establishment of a root mat which helps to bind nutrients that would otherwise be lost via leaching . |
| 29 | Thus , for example , a matrix of order 6 having three equal eigenvalues{ ga } , two equal eigenvalues{ gb } , and an unrepeated eigenvalue{ gg } , would have as its canonical form unc where each x may be zero or unity ; it occurs only within the submatrices containing groups of equal eigenvalues . |
| 30 | Signalling by diffusion can work well for small organisms , but it is limited ; diffusion of chemical signals over long distances is slow and inefficient , as it can not be specifically targeted to ensure that the signal arrives only at the cell it was intended for . |