Example sentences of "[vb mod] only [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Because EPS files are stored with an accompanying bitmap they must be transferred in binary format and , owing to the screen problems , may only appear as a grey rectangle on the PC .
2 We may only conjecture about the degree to which these subjective assessments were influenced by prior experience of the school in other contexts , the existence of good or bad relations between the reporter and the staff of the school , and the personal prejudices and preferences of the individual concerned .
3 Section 16(8) of the Act says the search may only extend to the purpose for which the warrant is issued .
4 If you hold a full Great Britain licence but are currently disqualified in GB you may only apply for a provisional licence .
5 In these few words we may only point to the kaleidoscope of enthusiasm and activity by secondees that has been generated across the country in such a short space of time .
6 Any actuarial calculation must therefore be discounted to allow for the chance that he may only live for a shorter period .
7 This stands for Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering and erm under this scheme , a company erm can have a problem tackled by a research student working in a university and erm a supervisor , and indeed in this case , the input , the financial input , by the company may be quite small , may only amount to a few hundred pounds .
8 Only a parent has such a right , and even then the parent may only act in the best interests of the patient .
9 ‘ The Commission may only deal with the matter after all domestic remedies have been exhausted , according to the generally recognised rules of international law . ’
10 As a result , a political response to economic crisis does not arise automatically , but may only emerge with a considerable lag , and its content will be highly variable from polity to polity .
11 We work on the principle that you should only pay for the services you need .
12 I 'd always understood that land should only go into the greenbelt if it was necessary to be kept permanently open , by reason of it performing one of the five purposes .
13 However campers should only stay for a night or two , be unobtrusive and sensitive to wildlife , and leave no litter .
14 The vendor should only account to the purchaser for post-taxation income earned during the interim stage .
15 The top two semitones , B ♯ and C are , however , rather difficult to produce and should only used at the end of an upward-rushing ff scale .
16 This should only happen as a last resort in exceptional circumstances and if it does , you should take legal advice as soon as possible .
17 But like everything else they 'll only work with the cooperations of of the of the er motoring public .
18 One hundred erm maybe it 'll only work with the times , generally on scientific ones , they do n't use the percent
19 ‘ Aye well , miss , if I do n't see her the night on the quiet , I 'll only come to the shop the morrow , an' I 'll put it plainly to her da . ’
20 And we 've been told that we 'll only get between a nought and one point five percent increase at the most .
21 I 'll only get in the way .
22 No it 's because it 'll only look at the
23 you might only lose about a paragraph of work
24 During the course of the day the Bank 's objective will be to provide enough assistance to the money market ( through outright bill operations and the other techniques discussed below ) to relieve the overall expected shortage , but purchases of bills by the Bank at the early rounds of assistance during the course of the day might only account for a small proportion of the overall assistance provided , for four main reasons .
25 For Schopenhauer , valuable as all the arts were , music was the art which uniquely penetrated the depths of metaphysical reality and expressed the essence of that reality , the will , directly : " the composer reveals the innermost nature of the world and expresses the deepest wisdom in a language which his rational faculty does not understand " , Words , on the other hand , like the instruments of reason that they are , could only intrude from the secondary world of physical phenomena , with which true music was not concerned .
26 He said that councillors had no idea what was going on , and could only rely on the advice of the council 's officials .
27 The company was bound by the representation and could only rely on the exclusion clause to exclude liability for damage to beads and sequins .
28 There were large and small holes and we could only go through a hole once .
29 Warned that she could only stay for a few moments , Laura had sat down quietly in a chair beside the bed , taking her cousin 's inert , pale hand and praying , as she had never prayed before , that Liz would be able to survive her ordeal .
30 But , he favoured her with what she could only perceive as a reassuring smile when , ‘ I 'm on my way to Mariánské Láznë myself , ’ he commented easily , ‘ so that 's one problem you can forget . ’
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