Example sentences of "[vb infin] only [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Here the examiner will probably have divided up the possible marks in his mind among the component parts , and an answer to one part , be it ever so brilliant , can earn only the appropriate total for that part .
2 I know that I shall make only a small start before Christmas , so perhaps I can take the opportunity afforded by this Newsletter to wish you all a very happy Christmas and a good New Year .
3 Observers commented that the modifications would make only a token difference to the King 's real power .
4 But it will make only a marginal difference to the stagnant housing market .
5 This is because the profit function before the change must have been horizontal at the optimum , so a small change in the optimum price will make only a marginal difference to the firms ' profits .
6 There is , however , no clear one-to-one relationship between discourse type and sender and receiver , and for many words denoting discourse type ( song , for example , or article ) we can make only the vaguest connections .
7 His description of the recovery of a Hunter over a Swiss airshow served as another graphic reminder that a performance should emphasize the aircraft 's character but should utilize only the established skills of the pilot — and should never require his super-human efforts to get out of a situation .
8 The change of context can influence only an excitatory association and thus the result of Fig. 4.6 , a loss of the CR , can be expected .
9 The privatisation will affect only the long-distance element of the network , which is run over lines leased from both British Telecom and Mercury .
10 Organizations can absorb only a small number of people with these work goals .
11 The defence could always allege only a constructive possession and that there was no actual possession in the absence of a witness stating positive actual possession .
12 Here we can consider only the final versions .
13 In this section we shall consider only the simplest type , that is temperature-composition phase diagrams of liquid mixtures which form a simple eutectic .
14 While the United States would yield a constant strategic threat to the Soviet homeland the USSR would yield only a first strike threat to the American fleet .
15 We should not overlook the possibility of attracting professional musicians into church music , and the teaching profession in particular contains people who might need only a little persuasion to help , at least on an occasional basis .
16 This should need only a few turns
17 Yet , although that directive will need only a qualified majority vote , it is unlikely to whisk through the council .
18 If you are aiming almost for pure comedy , then your detective will need only the smallest core of toughness or commonsense .
19 For most chemical reactions the rate of reaction is much slower than the collision frequency so you must assume only a small fraction of collisions result in a reaction .
20 The relation ’ — larger than — ’ can thus generate only a non-branching hierarchy ; in such a hierarchy we would have to say that B and C above jointly occupied the same position .
21 Agency laboratories can process only a certain number of samples at any given time and organize the taking of samples to produce a steady and predictable flow .
22 The rest , certainly many fewer than now , will do only a limited business .
23 It was an enormous moment , this good-bye to the old home ; so enormous she could hardly grasp it , could feel only a vague regret .
24 She could feel only a few twigs .
25 Some of these factors are beyond the control of the individual worker ; others are his own to decide ; and others represent situations where the individual can exert only a minor influence .
26 By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times .
27 The first assumption is that each cell can accommodate only a single reach or segment of a stream , and the stream can therefore move through each cell only once .
28 This chapter can give only a general survey , intended to place the various methods in some perspective .
29 As there are several excellent histories of the development of town and country planning legislation ( Ashworth 1954 ; Cherry 1974a , 1974b ; Sheail 1981 ) , we shall give only a brief review here .
30 The house was n't visible from where they stood , in the cool beneath the branches , and even further along , where the path turned , following the contours of the shoreline , they could see only a small part of it , jutting up , white between the intense green of the surrounding trees .
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