Example sentences of "[vb infin] only [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Man 's cultural development can arise only at the cost of a persisting lack of satisfaction of those sexual impulses which are seen as improper by men and women — the higher the degree of civilization and education , the greater the number of unsatisfied impulses . |
| 2 | Either may arise only after the performance or occurrence of some particular acts . |
| 3 | Clearly in that case any statements about the services at the hotel can relate only to the future . |
| 4 | The statements could relate to past facts ( i. e. they could mean that those services were provided last season ) or they could relate only to the future ( i.e. that they will be provided next season ) . |
| 5 | Owing to the changes made in the law of intestate succession ( see pp. 111–13 ) , coparcenary can exist only in the case of an entailed interest . |
| 6 | One thing seems clear , that such patterns did not exist only in the present largely abandoned marginal uplands , but also over great areas of the country . |
| 7 | These elements ( the equivalent of nerve cells ) may be tangible silicon chips or they may exist only in the cyberspace of a working computer program . |
| 8 | Perhaps the greatest restrictions are that he or she can act only on the request of an MP and the only weapon available is to publicize the misdeeds . |
| 9 | Whilst the White Paper acknowledges that local policy objectives and resources must be a key context in planning and delivery services , the government appears to be clear that at the point of assessment , decisions must be needs-based and ‘ should not focus only on the user 's suitability for a particular existing scheme ’ ( DoH , 1989b , p. 18 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Business enterprises can survive only with the approval of the community in which they operate and they have an interest in revealing information which displays how differing interests are being balanced for the benefit of the whole community . |
| 11 | ‘ The firm name used by a multi-national partnership shall consist only of the name or names of one or more lawyers , being present or former principals of either the multi-national partnership or a predecessor legal practice , together with , if desired , other conventional references to the firm and to such persons ; or a name approved in writing by the Council as the name of the multi-national partnership or of a predecessor legal practice . ’ |
| 12 | ( b ) The Firm Name ( Clauses 1.01.3 and 3 ) Rule 11 of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 provides that : The name of a firm of solicitors shall consist only of the name or names of one or more present or former principals together with , if desired , other conventional references to the firm and to such persons ; or a firm name in use on 28th February 1967 ; or one approved in writing by the Council of the Law Society . |
| 13 | It was significant that , when the war took a grave turn the following year , it was to every Anglican incumbent in the land ( and no doubt to many others , though I can speak only for the parish clergy ) that Duff Cooper , the Home Secretary , sent letters expressing apprehension of the state of public morale and urging the incumbents to do their utmost to help raise it . |
| 14 | Statutes are only one of the means by which governments can achieve their policy objectives and there are , surprisingly , relatively few things which governments can do only with the approval of Parliament as expressed in the passing of a statute . |
| 15 | There is nothing but House and Seven , hence the House can grow only at the expense of the Seven . |
| 16 | But plants , as we have seen , can grow only near the surface of the sea , in the photic zone . |
| 17 | Of course , in open economy models of temporary equilibrium , alterations in the nominal exchange rate might do the trick of reducing real wages through their impact on the terms of trade ; but , in the case of a devaluation , this would succeed only to the extent that the phenomenon of real wage resistance were not encountered . |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman need not look only to the health authority chief executive ; he can ask the patients . |
| 19 | He regarded all existing churches as false , believing the true church would emerge only at the end of the 1,260 years in the wilderness ( Revelations xii . |
| 20 | No totality has a necessary transcendence embodied within it ; as for the later Sartre , the course of historical change is open and will work only through the overdetermination of particular historical conjunctures . |
| 21 | Unexpectedly , vertebrates apparently do not produce the enzyme cellulose and the process of cellulolytic degradation can occur only with the aid of populations of anaerobic bacteria in specialised fermentation chambers in the alimentary tract . |
| 22 | In the psychological sense , creation of any sort can occur only in the face of commensurate opposition , and a balance or reconciliation must be established between the two forces in order that the idea may become an actuality and be sustained . |
| 23 | Many karateka get this wrong and make use only of the arm action . |
| 24 | However , if the local authority does not include the spillover benefits in its decision-making calculations , it will provide only to the point where |
| 25 | The statutory interest rules continue to apply where there is a set-off such that any repayment supplement due on the overpayment will run only to the date of set-off . |
| 26 | This code is machine specific ; that is , it will run only on the type of computer for which it was written . |
| 27 | The changes will take several months to make much difference to most people 's lives ( price controls remain on basic foods , heating and transport ; the auctions of small businesses will begin only at the end of January ) . |
| 28 | The marginal costs of elongation of pintails and deep forks will depend only on the width of their streamers , but will always be substantially lower than those of graduated tails , in which nearly all tail feathers are elongated . |
| 29 | Specifically , the rock 's conductivity would depend only upon the amount and conductivity of the carbon fraction present , and have a negligible variation with pressure , as for pure carbon . |
| 30 | In evaluating the commercial possibilities of options , it should be assumed that the parties will act in accordance with their economic interests , but account should not be taken of courses of action which the parties would take only in the event of a severe deterioration in the creditworthiness of the issuer . |