Example sentences of "[vb infin] only [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both laboratory experiments and numerical simulations have demonstrated that plumes can arise only at a boundary between convective regimes , such as that between the Earth 's core and mantle at a depth of 2,900 km . |
| 2 | ( The English Electric number quoted in the October FlyPast may well relate only to a sub-section . ) |
| 3 | The loop could act only as a monitor to be interrogated in the case of breakdown of comprehension . |
| 4 | Rather , they can act only as a guide to decision making by making the assumptions underlying the decisions explicit . |
| 5 | So the second attitude can flourish only in a climate where the first is general . |
| 6 | While DUC members individually might have supported various other political campaigns such as CND and the anti-nuclear movement , they saw that success against uranium mining in Donegal would result only from a single-issue , locally-based and respectable campaign : ‘ The DUC was trying to get the support of the local community , was trying to get the County Council on their side and this was n't going to happen if you 're gon na have people running around burning JCBs ’ . |
| 7 | If she had spoken in charity to an unhappy invalid it had also been negligent of a larger truth : that they were representative of two very different principles — ; principles that might meet only in an hour of need , or in honest confrontation with one another . |
| 8 | This would apply only to a juvenile already in care of a local authority and then found guilty of a further imprisonable offence , and would be for a fixed period of not more than six months . |
| 9 | However , because this requirement will apply only to an employee-holder of such shares , and not other holders , the Revenue usually refuses approval of a scheme where the scheme shares attach such a restriction , unless para 12(3) can be satisfied . |
| 10 | Watch makers were forced at one time to accept either bread tickets or else take payment in cheap watches which they could sell only at a loss . |
| 11 | That can lead only to a number of results . |
| 12 | Its loss can lead only to an invasion of imports when the recession ends and the market picks up . |
| 13 | Given that the Secretary of State 's own appointed governor , the former chief inspector , Eric Bolton , said that the situation at the school is ’ unsatisfactory ’ and that the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers said that pupils and staff at Stratford school are ’ disturbed ’ , does the Minister recognise that the Secretary of State 's statement last week that Stratford school was ’ operating satisfactorily ’ had no basis in fact and could come only from a Secretary of State who sought to evade , rather than take , the responsibility which was plainly his ? |
| 14 | Phoebe could remember no details , could recall only with an effort that was profitless , the numbing passivity that had fallen on her . |
| 15 | Such a cat can seem only like a toy . |
| 16 | In contrast to the United States , executive control of the House of Commons via party loyalty has become so thorough that such committees can operate only within a context defined by the executive . |
| 17 | Lloyd had persuaded Coleridge to take him as a pupil at £80 a year ; but when his wealthy father , a member of the banking family , insisted that the arrangement could last only for a year , Coleridge 's expectation of a regular income suddenly vanished , and Lloyd eventually settled with him as an occasional lodger , not a pupil . |
| 18 | British critics fear such a member may care only for a section of his constituents . |
| 19 | In 1370 , when the war had resumed , the clerical representatives would agree only to a grant of two tenths instead of the three sought ; the prelates , however , had already conceded three tenths , and their pressure and that of royal delegations eventually coerced the proctors of the lesser clergy into acquiescing , once again in the expressed hope that their grievances would be remedied . |