Example sentences of "be used only [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The services are used only by a minority of elderly . |
| 2 | It has to be emphasized that the pedagogical grammar should be used only with a language assistant who is a native speaker of the language . |
| 3 | As has been indicated , such machinery is established , but it is intended to be used only as a last resort . |
| 4 | Successive governments have stressed that imprisonment should be used only as a last resort yet , as we have seen , its use increased during the 1980s . |
| 5 | Descriptions based on comparison of a sound in the new language with a sound in the student 's own language should be used only as a last resort , since dialect differences in languages made such descriptions confusing and often valueless . |
| 6 | Some adopt the server/client approach — where one or other of the machines acts as a sort of networked machine , and can be used only as a file and print server . |
| 7 | A firearm is to be used only as a last resort . |
| 8 | Like Wainwright he hopes his route will be used only as a guide and people will branch off in parts to find their own little routes . |
| 9 | Tight coupling relations may be used only in a module of type PACKAGE and must refer to a PREFERRED , LATEST or SELECTED version of the referenced module . |
| 10 | The bricks were laid in alternate courses with stone or concrete , or were used only as a facing on a concrete core . |
| 11 | Sometimes elite is used only as a synonym for leaders . |
| 12 | It ‘ is the most difficult form of communication to learn , though since it is used only to a very limited extent , the skill is not essential to the handling of horses ’ . |
| 13 | There are important languages only spoken in their countries of origin — Japanese , for instance , and Korean ; some Pacific languages unrelated to each other or to any other linguistic group on earth : Ainu , for example , which is not spoken outside Hokkaido Island in Japan and has no relationship at all to Japanese ; and Gilyak , which is used only by a very few people on Sakhalin Island — a place known only as being the birthplace of the actor Yul Brynner , and near where the Korean airliner KE 007 was shot down in 1983 . |