Example sentences of "be [vb pp] only [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the canonist collectors and commentators at Bologna ( and probably also in Rome from time to time ) were the Englishmen , Gilbert and Alan , whose importance in canon law scholarship has been recognized only in recent years . |
| 2 | ( The chords shown in Example 83 are limited only to those with the root on C , and are mostly given with notes in close formation . |
| 3 | The British Standard BS 6652 for child resistance is granted to specific combinations of bottle and cap and has been given only for some makes of closures on BS 1679 bottles , which are the ones we use in this hospital . |
| 4 | Cyclosporin concentrations are checked only in those patients who are receiving additional treatments that may have an appreciable interaction with the immunosuppressant . |
| 5 | These manuals are intended only for those people closely involved in setting up and managing a LIFESPAN system . |
| 6 | Some researchers maintain that many of these principles are genetically programmed , and it is this which explains how it is possible for speakers of the same language to develop similar and highly complex knowledge of their language , even though , in the normal language learning situation , they will have been exposed only to limited and random samples of speech . |
| 7 | In any event , Ermold assumed that the parents would relish the description of their son , and be amused by the contrast between the adults ' formality and the child 's spontaneity ( though such licence may have been permitted only to under-sevens ) . |
| 8 | Many caves are located only after diligent search . |
| 9 | He was behaving more and more as an autocrat , The State of emergency inherited form Mossadeq had been lifted only on 1956 . |
| 10 | They are moved only in exceptional circumstances . |
| 11 | Suitable candidates for M are a dynamic-programming-type alignment score ( 16 ) of π , π m or a simpler and faster scoring scheme based on the numbers of pairs of mapped probes which are adjacent in π m and are separated only by unmapped probes in π . |
| 12 | Aware of the way 25,000 Boer farmers had been defeated only by ten times their number in the war of 1899–1902 , during his boyhood in South Africa , Dudley Clarke was able to interest his chief , Sir John Dill , Chief of the Imperial General Staff , in the idea and it was put to the Prime Minister . |
| 13 | Sexuality , he pontificated , was one of ‘ the areas of social life that are revealed only to medical men , in the hope that they may be in a position to suggest some mode of relief ’ . |
| 14 | Despite continued inflation such small increases in remuneration have been conceded only after many years of negotiation . |
| 15 | It should be noted that data on the ethnic origin of babies who died of the sudden infant death syndrome are collected only in certain areas , and the definitions used are inconsistent , being based either on mother 's country of birth or her own report of her ethnicity . |
| 16 | We found it had been secured only by one-inch-long wood screws . |
| 17 | At the Earthlight manse , women had been attended only by female servants , and men by male servants . |
| 18 | If the answers to problems are sought only in empirical research the ‘ broader perspective ’ remains unrealized . |
| 19 | Some lexical units , even though established , are selected only in specific restricted contexts , or in contexts where the primary units would lead to abnormality . |
| 20 | Recommendations for exemptions are made only for experienced and distinguished teachers of law who have established links with the profession . |
| 21 | Acid cleaners are accessible to and are used only by senior supervisors . |
| 22 | Care should be taken to ensure that such guidelines are used only in appropriate cases . |
| 23 | Care should be taken to ensure that such guidelines are used only in appropriate cases . |
| 24 | These publish news and views of a specific industry , trade or profession , and usually are bought only by those sectors . |
| 25 | Previously , foreign investment had been allowed only in specially created joint venture companies , to a maximum 49 per cent stake , while repatriation of profits had been accomplished only through complex barter deals . |
| 26 | I was trying to do , single-handed , what in previous days would have been accomplished only by several women in a family all working together . |
| 27 | A UDC would undermine the ability of the elected local councils to implement the 1976 Docklands Strategic Plan , which had been agreed only after many years of discussion and debate ( Leaders of the London Boroughs of Greenwich , Lewisham , Newham , Southwark and Tower Hamlets , 1979 ) . |
| 28 | The shutters protecting the sculpture are opened only during Holy Week . |
| 29 | Because of the side effects , this treatment programme has been used only in young , fit individuals with locally advanced disease . |
| 30 | The Canadian authorities , in the meantime , asked for forty-five cuts to be made , which Nicholson refused to do , and so by the end of 1971 the film had been shown only in selected cinemas in America and even there , the reaction had been mixed . |