Example sentences of "only [det] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He not only has room in his science for God ; he tries to create God using only some laws of physics , some simplifying assumptions , some outrageous extrapolations , and truly cosmic gall . |
| 2 | Suppose we can rescue only some prisoners of tyranny ; justice hardly requires rescuing none even when only luck , not any principle , will decide whom we save and whom we leave to torture . |
| 3 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |
| 4 | The criminal law defines only some types of violence as criminal assault ; it excludes verbal assaults that can , and sometimes do , break a person 's spirit ; it excludes forms of assault whose injuries become apparent years later , such as those resulting from working in a polluted factory environment where the health risk was known to the employer but concealed from the employee ( Swartz 1975 ) ; it excludes ‘ compulsory ’ drug-therapy or electric-shock treatment given to ‘ mentally disturbed ’ patients or prisoners who are denied the civilized rights to refuse such beneficial medical help ( Mitford 1977 ; Szasz 1970,1977a , 1977b ) ; it excludes chemotherapy prescribed to control ‘ naughty ’ schoolboys , but includes physically hitting teachers ( Box 1981b ; Schrag and Divoky 1981 ) . |
| 5 | We departed by the garden staircase , bringing with us only such articles of apparel and personal effects as could be worn or carried . |
| 6 | It had that rustic look which only many years of weathering can attain . |
| 7 | The rye hid him from the French rankers , and only those officers on horseback could see the Rifleman over the tall crop . |
| 8 | Mr Zaphiriou seems to state that the whole of the Treaty and all regulations are directly applicable in this country ( p 4 ) , yet sec 2 ( 1 ) of the European Communities Act , 1972 , makes it abundantly clear that only those rules of Community law , be they derived from the Treaty or the acts of the institutions , which are directly applicable under Community law have direct effect in this country . |
| 9 | But the success of review in some areas can lead to a keener awareness of its absence in others ; and however sophisticated the review process , it can affect only those dimensions of course management to which it is applied . |
| 10 | Consequently it is neither possible nor appropriate in a book of this kind to analyse all of the issues which currently preoccupy environmentalists-It will be necessary instead to limit our discussion to only those aspects of environmentalism which are immediately relevant to current social changes in rural England . |
| 11 | All depreciable assets would attract depreciation but only those assets with debt outstanding would produce , in effect , a charge to revenue for principal repayments . |
| 12 | Only those features of grammar and phonology which are contrastive — in other words , which are useful for determining whether what we are hearing at any particular moment is Jamaican Standard , JC , Standard English or LE — have been discussed . |