Example sentences of "only [vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So I can only build on the west side .
2 The black and white lists provide fairly clear guidance to the kinds of clauses which are and are not deemed to violate Article 85(1) , and firms interested in co-operating with each other need only build in an R&D element to their agreement and consult the white and black lists to remove the threat of antitrust action ( ‘ grey clauses ’ require notification , but will be deemed as exempted if the Commission does not reply within six months ) .
3 According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle this ‘ virtual ’ photon can only exist for a time .
4 And the only thing that seems to stand in the way of doing anything commercially sensible with County Farms is that every time we deal with it , somebody says , ah , but it can only exist as an entity , let's keep it as that , let's pass it on to a trust , let's safeguard it , let's do this and that .
5 Its concern with adolescent love , and the way in which its idealism and purity can not evade the sullying effects of adult realities , paralleled Minton 's own fear of lost youth , his obsession with adolescence and desire for a love that could only exist in a state untrammelled by adult responsibilities .
6 The engine stopped and for a moment there was the silence that can only exist in a forest .
7 These relations , which are part of economic practice , can only exist in the context of a legal system which establishes individual agents as buyers and sellers .
8 ‘ In all my years of motor racing , I can only think of a couple of times when I mastered the machine as at the Nürburgring in 1968 .
9 He could only think of the confessional 's stock-in-trade : ‘ Did you find pleasure in it , Luke ? ’
10 Alter all , the swarm can only cover about a metre of ground every three minutes .
11 It was so much the sort of remark one could only make to a girl friend , but Rupert took it very nicely and said with only slightly forced heartiness , ‘ Jolly good , and it 's an excuse for me to have a better meal than usual , too .
12 The only obligations to transfer economic benefits which should not be taken into account are those which would not be considered in accordance with the going concern concept , that is , those which would only arise on the insolvency of the issuer and , where the issuer is expected to be able to comply with covenants on loan and similar agreements , those which would follow a breach of those covenants .
13 However , because ‘ newly-born ’ micelles can only arise at the expense of the preexisting ones ( there is a finite amount of water in the system that must be shared between all the micelles ) , the average radius of the micelles decreases .
14 He contended that pleasure could only arise from the satisfaction of an impulse and that therefore there could be no pleasure , and no possibility of satisfying a desire for pleasure , unless there were impulses towards things other than pleasure .
15 It must be emphasised that this legal position , whereby the company is exempted from certain rules of the host state , can only arise in a case in which services are provided without a place of business being established in the host state .
16 Those moths that settle there will probably only stay for a day and then continue higher still .
17 Breathless , she straightened up and said fiercely , ‘ You can only stay for a minute and then you must promise to go . ’
18 However campers should only stay for a night or two , be unobtrusive and sensitive to wildlife , and leave no litter .
19 ‘ We can only stay for an hour , ’ said Ginnie .
20 ‘ You can only stay on the planet for twenty-four hours . ’
21 He waited in growing irritation while a woman minutely described her missing cat , and impressed on the desk-sergeant that it would only answer to the name Roger .
22 It was successfully argued that the phrase " is or " could only relate to a customer when the soliciting is taking place .
23 The essence of the in vivo kinetic model is that polymer that is newly biosynthesized in an amorphous mobile form within the granule will only crystallize as a result of homogeneous ( spontaneous ) nucleation .
24 ‘ Be not cast down : if ye saw Him , who is standing on the shore holding out His arms to welcome you to land , you would not only wade through a sea of wrongs , but through hell itself , to be at Him . ’
25 As Cati left , she continued , to Sabina , who was sprinkling flour into a basin and whirling it into a dough with her fist , ‘ But you can only wait for the storming to pass … . ’
26 A body corporate may be a member of the committee ( r 6.150(3) ) but it can only act through a representative duly authorised in accordance with r 6.156 .
27 First , and probably of most practical significance , its actions will necessarily be those of its members or officers since , being a legal fiction , it can only act through the instrumentality of human beings .
28 ‘ Brochures can only act as a taster , that may also turn you off , ’ said .
29 Overburdened by commitments elsewhere , Unesco can only act as a clearing house for independently sponsored initiatives .
30 In a situation in which the Crown can only act on the advice of her ministers and where the Lords have been stripped of powers , the Commons is the pre-eminent part of Parliament .
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