Example sentences of "only be [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent times , farm incomes in disadvantaged rural areas such as upland N E Scotland have only been maintained by a reduction in farm numbers , an increase in farm size and a fall in farm employment . |
| 2 | English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years . |
| 3 | This limitation has only been seen as a major crisis by Philips since the emergence of DVI compression-decompression . |
| 4 | I think it genuinely irresponsible that someone with my theatrical track-record has written a play about this internationally known theatrical figure yet it has only been seen by a few people . ’ |
| 5 | I believe that most men have an inborn desire to hunt and kill and that even today this primitive urge has only been eradicated in a small minority of the human race . |
| 6 | The first round of the presidential elections was notable for the fact that both main candidates attracted substantially more votes than their parties had received in the parliamentary elections , even though in the case of Constantinescu , the rector of Bucharest University , he had only been named as a compromise choice at the July 27 DCR Congress ( the NLP having left the alliance after its unsuccessful bid to persuade ex-King Mihai ( Michael ) to stand as a presidential candidate ) . |
| 7 | The Kitemark on a product will indicate that it has not only been made to a published specification , but that it has been independently tested by BSI as well . |
| 8 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 9 | She had only been daunted for a moment , however . |
| 10 | Exchange rates had only been adjusted as a last resort by deficit and surplus countries , and so were not used speedily enough to prevent prolonged payments imbalances and exchange rate crises . |
| 11 | Hypotheses , then , help us to refine theory by bringing more details into consideration in areas of research which may previously have only been explored in a rather sketchy way . |
| 12 | The vast majority of ornamental metalwork has only been studied from a typological standpoint on the basis of form and decoration . |
| 13 | Considering she 's only been sailing for a couple of days , she 's doing very well . |
| 14 | In fact , he has only been working as a professional for three years or so , and has had to learn his trade by trial and error . |
| 15 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 16 | It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision . |
| 17 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 18 | Many a case had only been solved by a combination of Morton 's flair and his own instincts . |
| 19 | Paatelainen had only been introduced as a substitute but he certainly made his presence felt in no uncertain manner with his 56th minute strike . |
| 20 | Vibrational excitation has only been reported for a few simple molecules in the gas phase , as shown in Fig. 5.8 , and vibrational structure may also be seen on some bands arising from electronic transitions . |
| 21 | He was struck by the discovery of a version of the enzyme which previously had only been reported in a clinical isolate of Salmonella typhimurium from New Zealand |
| 22 | When fly and lure fishing only are allowed on a water there is no other way that fish can be caught . |
| 23 | While the decision can not be impugned on the facts , it undoubtedly confirms the difficulties which inventor employees face where the employer 's sales can only be traced to a single main purchaser of the patented product . |
| 24 | The SD in the industrial town of Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia reported complaints in March 1941 from the poorer sections of the population that badges bearing a picture of the Führer could only be obtained through a sizeable contribution to Winter Aid collectors , and that there were too few to satisfy the demand . |
| 25 | Every nutrient that is required for energy , growth , repair , health , breeding and normal species behaviour can only be obtained from a diet that is balanced ; and there are many examples of things that go wrong when even traces of certain minerals are deficient in the diet . |
| 26 | Underpinning should only be accepted as a last resort when all other reasonable options have been considered . |
| 27 | Diversity can only be increased through a body set up with the specific task of creating and sustaining new media . |
| 28 | A circular aperture has an area proportional to the square of its diameter , so doubling the aperture diameter increases the image illumination by a factor of four ; to double the illumination , the diameter need only be increased by a factor of 2 . |
| 29 | This bond can only be broken by a crime , and that kind of crime brings it 's punishment . ’ |
| 30 | Central heating boilers should only be fitted to a flue that has been lined with a stainless steel flexible liner of about 150mm ( 6in ) diameter . |