Example sentences of "be [verb] only [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between the two countries is that the formal wording of the United States Constitution can be amended only by an extraordinary process , i.e. , one that goes beyond the provisions employed for amending the ordinary law . |
| 2 | Clearly , such a drastic change in the law could be undertaken only by the legislature . |
| 3 | This facility can be started/stopped only by the LIFESPAN Manager . |
| 4 | In his Beverly Hills suit and hand-painted 1950s tie , Kaufman looked like a divorce lawyer in ‘ LA Law ’ ; his presence at the Tory Party 's autumn festival could be explained only by the need to earn a crust ; he had been invited by the BBC , no doubt , to comment on the proceedings . |
| 5 | To expect a full grammatical statement of BSL after a research history which can be traced only to the mid-70s , would have been optimistic in the extreme . |
| 6 | A ‘ money bill ’ , one dealing essentially with financial matters , can be delayed only for a month . |
| 7 | This information will be given only to the parents of the individual child . |
| 8 | An answer to this , I shall argue , so far as an answer is possible at all , can be given only through an analysis of experiences from the point of view of the one who has the experiences ; i.e. through a phenomenological analysis of the modes of experiencing . |
| 9 | Despite the received view that everyone was watching films like The Battleship Potemkin , Lenin 's vision began to be realised only at the end of the 1920's . |
| 10 | ‘ A good , strong ruler , ’ the Prior commented , ‘ but as a man , well … ’ his voice trailed off , leaving the silence to be broken only by the sound of his sandalled feet pattering against the slabstones . |
| 11 | Naturally , such allegations will rarely be made , although the defence of " justification " requires them to be proven only on the balance of probabilities , and not on the higher criminal standard , " beyond reasonable doubt " . |
| 12 | Topics are likely to be examined only from the viewpoints held within the individual disciplines . |
| 13 | In the end , de Gaulle could only secure peace at the expense of a series of humiliating concessions to the FLN — concessions which could be justified only on the grounds that they averted the yet higher costs of not making them . |
| 14 | The expense involved will , however , be justified only by the demonstration of a good long term outlook after such a management approach . |
| 15 | Alternatively , when the costs of transport are high and local production can be justified only by the creation of a single plant , competitors may choose to collaborate , as in the case of consortium oil refineries . |
| 16 | The range of the signals depends on conditions , but in any case , they can be received only in the area served by an electricity substation . |
| 17 | The board can also be used for incline/decline work with barbells and dumb-bells , and does not have to be regarded only as a piece of equipment for exercising the stomach . |
| 18 | At the level of the Governor of the state to which that city belongs , the riot will be regarded only as a nuisance ; above that the king or the premier will hardly be aware of it at all , and to the whole world , it will be trivial . |
| 19 | But Living Wills should be regarded only as a general indication of our wishes . |
| 20 | This interpretation of trust law is founded on well established authorities and could probably be overturned only by a decision of the House of Lords . |
| 21 | Even if it is possible , the individual may be assigned only to the broadest concept of ‘ racial stock ’ . |
| 22 | Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ . |
| 23 | Even these can be criticized only upon the basis of other assumptions . |
| 24 | arguments , all of which can be developed only by a long mental soak in the subject . |
| 25 | Thus the thickest potential net pay can be expected to be developed only in the latter situation ( see Figs. 25 and 26 ) . |
| 26 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 27 | Although the obligation to provide instruction about maintenance is to be limited only to the first occupier , it is likely that subsequent purchasers will require the information to be passed on every time the property is sold . |
| 28 | The practical accuracy of this result , which is central to the determination of the fine structure , constant , is believed to be limited only by the residual dissipative current due to hopping through localised states . |
| 29 | The clinical usefulness of the polymerase chain reaction thus seems to be limited only by the power of our imagination in identifying specific targets . |
| 30 | He tried , though perhaps without much success , to restrict the use of chrism to bishops , and , making a further distinction between royal and episcopal consecration , he ordered that kings , like emperors , were to be anointed only on the arms or shoulders and hands , not on the head . |