Example sentences of "only [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , the taboos have been the source of much mirth : the stand-up 's traditional reliance on smut and mothers-in-law could only exist in a largely sex-negative society . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The engine stopped and for a moment there was the silence that can only exist in a forest . |
| 4 | But then what else could she have expected as she was only clad in a thin night-gown . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | died as , whatever and they went to his eldest brother he said he had to burn all because he only lived in a small flat , he and his wife and two children and they 'd got no room for them to so he had to burn them . |
| 7 | But she had only checked in a very recent volume . |
| 8 | For I have only to hear an opera discussed , I have only to sit in a theatre , hear the orchestra tuning their instruments — oh , I am quite beside myself at once . |
| 9 | Historical background is only compressed in a monograph ; biographical material may be more extensive in other sources ; the painter 's contemporaries will not receive much attention , and may be slighted . |
| 10 | ‘ I only moved in a couple of years ago . |
| 11 | The legal position in relation to the ag arrangement is uncertain since it is not expressed to provide it for in the will of Mrs who is , who is the very kindly elderly neighbour who is the landlord , but is only contained in a letter of Mrs from whom I have not heard in evidence . |
| 12 | This raises the possibility that a mechanism other than substrate diversion is involved or that the various eicosanoids arise from different cellular sources and substrate diversion only occurred in a cell capable of synthesising LTB 4 but not LTC 4 . |
| 13 | It is even of importance to him what the moral tone of the whole society is — shocking as it may seem to libertarians to raise this issue — because freedom and individual diversity can only flourish in a society where there is a general recognition of their worth . |
| 14 | For the rest of the decade the working classes were only depicted in a small number of undistinguished films which celebrated or exploited the skills of particular groups of workers . |
| 15 | If the word " real " in the sense of " actual " or " actually existent " has any discernible function at all , then it is only to indicate in a roundabout way that a certain proposition , or propositions , are actally true ; and " true " , as we have just seen , is itself eliminable as a propositional predicate . |
| 16 | She had made it halfway before deciding to come up for air , turning her face upwards as she broke the surface only to collide in a tangle of arms and legs , with a strong , masculine body . |
| 17 | The genes producing these peptides are quite distinct but it is not clear whether both peptides are produced in all L cells , as dual localisation is only seen in a proportion of them . |
| 18 | ( This exchange system enabled some universities to establish very large collections of theses , but it was very costly , since it depended on the production of multiple copies of theses , and the practise was only operating in a small number of American universities by the start of Worl War II . |
| 19 | Due to the pilot nature of the scheme it is only operating in a few selected areas initially , which is why your parish has not been contacted . |
| 20 | Use of the explanatory framework provided by his ‘ indefinite ’ science , together with the application of the resolutio-compositive method to particular observed phenomena , can only result in a hypothesis about its unobserved generative causes . |
| 21 | Deviation from such norms and mores will not only result in a social storm around both the adult and child concerned but may interfere with the child 's normal development according to normal modes of life and upbringing — in other words may affect libidinal development as this must be expected in our culture . |
| 22 | Butler thus agrees with BRS to the extent that both cases see the battle of the forms as an exchange of counter-offers , which can only result in a contract when one side makes an unconditional acceptance , either intentionally , or in error . |
| 23 | In principle , no , we only act in a consultative and advisory way . |
| 24 | Argument will only grow in a large organization if it is actually encouraged , and if the example is given from the top with courteous listening and praise for differences of view . |
| 25 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton the Minister for Education and Housing at the Scottish Office not only ascended in a ‘ cherry picker ’ with the Principal to uncover the Napier University sign at Merchiston but also unveiled a plaque and addressed the crowd , praising the contribution of the Scottish ‘ Techs ’ to Scottish education and to the local and national economies . |
| 26 | Of course , the truth about how he has done it will probably only emerge in a ghosted autobiography that will cost some newspaper a king 's ransom . |
| 27 | The plain infinitive ( without to ) is only used in a verbal , never in a nominal function . |
| 28 | But in this case , Y will , like D , permute with C ; thus from ( 25 ) the modal matrix of A may be written XY , while ( 26 ) and ( 29 ) require unc so that B shares the modal matrix XY with A. Note that here , E need not be diagonal , so that B can be defective ; but non-zero elements in the superdiagonal of E can only occur in a submatrix corresponding to a scalar submatrix in C. |
| 29 | Indifferently magnificent , it sneered back at my eager camera lens , which could only fit in a pitiful few floors . |
| 30 | The inroads made into the male strongholds are small , but the progress is remarkable when one sets sixty years now against preceding millennia in which western world women only existed in a family and under male domination . |