Example sentences of "only [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The entrepreneurial characteristics of agency workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encourage agency working as an institution , can be likened to the entrepreneurial characteristics of self-employed , or labour only , subcontracting , building workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encouraged the growth of labour only subcontracting in the building industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s ( see Phelps Brown , 1968 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The requisite consent and authority to establish the relationship could only exist in the International Tin Agreement . |
| 4 | However , there are systems , notably in the public sector and non-profit sector in general , where revenue is only recognized in the accounts when the cash is received . |
| 5 | It has become commonplace to observe that the precious yet precarious Churchill Ian , stiff-upper-lip culture which only materializes in the midst of national adversity — underneath the arches , down in the air-raid shelters where Britannia enjoyed her finest hours — is something from which blacks are excluded . |
| 6 | In this brief precis of object relations theory I have started from the proposition that good objects are remembered and bad ones only hidden in the unconscious . |
| 7 | It worked out and then they only lived in the other half while they were doing it , was n't it ? |
| 8 | He was not often given words to speak , and had only to sit in the shade of his massive wings and stare into the middle distance and drift in his imagination to the four corners of the sky . |
| 9 | These monographs are not only binding in the member countries , but also carry the force of law in the British Commonwealth and in former colonies of France , Spain and Belgium . |
| 10 | Mills rejects pluralist accounts because they mistakenly assume that power is only located in the political system . |
| 11 | Only a parent has such a right , and even then the parent may only act in the best interests of the patient . |
| 12 | The direction of the force is obvious , it can only act in the line connecting the two point charges . |
| 13 | Do not overfeed , only place in the tank enough brine shrimp to match the size of the brood . |
| 14 | The 23-year-old Southampton player , ranked a lowly 176 in the world and only appearing in the tournament on the back of a wild card , rocked the world No 6 with 6–3 , 3–6 , 6–3 triumph . |
| 15 | The 23-year-old Southampton player , ranked a lowly 176 in the world and only appearing in the tournament on the back of a wild card , rocked the world No.6 with 6–3 3–6 6–3 triumph . |
| 16 | This disruption of spatio-temporal assumptions was not only paralleled in the world of art but also in philosophy , from the incorporation of time and space into the subject in Kant 's ‘ transcendental aesthetic ’ to Bergmann 's writings . |
| 17 | His journey is one of growth in patient awareness that the truth of the Gospel can not be enforced by social legislation but only fostered in the consciousness of individuals from whose hearts alone the reality of social salvation can spring . |
| 18 | Incidentally the pattern was to be repeated thirty years later : when under the Thirty Years Peace ( 446 ) Megara returned to the Peloponnesian League , and Aigina regained some kind of autonomy , Corinthian hostility towards Athens abated , only to revive in the mid-430s when Athens once again began to pressurize Megara , by the ‘ Megarian Decrees ’ , and to infringe the autonomy of Aigina ( Thuc. i.67 ) . |
| 19 | Some , the precursors of fungi , could only survive in the dark . |
| 20 | Fungus is rarely a primary invader of the fish , only occurring in the later stages of disease when fish are heavily infected by protozoa , flukes and bacteria . |
| 21 | promising life like frantic oracles ; and they only stopped in the morning , promised |
| 22 | and they only stopped in the morning , |
| 23 | At such times , I conclude , the soul can only hang in the dark , like a white bat , and let darkness have the day . |
| 24 | Because management is made up of virtually constant negotiation and adjustment it can only flourish in the context of other people . |
| 25 | The adults are viviparous , producing active microfilariae that rest in the lungs during the day only to appear in the peripheral blood at night when the culex mosquito host is active . |
| 26 | Tenor tree was only felled in the last ten years — and the stump can still be seen planted with pansies . |
| 27 | hidden criticisms that only appear in the interpersonal context : the classic ‘ utopian plan ’ , ‘ not feasible ’ , ‘ without economic basis ’ |
| 28 | As regards Olivetti 's OEM agreement with Digital Equipment Corp , a spokesman at Olivetti said , although DEC was selling Olivetti desktops throughout Europe — it sold approximately 60,000 in 1992 — portables were only included in the agreement at the start of this year ; much later than Olivetti decided to create a new line . |
| 29 | Provision for legislation for Marine Nature Reserves was only included in the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1987 at the last minute , after much pressure was brought to bear on Peers and MP 's by conservation bodies such as WWF and the Marine Conservation Society . |
| 30 | They will go to the concert , Beuno and Elizabeth and Hywel all together , and they will sing ; but not Elizabeth , who only hums in the house and who will be watching all the time to see if he is there . |