Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] only [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you decide to stock the pond with fish , frogs may only become a nuisance in the spring , as unattached male frogs can cling onto the fish , causing them distress and have even been known to suffocate them by clamping onto their gills . |
| 2 | Bradford slowly got into the game and nearly took the lead when Mark Prudhoe could only parry a piledriver from Mike Duxbury , then punched the ball away from the onrushing Sean McCarthy . |
| 3 | Bradford slowly got into the game and nearly took the lead when Mark Prudhoe could only parry a piledriver from Mike Duxbury , then punched the ball away from the onrushing Sean McCarthy . |
| 4 | With open-loop control even lightly-loaded motors can rarely operate at speeds of more than 10000 steps per second and therefore the microprocessor need only issue a step command every 0.1 ms . |
| 5 | Prior to this service , pump manufacturers would only provide a test pump for a well if the customer agreed to purchase the unit or pay for repairs at the end of the test period . |
| 6 | The important thing to note is that such words will only have a value charge as part of their standard meaning , if the users of the language mostly have a certain shared attitude to what answers to the descriptive meaning . |
| 7 | And the porters will only leave a message in the piggyholes if she lives on campus . |
| 8 | Democratic rule can only become a reality when African people place their interests as individuals and communities before kinship bonds . |
| 9 | There is also a time bar : the Commissioners may only investigate a complaint if it is made within 12 months from the date the aggrieved person first had notice of the matter complained or , but a Commissioner has power to accept a complaint outside the time limit if he considers that there are special circumstances which make it proper to do so . |
| 10 | A judge should only find a child guilty of contributory negligence if he or she is of such an age as reasonably to be expected to take precautions for his or her own safety ; and then he or she is only to be found guilty if blame should be attached to him or her . |
| 11 | That last minute instruction from London said that planners could only form a view . |
| 12 | BTEC had to call on FE colleges to create closer working relationships with schools than most existing links provided — and the Council would only authorize a school to run a First Diploma course if it was satisfied that it could provide not only teachers with experience in working in business or in industry but also specialized accommodation and equipment . |
| 13 | Removal of 2000 m during the Permian would only require a rate of 53 m per million years . |
| 14 | Your council will only provide a Building Regulations Approval Notice when Full Plans are deposited , so you will have to use this method . |
| 15 | That prompted judge Robert Watson from the USA to interject : ‘ Judges can only score a foul if it is reported to them by the referee . ’ |
| 16 | Your release may be 600 words but , if the editor can only print a story of 400 , the easiest means of editing is to cut the last part of the story . |
| 17 | A nuclear war could only last a matter of days and would be fought with the weapons that were in the hands of the military at the time ; there would be no question of re-supply , so British operational independence would not be jeopardized by buying US missiles . |
| 18 | Clever compositional tricks would only trap a fraction of the space and diminish the distance . |
| 19 | It is suggested that this is an addition to a breach of CA 1985 , s263 which provides that the vendor can only make a distribution out of profits available for the purpose . |
| 20 | If economists can only incorporate a bit of psychology , they 've got it made . |
| 21 | The result of the provisions relating to duration is that the owner of the right can only have a maximum of 10 years to exploit the design commercially . |
| 22 | Harry may only have a walk-on part at Birdland , but he 's still the star of the show . |
| 23 | This provides that a court may only make a care order if it is satisfied that the child concerned is suffering significant harm . |
| 24 | A court can only make a care or supervision order if satisfied : ( a ) that the child concerned is suffering , or is likely to suffer significant harm ; and ( b ) that the harm , or likelihood of harm is attributable to : ( i ) the care given to the child , or likely to be given to him if the order were not made , not being what it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to him ; or ( ii ) the child being beyond parental control ( s31 ) . |
| 25 | Whatever the merits of this analysis of the structural location of people in production , these positions can only form a foundation for the processes of status , closure and reproduction which transform these structural relationships into a lived reality of social divisions . |
| 26 | Also , some squares in the pattern may only match a square on the edge of the board . |
| 27 | The tribunal will only allow a trader 's appeal against such a direction if it considers that Customs could not reasonably have been satisfied : for example , if Customs have ignored a relevant matter or if they have taken an irrelevant matter into account . |
| 28 | This leaflet can only include a selection of the topics covered by the Environmental Charter . |
| 29 | Indeed , Leonard can only recall a volume of the Russian writer Gogol on her shelf , by which she presumably kept in touch with her own more distant — if painful — affiliations , though influencing Leonard , perhaps , unconsciously , with Gogol 's sense of fantasy and comic genius — as well as his need to travel . ) |
| 30 | Moreover , Unix can only recognise a maximum of 1,024 devices and it does n't support multiple volume files . |