Example sentences of "[noun] [be] only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cost accounts are only prepared at the discretion of the directors of the company and are not a legal requirement . |
| 2 | The final contents of the budget are only revealed to the Cabinet the day before the Chancellor presents it to the House of Commons , when it is too late for any major changes . |
| 3 | Current models of reading development assert that the child 's phonological knowledge and skills are only brought into play after an initial visual stage , and are involved in conscious decoding from print to sound . |
| 4 | The company 's hotels are run as autonomous units , and their operations are only co-ordinated to a limited extent . |
| 5 | If European governments can display the credible threat to back Airbus if necessary , Boeing shareholders are only going to lose by an unsuccessful price war . |
| 6 | The Council 's role does not seem to have changed drastically under the Yorkists , although its activities are only revealed to us obliquely in the records . |
| 7 | ‘ To reduce the problems of air pollution , the company has adopted the practice of layering the coal bunkers on the locomotives so that the limited supplies of dry steam coal are burnt at Llanberis and on the lower reaches of the line , and the Warwickshire coals are only fired above Hebron Station . |
| 8 | But Mr Soley defended the policy in an interview with the Guardian : ‘ The problem is most acute in rural areas , such as the South-west , where there is a growing problem of ghost villages where 70 per cent of the houses are only occupied at weekends or during the summer , ’ he said . |
| 9 | These checks are only justified if the person is likely to be handling large sums of money or to be exposed to the possibility of bribery . |
| 10 | Lower level rules are only used if the standard grammar is unable to cope with the input . |
| 11 | I do find that most people who come out here on short contracts are only looking for a paid holiday . |
| 12 | A large supply voltage and phase resistance are only required when the motor is operating at high speeds . |
| 13 | Those note teaching are only required to pay for each day actually attended . |
| 14 | A One of the reasons our products are only sold through selected salons is because we believe that haircare needs the advice of a professional . |
| 15 | As with all incentive promotions , the rewards are only earned through increased business . |
| 16 | We tend to assume that significant rituals are only found in ‘ primitive ’ societies and in state ceremonies such as the Coronation . |
| 17 | In these cases , letter string combinations are only ruled out if they do not occur in the sample source . |
| 18 | If his growing army of fans are only writing to say they like Merton 's own TV series , then they are either shy or lying . |
| 19 | Many infections are clinically inapparent , and the characteristic nodules are only discovered incidentally at necropsy . |
| 20 | Most of the signals are only noted subconsciously but , with a little effort , it is quite easy to become more aware of them so that , should a warning bell ring at the back of your head , you will know it is time to be careful . |
| 21 | The Main and Copy Databases are only accessed by batch processes and are not available directly to the lexicographers . |
| 22 | For this reason , and because there are very strict controls , animals are only used in research when absolutely necessary . |
| 23 | To avoid such unnecessary storage , compounds are only stored if the frequency of the least frequent word in the compound is above a threshold . |
| 24 | It is important to bear in mind the fundamental rule of agency law , that the acts of an agent are only binding on the principal if the agent had actual or apparent authority to perform those acts . |
| 25 | However anxious the Greek Government and other interests might be to proceed , we believe it is essential to ensure EC funds are only used to promote sustainable development which respects and enhances the environment of Greece and every other country of the Community . |
| 26 | ‘ But in these hard times , cars are only selling at the right price . |
| 27 | Some of the parameters are only used at . |
| 28 | Pills and potions are only going to remove the symptoms . |
| 29 | That is , syntactic and semantic influences are only considered between words that are within a local neighbourhood of each other . |
| 30 | For shares , capital gains and losses are only recognized when the share is sold , and this is directly under the owner 's control . |