Example sentences of "[verb] only [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that er , Woodrow could experience a full sense of self , to actually relate back to his himself , which er , Wilson er , experienced only as a child . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It would be dry and acid , revealed only to a chosen few . |
| 4 | By contrast , in the Rose Theatre case the judge seems to have been influenced to deny standing partly by the fact that the Trust had been formed only for the purpose of campaigning for the preservation of the remains of the theatre ; whereas the same judge in another case accorded standing to challenge a grant of planning permission to a representative of a snake-preservation society which had been active on the site in question for many years and had ‘ put money into it ’ . |
| 5 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Modulation to keys on the flat side is usually limited only to the subdominant , so that a chord progression something like the following is used : |
| 8 | Yachts wishing to use the canal are limited only by a maximum mast height of 80ft ( 24.5m ) . |
| 9 | Normal free-sparring in the training hall is limited only by the number of people there , so you can pick up bad competition habits through using space uneconomically . |
| 10 | Most people use their own bodyweight as a stretching aid , with the number of different ways to stretch being limited only by the imagination . |
| 11 | Officials describe the exodus as ‘ quota-driven ’ , meaning that numbers are limited only by the number of places made available in resettlement countries . |
| 12 | The survey — ‘ mapping the universe ’ — which Geller and Huchra began a few years ago is not yet complete but they have seen enough to conclude that ‘ the size of the largest structures we detect is limited only by the extent of the survey ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Since the Crown Court is a superior court , its power to punish is limited only by the maximum penalty set for the offence by an Act of Parliament . |
| 15 | Note that , if the key that has been requested is not present on the file , the unsuccessful search length is potentially limited only by the size of the file . |
| 16 | The clinical usefulness of the polymerase chain reaction thus seems to be limited only by the power of our imagination in identifying specific targets . |
| 17 | The creative element in such notes is limited only by the imagination of you , the user . |
| 18 | By permutations of these various incidents the number of possible classes is limited only by the total number of shares . |
| 19 | It does rather sound as though DTP is where you 're heading , and your choices are limited only by the memory in your machine and your budget — in that order . |
| 20 | The kinds of worlds that can be created are limited only by the multimedia software designed to generate them and the computer processing power available to bring them to life . |
| 21 | An open question invites a ‘ free ’ answer , recorded in full with the detail limited only by the space on the form . |
| 22 | Fighting ceased only with the advent of darkness — but the respite was to be brief . |
| 23 | A cheese resembling Camembert was the glory of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire , where records for cheese making go back to as early as 1280 ; and production ceased only in the mid-nineteenth century with the enclosure of the common fen . |
| 24 | He says : ‘ Tinnitus ( Latin for ringing ) is the name given to the subjective ( heard only by the person concerned ) experience of hearing sounds in the ear or head which have no basis of reality in the environment , that is to say , the sound can not be accounted for by vibrations coming from objects external to the patient . ’ |
| 25 | Colonel Lin Foh stepped from the bathroom , clad only in a towel around his waist . |
| 26 | Wrapped in a white towelling robe I was making my way back towards my room when I encountered a tall bearded man clad only in a towel . |
| 27 | When she returned to the bedroom , clad only in a towel , he was already in bed , and he smiled softly . |
| 28 | He permanently secretes a thick , transparent mucus about this body , which is clad only in an ancient blue-black robe . |
| 29 | All creatures communicate only in the manner to which they are instinctively and inwardly programmed . |
| 30 | Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe . |