Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] only " in BNC.

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31 Usually the statute would provide only limited guidance on the question of genuine grievance , and the court would have quite a bit of freedom in deciding which grievances were genuine .
32 Marked A to E , A being the slowest ( recommended for hard metals ) , and E the highest ( for wood ) , the dial is set before cutting begins , so that speed will increase only up to that setting : range is 0 to 2400rpm .
33 Depending on where they are standing a person looking from either side will see only a partial image or a totally dark and blank screen .
34 Depending on where they are standing a person looking from either side will see only a partial image or a totally dark and blank screen .
35 Prior exposure to the context will produce latent inhibition of the contextual stimuli themselves ( they will come to be reliably predicted by those cues that signal the start of an experimental session ) and so the context — stimulus association will form only slowly , if at all , when presentations of the target stimulus are begun .
36 Since that time the Halifax Building Society and the Bank of Scotland have become Appointed Representatives and in future will sell only Standard Life 's products through their branches .
37 Mr Pavlov said that the anti-crisis programme will work only if it is backed by all 15 republics .
38 This command will delete only one file at a time ; wild-cards are not permitted in the file specifier .
39 It can be of higher breaking strain than the kiteline itself , as weight and drag will have only minimal effect on performance .
40 Does the Minister agree that the best prospect of reaching and sustaining adequate inward investment will arise only when right hon. and hon. Members representing the people of Northern Ireland put aside their petty differences and continue talks with the Secretary of State to bring the violence in the Province to an end ?
41 The present chapter will constitute only a brief indication as to the relevant Acts and principles ; the reader needing more detail is referred to the Acts themselves and to Honoré 's work , or that of others .
42 This chapter will deal only with issues relating to description and assessment , leaving a discussion of different approaches to intervention until Chapters 9 and 10 .
43 29 Trust management expenses of non-resident and dual-resident discretionary trusts will be treated in a similar way except that this rule will apply only to those expenses allowed against income liable to tax in the UK .
44 As with an unsigned contractual document , this method of incorporation will work only if at the time of making the contract the buyer actually knew of the existence of the terms or else reasonable steps had been taken to bring them to his attention .
45 But the deal will work only if enough creditors , in Mexico 's case 90% of them , agree to new — that is , worse — loan terms .
46 This is important for the biologizing of consciousness : consciousness will evolve only if it improves the survival chances of creatures endowed with it ; and it will have survival value only if it accurately reports what is actually ‘ there ’ .
47 The club will open only at the weekends , but the organisers eventually hope to extend the service to seven days .
48 The female tsetse can bear only one baby at a time and in all her six month life , she can produce no more than a dozen .
49 False perception can arise only if the nervous system has spontaneous activity independently of any causative external object .
50 A regular exercise programme can require only 30 to 45 minutes , three times a week .
51 The first assumption is that each cell can accommodate only a single reach or segment of a stream , and the stream can therefore move through each cell only once .
52 A single bit-plane can hold only one binary digit in each position .
53 This chapter can give only a general survey , intended to place the various methods in some perspective .
54 Its loss can lead only to an invasion of imports when the recession ends and the market picks up .
55 Yet again , a big , comparatively heavy bait such as a lobworm , on a clean bottom may require only a few inches , for the sheer weight of this bait means the bream has to position himself quite close to it for the suck to be effective .
56 The hall should have only a minimum of furniture in it , and nothing too near to the bottom of the stairs which could increase her injuries if she fell .
57 AN ARTICLE in this magazine written by the editor must mean only one thing …
58 Accordingly , the difference between the groups on the generalization test might reflect only a difference in the amount of associative strength acquired in the aversive conditioning phase .
59 The RHA could foresee only a worsening of the position on mental health .
60 However , that leaves the galleries open to pressure , when they come to the Minister and make points such as that which I made at the beginning of my speech — saying , for instance , that last year the Tate gallery could buy only one work of art .
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