Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joint ventures account for only a small part of Hungary 's company start-up boom . |
| 2 | American and European paintings , prints and sculptures , account for only a fraction of the museum 's 100,000 objects which range from American Indian material , African art , and musical instruments , to Nabataen sculpture from Jordan , Egyptian and classical antiquities , Asian art , costumes , and 300 American , English and Continental portrait miniatures . |
| 3 | While this represents an important development in Parliament 's powers of scrutiny , non-departmental bodies account for only a small part of the work of these committees which are quite unable to exercise anything like detailed oversight . |
| 4 | However , the particles in even the most opaque Cytherean clouds account for only a tiny fraction of the atmospheric volume occupied by the cloud , and therefore the cloud particles , as on the Earth , are minor atmospheric components . |
| 5 | A major difficulty is that the inert gases account for only a small fraction of the volatiles known at the surfaces and in the atmospheres of the three planets , where the volatiles almost entirely consist of CO 2 , H 2 O , N 2 and O 2 , or of compounds derived from them such as carbonates , hydroxy-silicates and nitrates . |
| 6 | As yet , these schools account for only a small amount of annual expenditure — 3 million in 1989–90 — but the government 's expenditure plans provide for this sum to increase ( to 20 million by 1991–2 ) as more schools choose to ‘ opt out ’ of LEA control and financing ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.1 ) . |
| 7 | The reasoning in the lawyer/client cases can not automatically be transferred to the financial services area because of the particular nature of the lawyer/client relationship including the fact that in order to prove a breach of confidence a client might be forced to forfeit the lawyer/client privilege , and that the very restrictive Law Society rules provide for only a very limited role for the Chinese wall where law firms amalgamate and the clients consent . |
| 8 | The concept of entities that appear for only an instant and then disappear was used by Buddhists to prove that all is merely appearance and that absolute reality does not fall within the domain of the intellect . |
| 9 | Females associate with only a single male during times when they are most likely to conceive . |
| 10 | Marinate for only an hour or so in the same marinade as before or use just olive oil , lemon juice salt and freshly ground black pepper . |
| 11 | In addition he has stressed the crankish nature of many of its supporters and the fact that it drew that support from only a very small section of the working class — even though they may have formed a significant proportion of the BUF 's small membership of between 5,000 and 40,000 members throughout the 1930s . |
| 12 | This can be either broad , with the full expression of human feeling common only to the Labour movement , or it may be narrow , niggardly and mean with only the objective of shirking responsibility , and never carrying out in the spirit of those laws work which could be applied to make the conditions of the working people easier , and the lives of their children brighter and better . |
| 13 | Residential homes and hospitals cater for only a minority of dementia sufferers and this situation is likely to continue for the foreseeable future . |
| 14 | 100 students , cater for only a quarter . |
| 15 | Britain has a fairly long winter , and I know of only a few very hardy souls who are willing to go gold prospecting during this season . |
| 16 | Instead they refer to only a sub-section of these behaviours , a sub-section which is more likely to be committed by young , poorly-educated males who are often unemployed , live in working-class impoverished neighbourhoods , and frequently belong to an ethnic minority . |
| 17 | Marschalek ( 1983 ) has noted that children generally attend to only a portion of the information contained within a stimulus whereas adults include more dimensions as well as a consideration of structural aspects . |
| 18 | INVESTORS , traders , bankers and managers often operate with only a partial model in mind about why they are doing whatever it is they are doing , and what principles lie behind it . |
| 19 | The Protestants are scarcely measurable and the Catholics ( 3pc ) amount to only a quarter of the proportion who went 20 years ago . |
| 20 | They guess at only the tip of the iceberg of what is going on in these firms . |
| 21 | At the other extreme , where males generally mate with only a single female , the sexes are much more similar in size and appearance . |
| 22 | Go with only a note ? |
| 23 | However , these are limited in number and apply to only a small proportion of all Forestry Commission lands ( Hall 1974 ) . |
| 24 | In particular , multilists provide rapid access when the file has many different descriptors that apply to only a few records , as in this case each chain will be short . |
| 25 | With the naked eye , or with binoculars , it is possible to distinguish between two stars which differ by only a tenth of a magnitude . |
| 26 | Yet it remains true that unless the typologies are elaborated beyond a mere classificatory and descriptive labelling of different situations — that is , by attempting to specify the conditions under which each type develops — they remain at only a very preliminary stage of theorising . |
| 27 | One approach — more like traders in financial services — is where they work almost independently , having their own cluster of clients and work with only a secretary . |
| 28 | There are undoubtedly great advantages to the student if a staff member transmits his ideas and experience to only a few individuals at a time in a tutorial session . |