Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [pron] [be] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To have intercourse with a woman who is not your wife is , even today , not generally considered to be a course of conduct which the law ought positively to encourage and it can be argued with force that it is only fair to the woman and not in the least unfair to the man that he should be under a duty to take reasonable care to ascertain that she is consenting to the intercourse and be at the risk of a prosecution if he fails to take such care . ’ |
| 2 | Bearing in mind that they 're only six and seven in my class , er , and then talking erm , about how they travelled in cars , and and how many of them had ridden in the front seat , er , and most of them put their hands up , and I mean , the recommendation is that if you 're under twelve years of age , you should never ride in the front seat , and so on and so forth . |
| 3 | You should also bear in mind that it is only once you have reached the end of the road in trying to obtain satisfaction through the Bank 's own complaints system that the Ombudsman will be able to formally consider your complaint . |
| 4 | However , before taking any adverse moral position it should be borne in mind that it is only the existence of such risk takers that allow risk-averse ( such as those described in motives 4 to 5 ) investors to effectively sell the risk of their portfolios or investments . |
| 5 | AD then test the prediction that it is only the unpredictable component of DM that has an impact on real output in the way described in section 6.2 . |
| 6 | The fact that even companies with strong sporting images , such as BMW , have now decided to enter the UK 's fledgling diesel market is another indication that it is only a matter of time before there is a diesel option of every car currently on sale in petrol guise . |
| 7 | Disgusted Seagull Our best managers also happen to go by the rule that you 're only as good as your last game . |
| 8 | It is also assumed in this review that it is only officially sponsored programmes or policies that are being discussed . |
| 9 | Mr. Wall prays in aid that passage in the judgment of Lord Donaldson M.R. in support of his submission that it is only in the event of the court in this country finding that article 13 ( b ) is applicable to the case that it can properly consider the ‘ welfare interests ’ of the child in deciding whether to decline to order the return of the child to Australia . |
| 10 | Military equipment which had belonged to the East German army had been supplied to Turkey during the Gulf war in 1991 on condition that it was only used to defend the borders of Turkey or other NATO member-states . |
| 11 | On granting or transferring a restricted hotel licence or a restaurant licence in respect of any premises , a licensing board shall , if as regards the use of the premises for the provision of the customary main meals it appears to the board that it is only for the customary main meal at midday or only for the customary main meal in the evening that the premises fall within paragraph ( a ) ( ii ) of the restricted hotel licence or paragraph ( a ) ( ii ) of the restaurant licence as set out in Schedule 1 to this Act , insert in the licence a condition that there shall be no permitted hours in the evening , or that there shall be permitted hours in the premises only in the evening , as the case requires . |
| 12 | ‘ Does n't the Prime Minister realise that she is the only person in this whole shameful episode that ca n't make the excuse that I was only obeying orders , because she was the person giving the orders — and the orders are tyrannical . ’ |
| 13 | Now it does n't mean to say of course that there were only seventeen people in |
| 14 | ADD then tested the hypothesis that it is only unpredictable money growth that has an impact on real output by inserting actual money growth into the output equation in ( 6.14 ) for the periods t , t - 1 , t - 2 and t - 3 , and comparing the likelihood from this model with the model in equation ( 6.16 ) . |
| 15 | So the null hypothesis that it is only unpredictable monetary growth which influences real output can not be rejected . |
| 16 | It is also contingent upon the avoidance of the rationalistic fallacy that there is only one correct view of the institution . |
| 17 | They told chairman Michael Croucher that it was only by accident they had heard of the proposals and they were concerned that no-one had told them . |
| 18 | a bad scene that it 's only gon na be on certain jobs . |
| 19 | It was more than a legal victory for Taylor when the judge told the skinhead that it was only his brief 's eloquence that had saved him from prison . |
| 20 | This gives great emphasis to the contention that it is only through the teaching of the children that there can be any progress towards a better world , and by which the complete breakdown of man 's fragile and very young civilisation can be avoided . |
| 21 | I 'd heard from a sceptic that there were only six basic shots in surfing photography and everything else was just window dressing . |
| 22 | We had at least seven other buck sergeants and maybe a staff sergeant crewing airplanes which had been returned to us two or three month after the deal and at times we had as high as twenty aircraft in the squadron , that according to the er roster that you were only supposed to have twelve , but er nobody seemed to say anything about it and we did n't get any extra men , but there was at least six or seven men doing the work of master sergeants getting paid for , getting buck sergeant and staff sergeant pay for which I 'm very grateful . |
| 23 | Lamont was given a lower profile for the second week — prompting a Neil Kinnock joke that he was only allowed out at night . |
| 24 | In Gray 's Elegy there is also a ‘ hoary-headed Swain' , who addresses a ‘ kindred spirit ’ ( to the dead poet ) ‘ led by lonely contemplation ’ ; there may be other parallels , but it must be conceded at this point that it is only at the close of Hartleap Well that Wordsworth approaches closely to Gray 's verse movement : |
| 25 | I knew from that moment that it was only a question of time — and perseverance on his part — before he would be completely cured . |
| 26 | It is , without doubt , a contentious subject , but there is no doubt in the mind of this author that it is only in Champagne that all these elements combine , albeit precariously , with a special method of production , to produce a sparkling wine of such incomparable finesse . |
| 27 | Like all prisoners of circumstance , you will probably reflect a good deal on the whole subject of ‘ time ’ and of its strange habits of hanging , dragging , or running out too quickly , but if you decide to use and dominate it , instead of allowing it to dominate you , you will inevitably come to the conclusion that it is only wasted if it is thrown away , never when it is offered freely , as a gift of love . |
| 28 | Receiving for me always contained a degree of embarrassment that I am only now beginning to come to terms with . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the notion that it is only the left hemisphere that operates in a serial manner is not supported by the results of Gross ( 1972 ) , Niederbuhl and Springer ( 1979 ) and Polich ( 1980 ) all of whom found evidence of serial processing in both visual fields . |
| 30 | We must dump the debilitating notion that there is only one true way to fight the poll tax , whether through parliamentary or non-payment . |