Example sentences of "be [vb pp] only at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These characteristics are the use of large columns to divide nave and choir from the aisles ; piers are used only at the crossing and then have slender clustered shafts . |
| 2 | Syria has massive internal problems and most observers consider that apparent domestic calm has been bought only at the cost of severe repression of popular opposition to the country 's participation in the war . |
| 3 | The attractive plants flower for one week in late June/early July and are found only at a few sites in the New Forest . |
| 4 | Despite the received view that everyone was watching films like The Battleship Potemkin , Lenin 's vision began to be realised only at the end of the 1920's . |
| 5 | One difficulty with testing recognition memory is that inferences might be made only at the time of the recognition test . |
| 6 | REMEMBER — IN BRITAIN , IMAX CAN BE SEEN ONLY AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY , FILM AND TELEVISION , BRADFORD |
| 7 | Certain ‘ representatives of the Afghan people ’ would be admitted only at the second stage of the conference and they would need to accept the decisions of the conference . |
| 8 | And Charlotte was suddenly aware of him as a person , and by no means an unintelligent person , either ; but above all a vital presence , to be ignored only at the general peril . |
| 9 | Some issues can be tackled only at a European level . |
| 10 | However , it must be recognised that at the current level of terrorist threat , full accompaniment of all patrols could be achieved only at the expense of aborting necessary anti-terrorist operations with a consequent increase in terrorist activity . |
| 11 | In a more explicitly theoretical paper , Lavandera ( 1982 ) presents the general argument that syntactic variation can be studied only at a superficial level if the analytic method does not take account of the use which speakers make of variation for stylistic and discourse purposes ; frequently they exploit subtle differences in meaning of the kind which ( for example ) Weiner and Labov deliberately simplify . |
| 12 | Moreover these inadequate wages were often months in arrears , and were paid , at least in the earlier years of the century , not in cash but in tickets which could be cashed only at the Navy Office in London . |
| 13 | The size of the palazzo , and the intricacy of its design ensured a very long building period , the main staircase being completed only at the end of the century , after Alessi 's death . |
| 14 | Phosphorus concentrations were measured only at the four sites listed . |
| 15 | Whereas a sales tax is collected only at the point of final sale to the consumer , VAT is collected at different stages of the production process . |
| 16 | In assimilation , by contrast , the environment is incorporated only at the level of comprehension the child has attained at any given stage ( Furth 1969 : 14 ) . |
| 17 | In contrast , garam masala is used only at the end of cookery , to add voluptuous scent and flavour , revitalising and extending flavours which have been dulled by heat . |
| 18 | But this explanation is achieved only at the cost of excluding a very wide range of other factors , and offers us no coherent , integrated answer to the question ‘ What causes the peasant to observe this ethic ? ’ — a question that can not really be answered in this methodology . |
| 19 | These series carry pages which are common to all editions and other pages which are aimed only at the small circulation areas . |
| 20 | And then a dim light opened out ahead : their boots crunched on pebbles and they emerged from a small cave whose entrance was uncovered only at the lowest of low tides . |
| 21 | Competition on price was used only at the margin to win benefits for patients , for example in awarding waiting list contracts . |
| 22 | Whereas in Britain ( and Sweden ) , the state controlled the Church , feudalism had ended well before it generally disappeared elsewhere in Europe , and manhood suffrage had been extended to large sections of the population — unlike most continental countries where it was attained only at a later date , sometimes not until the early part of the present century . |
| 23 | The result was , however , that the most important change in Roman life was observed only at a superficial level . |
| 24 | Although the struggle took place outside the formal boundaries of local politics and the council was involved only at the margins , it forced unemployment onto the agenda , much to the advantage of Labour . |
| 25 | Acknowledging that austere fiscal policies introduced in July 1988 [ see p. 36698 ] were responsible for the fall , analysts noted it was achieved only at a cost of increased unemployment and bankruptcies . |
| 26 | We have already seen how the study of sequences of tone-units in the speech of one speaker can reveal information carried by intonation which would not have been recognised if intonation was analysed only at the level of individual tone-units . |
| 27 | Moreover , the election plan , Shamir said , was aimed only at the " inhabitants of Judaea , Samaria [ the West Bank ] and Gaza " ; PLO representatives and East Jerusalem Arabs could not be participants . |
| 28 | The Japanese unzipped the foot of the mainsail so that the boom was loaded only at the inboard and outboard ends . |