Example sentences of "only [be] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years . |
| 2 | The European Communities ( EC ) suspended a trade and co-operation agreement which had only been initialled on June 8 , and withdrew an invitation to Romania to attend a meeting of the G-24 nations in Paris in July . |
| 3 | However , it has only been tested on one domain . |
| 4 | Indeed , in extreme cases , it may be sensible to organise some form of help even before the nursing expert reports to avoid the argument that such help has only been obtained on the expert 's advice . |
| 5 | Chemical weathering is also probably associated with the mechanism which so far has only been investigated on clay:rich rocks , and it may be restricted to such lithologies . |
| 6 | When fly and lure fishing only are allowed on a water there is no other way that fish can be caught . |
| 7 | Treatment for Thrush can only be obtained on prescription from your doctor or clinic . |
| 8 | Bookings can only be accepted on the payment of a non refundable non transferrable deposit of £5 per person . |
| 9 | The same reasoning does not apply where the money is sent by a stranger , in which case it can only be accepted on the terms upon which it is sent . |
| 10 | The competition is open to readers of 'Small Gardens ' and entries will only be accepted on the entry coupon provided . |
| 11 | Arable crops can only be grown on any significant scale on the comparatively small areas of grade 1 and 2 land . |
| 12 | Lucerne , on which Young set such high hopes , could only be grown on deep soils or on irrigated land , and there it was to produce a minor revolution . ’ |
| 13 | One swim I know on the Hampshire Avon near Ringwood can only be fished on a quiet day , when few other anglers are around . |
| 14 | In Stage II , however , resits may only be given on compulsory modules , normally including projects and dissertations . |
| 15 | There is an exemption limit of £5,800 a year : so if during the year your total profits amount to £12,000 , tax would only be levied on £6,200 . |
| 16 | For many Keynesians , and certainly Keynes himself , the celebrated ‘ problem of money wages ’ was essentially one which could only be tackled on a political as opposed to an economic front . |
| 17 | For some departments in the University visits can normally only be arranged on certain weekdays ( typically Wednesday afternoons ) , and some faculties have preferred days for visits : Law ( Friday afternoons ) ; Medicine ( Wednesday afternoons only ) ; Music ( Thursday afternoons ) . |
| 18 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |
| 19 | Another distinction is between so called European type options which can only be exercised on the settlement day , and American type options which can be exercised at any time up to and including the settlement day . |
| 20 | Whether a single lift costing little more than half the balance lift is advisable or not can only be determined on working out the details of the site where it is required to be constructed and the conditions under which it would have to be worked . |
| 21 | Indeed , in my opinion , the privilege can only be justified on two grounds , first that it discourages the ill-treatment of a suspect and secondly that it discourages the production of dubious confessions . |
| 22 | This should give sufficient cut down of search so that word shape need only be checked on a relatively small number of words . |
| 23 | Château de Monte Cristo : It can only be visited on Saturdays and Sundays . |
| 24 | SMCC is allegedly telling customers SunSoft products can only be run on Sun hardware , making it harder for Sparcettes to snare the upgrade business . |
| 25 | the increased cost of the proposals and the fact that many will be unnecessary in the majority of firms means that the extra requirements should only be imposed on firms with a history of late or qualified reports etc . |
| 26 | in the case of Dahl 's study of New Haven , the power of the mayor can only be assessed on the basis of his own particular preferences for urban development and how he managed to secure these preferences in the decision-making process . |
| 27 | It was argued in that case that the taxpayer , however , could only be assessed on the income ( the gross income ) to the extent that he had power to enjoy it . |
| 28 | Such trust or distrust can only be based on an inference from personal facts about the witness and his circumstances . |
| 29 | A union of Baptists or of Methodists could be based on shared theological foundations ; a union of Nonconformists could only be based on the one thing they shared , their nonconforming status as English Protestant Christians outside the established church of the land . |
| 30 | An increase in the pension , though , may well only be based on the amount you have left . |