Example sentences of "[coord] only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | views that hold a good life to be readily achievable only in certain well-defined types of social structure , or only in a society that works concertedly for the realization of certain higher human capacities and the suppression of baser ones , or only given certain types of economic relations among men . |
| 2 | This is the pencil that his kindergarten teacher possessed ; the pencil that made the blue ticks and the red crosses in the register ; the pencil that he wept for , that his mother went all over town to find , and failed to find , because they were all gone , or not made any more , or kept for teachers , or only imagined ; the pencil which he knew would make him happy , if only he possessed it , for evermore . |
| 3 | Before I knew what I desired , the desire itself was gone , the whole glimpse withdrawn , the world turned commonplace again , or only stirred by a longing that had just ceased . |
| 4 | Second , a court might interpret the rule restrictively so that it only permitted the replication of common law rights and duties or only operated in the regulatory sphere . |
| 5 | The restriction is made effective by inserting a condition that there shall be no permitted hours in the evening or only permitted hours in the evening . |
| 6 | Usually we do not know all the sites , and we do not know if they were all contemporary or only used seasonally . |
| 7 | Are they going to be your serviceable everyday sets or only used on special occasions ? |
| 8 | Slipping was registered when there was a distinct gastric pouch above the narrowing caused by the folds of the wrap , and disruption implied no visible folds or only distorted , loose folds at the oesophagogastric junction . |
| 9 | Forms which are not attached to the coast or only attached at one end seem to orientate themselves , some at right angles to the resultant like attached forms and some parallel to the resultant for reasons which remain uncertain . |
| 10 | Perhaps most remarkable of all was that this system of government was based on a written Constitution , drawn up by a group of politicians at the end of the 18th century and only altered on rare occasions since ( there had been 19 Amendments to the Constitution by 1920 ) . |
| 11 | Her mother had not noticed the incident and only turned to see what the matter was when Joyce began to scream . |
| 12 | French biologists ignored Darwin and only turned to a Lamarckian version of evolutionism in the 1880s . |
| 13 | As I told the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus and the ‘ Sporting Mauve ’ , the game went precisely to plan , yet they claimed we were totally outplayed and only secured victory because by the last quarter the ‘ five Chamden heroes ’ were completely knackered . |
| 14 | Those who talked to Harold Macmillan at this time were sure that this cold politicking did not enter his head ; that he was sincere and only wanted to do the best that he could for the Church . |
| 15 | No doubt to obtain a quick and smooth passage for his measures , he was less ambitious than in Hall 's ill-fated Bill of 1857 , and only sought power to purchase the outstanding 1.25 acres ( 0.50 ha. ) between Charles Street and Crown Street and 0.5 acre ( 0.19 ha. ) of St James 's Park . |
| 16 | Sammy was presently delivering one of our Nautor Swans to its Massachusetts owner ; many of the charter yachts were privately owned and only leased into Cutwater 's care on condition that we delivered them back to their owners for the northern summer . |
| 17 | She ran through the woods and only stopped when she reached the fence between the woods and the Botanical Gardens , which spread for a great distance along one side . |
| 18 | Tolbukhin 's forces advanced into the British Zone and only stopped when , on 9 May , they met troops of Gen Keightley 's 5 Corps . |
| 19 | Will and I ran like the wind and only stopped when we reached the river . |
| 20 | He sorted through Blanche 's things deliberately , one by one , and only stopped when he came to the building-society books she had purloined and Marek 's exercise book . |
| 21 | I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait . |
| 22 | Many years ago I was taking notes in a legal matter and only realised when I was transcribing them that police commissioner and police constable have the same initials . |
| 23 | Inoculation against smallpox had been practised since the 1720s , although it constituted a potentially lethal measure in itself and only achieved an erratic degree of success against a disease which probably claimed the lives of up to a quarter of the population throughout the century , and disfigured many of the survivors . |
| 24 | Financial constraints on investment were relatively unimportant and only developed subsequently as political concern with state enterprise deficits prompted efforts for greater commercialism . |
| 25 | But do n't let anyone get away with telling you that IBM 's problems are all the fault of the world economy : if Hewlett-Packard Co can grow at 20% in the current climate , if ICL Plc can remain in the black , if that former corporate basket case Unisys Corp , which compared with IBM started out under its present management with no advantages at all , can return to profit , IBM 's woes have to be acknowledged to be primarily the fault of the company itself , and only exacerbated by the economy . |
| 26 | Shortly after the sack , Stamford was granted its great Charter of Incorporation by the newly acclaimed Yorkist king Edward IV , which gave it considerable rewards for its loyalty ( an earlier charter of 972 , which was a post-conquest forgery , and only referred to the mint at Stamford , was still celebrated in 1972 ) . |
| 27 | On the other hand , if you have lost your partner and like two branches of a tree , you had grown together in kindness and only lived for each other through thick and thin , then talk inwardly to your partner . |
| 28 | The Minister replied : ’ Each application is carefully considered and only granted subject to equivalent or higher alternative safety arrangements being in place . ’ |
| 29 | Its use in self-defence is entirely secondary and only employed as a last resort . |
| 30 | She stopped putting her hand up and only answered questions when the awful voice spoke her name . |